Terminator: Dark Fate Trailer 2 Review - 7 Ups & 2 Downs

5. The Violence

Anybody who's a fan of The Terminator and T2 will tell you that they didn't become the iconic pieces of cinema history that they are by looking pretty (though they do look very, very pretty). They are dark movies that deal with heavy stuff and, with stakes like the extinction of the human race on the table, things are going to get nasty.

That's something that Salvation and Genisys (and to a lesser-extent T3) lost sight of, as they presented the films like cool action-packed almost-family-friendly blockbusters in the same vein as Transformers. As a result, there was little to no violence and the movies relied heavily on action.

Thankfully, the trailer for Dark Fate does appear to back up the studio's claims that the film will return the franchise to that once-gritty spectacle that it was.

From shots of heavily-wounded characters to the Rev-9 Terminator graphically slicing and dicing a number of security guards (which is even more graphic in the International trailer), it's clear that Terminator has remembered what it means to be violent - and that, at the very least, sets Dark Fate apart from the sequels that came before it.