“Then you need to be ready.”

From Terminator: Dark Fate.

Twenty-two years after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) stopped Judgment Day from wiping out humanity, an enhanced soldier named Grace (Mackenzie Davis) is sent back from the altered future to find and protect Dani (Natalia Reyes), a young woman living in Mexico.  Shortly after Grace arrives so does the super advanced Rev-9 Terminator (Gabriel Luna) that’s been sent to kill Dani and change the future.  While Grace can fight him, she’s not strong enough to kill the Terminator before they can even leave Mexico City, so Grace and Dani find themselves left with no way out until Sarah Connor arrives with a carload full of weapons that disables the Terminator long enough for the women to escape.  Both Sarah and Grace distrust each other, but agree to work together to keep Dani safe when they discover that both women seem to be getting their unknown help from the same place.  Sarah, Grace, and Dani manage to get across the border into Texas on their way to Laredo where their mysterious helper lives, but their journey is further complicated by the Terminator who seems to get one step closer to successfully killing Dani every time he appears.  When the women finally locate their mysterious helper, they discover that it is the old Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from Sarah’s past who after completing his mission has been living a quiet life for twenty years, learning to sympathize with humans.  While Sarah wants nothing more than to kill the old Terminator all four come to an uneasy agreement to work together in order to keep Dani safe and alive in order to have a hope of standing against the new Judgment Day that the future now has in store for them.

The sixth installment in the Terminator series primarily ignores the storylines from Salvation and Genisys and instead follows the original trilogy.  The cast, both old and new, are easy to cheer for as they work well together in action and quiet.  There are funny moments scattered throughout the dialogue that helps to humanize the cast and new characters during the intense action.  While not the best of the series, Terminator: Dark Fate is also far from being the worst and will reward viewers with loads of action and Terminator-killing violence.

| Rated: R | Running Time: 134 minutes |Genre: action/sci-fi |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 6* of 10|Nudity: 2 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 7 of 10

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