TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

'''TERMINATOR: DARK FATE. Tim Miller, director. James Cameron, story (with four others), producer''' (with one other); see IMDb Full Cast and Crew for full list of writers and producers. James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, characters and premise. Sonja Klaus, production design. USA, Spain, Hungary: Paramount Pictures et al. (production) / Paramount Pictures (US distribution), 2019. See IMDb for details of production and distribution. Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, featured players (see Storyline below). English with some Spanish, with subtitles in English (that may not be always exact translations).

Storyline on IMDb, from Paramount More than two decades have passed since Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, changed the future, and re-wrote the fate of the human race. Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) is living a simple life in Mexico City with her brother (Diego Boneta) and father when a highly advanced and deadly new Terminator - a Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna) - travels back through time to hunt and kill her. Dani's survival depends on her joining forces with two warriors: Grace (Mackenzie Davis), an enhanced super-soldier from the future, and a battle-hardened Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). As the Rev-9 ruthlessly destroys everything and everyone in its path on the hunt for Dani, the three are led to a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from Sarah's past that may be their last best hope.

Another possible Terminator-series future, with more of a machine-mediated destruction of most of the human species and world but still with Terminators hunting the remnants, and a resistance led by a person from our time. Relevant here primarily for Grace as a cyborg as augmented and enhanced human and varieties of Terminators that are biomechanical in visually interesting ways; cf. and contrast the ALIEN (film) series. Some minor Terminators have squid-ish arms somewhat like the Sentinels in THE MATRIX series; featured Rev-9 is essentially liquid like T-1000 in TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, but has a separable skeleton, with all done in black, in stark contrast to the silvery finish of T-1000.

DARK FATE keeps up the TERMINATOR tradition of interesting real-world machines of various kinds — including trucks, planes, and helicopters; and industrial robots that take human jobs — but the main sort of containment in a "mechanized" world is high-tech electronic and drone surveillance. DARK FATE is also a useful contribution to the Cameron and Hurd and then just James Cameron commentary on gender and body issues, this time including Latina/Latino ethnicity and a literal US-Mexico border to parallel figurative borders such as mechanism and flesh in a cyborg.

RDE, Initial Compiler, 12Nov19