Jacey Bedford's Journal

I've seen mixed reviews, and I haven't always been a fan of Terminator movies, but I enjoyed this. Why? Well, largely because Linda Hamilton is baaack - and she's a badass. Once again, a Terminator has been sent back to kill a young Latina, Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes). Dark Fate seems to ignore the later Terminator movies and starts from the  end of Terminator 2, but some years later. Skynet never happened, but a new threat has arisen. John Connor is dead and his mother has become an expert Terminator terminator, though in doing so she'a a wanted woman in most of the USA. Grace (Mackenzie Davis) is not a Terminator, she's an enhanced human sent back to protect the Terminator's target, Dani. Arnie appears part way through the film, living a quiet life in a cabin in the woods with a family (not exactly his family, but an acquired one). He's becoming more humanised, and he's OLD, which is great on one level because Arnie looks better now than he did as a thirty-something muscle-bound hunk... though... do Terminators age or is it a trick? He's certainly mellowed, but Sarah Connor has a bone to pick. It's great to see a woman in her sixties playing the action hero thirty five years on from Terminator 1. Yay for Linda Hamilton