This weekend’s movie was Terminator: Dark Fate which is probably my absolute favorite movie out of the entire Terminator franchise.

“Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.”

As with Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dark Fate doesn’t shy away from nudity, either male or female. And it starts so, so slowly. We start with the familiar scene of Sarah in the psychiatric ward, telling us about the nuclear war in August 1997. As this movie came out in 2019, we all know the future dreamed up by the first two Terminator movies obviously didn’t happen. So opening the movie with watching the T-101 come out of the ocean and shotgun young John was certainly a shock. And then, twenty years later, we’re taken to Mexico City, where we meet a naked woman who falls from a weird event on a bridge.

We then get a very nice scene with a brother and sister and their father at breakfast, on their way to work. And that’s honestly one of the very last slower, less threat scenes we get for quite some time. This movie just doesn’t stop, but all the action makes complete sense for the story.

It’s also honestly very, very refreshing to see the difference in Sarah Connor from the very first movie to now. It’s also really fantastic to see older actresses staring as action heroes. And also non-white, non-native English speakers as main characters in a franchise this huge.

So I won’t give away too much of this movie, other than to say it’s one of my very few five stars on my rating scale, which is as high as I rate things. I am extremely grateful a friend recommended this to me, as I’m ecstatic to rewatch it very, very frequently.

Terminator: Dark Fate. Directed by Tim Miller, Produced by James Cameron, performances by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, and Diego Boneta, Paramount Pictures and Skydance and Twentieth Century Fox, 2019.