Director: Tim Miller
Writers: Screenplay: David Goyer, Justin Rhodes + 1
Story By:
James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee, + 3
I love this
return to the original “Terminator” franchise.
The writers have done a magnificent job melding the old story with this
new one, and director Tim Miller sews it all together into a totally believable
story.
However, it’s
Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger who make it a brilliant, epic
return. Despite the many excellent
versions of the “Terminator” concept, including a television version, nothing engaged
me like the first one, written and directed by James Cameron, co-written by Gale
Ann Hurd.
There is
such an iconic implacability about the Schwarzenegger Terminator (“Carl”), I
can’t help but love him and I’m so glad he’s a “good” guy in this latest
version. When Sara Connor steps into
frame, my heart swelled with relief… I just knew she would save the day. Neither of these actors are in their prime
physical shape now, but, ultimately in the end, they prove it’s not “muscles”
or “skills” which get things done; rather, it’s pure unrelenting, unforgiving, unmistakable
commitment to their cause.
Natalia
Reyes is adequate as the new Savior-of-the-World, and I suspect she will
eventually rise to fill her heroic shoes.
MacKenzie Davis is effective and wonderful as the new version Protector-of-the-Heroine.
Implacable
as all Terminators must be, Gabriel Luna makes a formidable foe because he has
the same commitment as Sara and Carl, but he doesn’t prevail because he lacks
the fuel Sara and Carl have in abundance.
That fuel is love. Make no
mistake, Carl has “learned” this concept well enough to act it out. Whether a cyborg can really “feel” it… well,
I don’t even think it’s relevant in this brilliant return to the original franchise.
I predict a successful new franchise arising from this movie version.
I predict a successful new franchise arising from this movie version.
TAGS: Dark Fate, Linda
Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron, David Goyer, Terminator, MacKenzie
Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna
