David Ellison Dana Goldberg Don Granger Written by Screenplay: David Goyer Justin Rhodes Billy Ray James Cameron (uncredited) Story: James Cameron Charles Eglee Josh Friedman David Goyer Justin Rhodes Based on Characters by James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton TRAILER 2:25 Terminator: Dark Fate R 2019, Sci-fi/Action, 2h 8m 70% Tomatometer 351 Reviews 82% Audience Score 10,000+ Verified Ratings What to know Critics Consensus Terminator: Dark Fate Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2019 American science fiction action film that is the sixth installment in the Terminator franchise and a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), ignoring the events of Rise of the Machines (2003), Salvation (2009), and the reboot Genisys (2015). Terminator: Dark Fate mirrors 1984's The Terminator by establishing a new time loop, with the present and the future feeding into one another. In the first Terminator , the time loop was centered upon Sarah Connor, who only became pregnant with future resistance leader John as a result of a time traveler from the future. A List of Terminator Movies to Watch Before Dark Fate From Judgment Day to Genisys , tracking the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Terminator franchise. By Evan Romano Published: Oct 30, 2019 Official Movie Site Get Content Details The Guide to our Grades Parent Movie Review by Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) lives a quiet life in Mexico City until a time-travelling killer robot (Diego Boneta) from the future shows up at her job wearing her father's face and tries to kill her. Terminator: Dark Fate is co-produced by its original creator, James Cameron, who has also co-written the story. It's that type of late-period action movie we have seen with Sly Stallone's Terminator: Dark Fate is rated R. Read our parents' review for details on sexual content, violence and strong language to find out why. Taking place 2 decades after the events of the original movie, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) along with a cybernetically enhanced human (Mackenzie Davis) must protect a young girl (Natalia Reyes) from a new and "Terminator: Dark Fate" exists in a world (and IN A WORLD … to borrow from the late, great trailer narrator Don LaFontaine) where the previous three films in the series never even existed. Director Tim Miller , working from a script by David S. Goyer & Justin Rhodes and Billy Ray , picks up where the high-tech game-changer " Terminator Terminator: Dark Fate. The Terminator is an action classic and T2 one of the greatest sequels of all time, but none of the films that followed came even close to matching them. Until, perhaps, now RKVGFx8.