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The Most Exciting Part of <em>Terminator: Dark Fate </em>Isn’t the Action

The latest reboot of the sci-fi series brings back Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor—a character the audience can care about.
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“There’s no fate but what we make.” This phrase is uttered in almost every installment of the franchise, often by the heroine Sarah Connor (played by Linda Hamilton) or her son John. Yet for almost 20 years, the sci-fi series created by James Cameron has seemed fated for irrelevance. Despite the massive success of (1984) and (1991), every other revival attempt has failed, most recently the nonsensical flops subtitled and . What distinguishes the latest effort, , however,

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