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Terminator Dark Fate-7/10
Massive upgrade over the last number of sequels. T3 was the last decent Terminator movie, imo. And a lot of that had to with the fact that they didn't try to reinvent the wheel and just made a chase movie with time traveling robots.
Dark Fate is better than T3 simply because it's much more violent thanks to the R rating. It is a direct sequel to T2 and the opening scene establishes that from the start.
This time, we get a different take on the machine sent back to protect our new female lead, Arnold's T800 gets a new layer added to its persona in a way that makes sense, and the movie returns to the feature chase scene feel of the first three.
The new Terminator, the Rev9, has some neat new abilities, and is a better terminator than the T-X in the 3rd one.
Acton sets are fun, loud, violent and bloody. The movie doesn't try to do what Genesis did with a bunch of time travel mumbo mumbo. It does create a new thread in the timeline, but it's not overly convoluted or confusing.
T2 is one of my fave films of all time. I'm glad it finally got a solid R rated sequel. Nothing will ever live up to the first 2 but they've finally made one that works and can maybe spin off a new series.
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