Tom and Jerry: Terminator: Dark Fate

Tom and Jerry:Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2021 American Live Action/animated action comedy-adventure direct-to-video film, produced by Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Pictures (WarnerMedia Byline), Warner Bros. Animation, Paramount Pictures Skydance Media 20th Century Fox Tencent Pictures TSG Entertainment and Lightstorm Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Paramount Pictures (North America) Tencent Pictures (China) and 20th Century Fox (International; through Buena Vista International) based on (Terminator: Dark Fate 2019 Film)

Plot
In 1998, three years after destroying Cyberdyne Systems, Sarah and John Connor are enjoying life by a beach in Livingston, Guatemala, when they are suddenly ambushed by a T-800 Terminator. One of several sent back through time by Skynet, the Terminator kills John and leaves, despite Sarah's attempts to stop it.

In 2020, an advanced Terminator, the Rev-9, is sent back in time to Mexico City to murder Dani Ramos, while a cybernetically enhanced soldier, Grace, is sent from 2042 to protect her. The Rev-9, disguised as Dani's father, infiltrates the automobile assembly plant where Dani and her brother Diego work, but is thwarted by Grace, who escapes with the siblings. The Rev-9, using its ability to split into two distinct entities (its cybernetic endoskeleton and shape-shifting liquid metal exterior), pursues them, killing Diego and cornering Grace and Dani. However, Sarah arrives and temporarily disables both entities using explosives.

Dani, Grace, and Sarah retreat to a motel. Sarah reveals that she found them because in the years since John's death, she has received encrypted messages detailing the locations of arriving Terminators, each ending with "For John", allowing her to destroy them before they become threats. Grace notes that Skynet and John do not exist in her future and thus Sarah had succeeded in destroying the former after Cyberdyne went defunct. However, humanity's future is threatened by another AI called Legion, originally developed for cyberwarfare; this system is built in Skynet's place. When Legion became a threat to humans, an attempt was made to neutralize it with nuclear weapons, resulting in a nuclear holocaust and the AI creating a global network of machines to terminate the human survivors. The survivors then organized as the Human Resistance to counter Legion's onslaughts, and Dani's destiny is linked to their war against it.

Grace traces Sarah's messages to Laredo, Texas. Barely evading the Rev-9 and the authorities while crossing the Mexico–United States border, they arrive at their source, where they discover the same T-800 that had murdered John. Having fulfilled its mission and with Skynet no longer existing, the T-800 was left aimless. Through learning, however, it became self-aware. During that time, it learned from humanity and developed a conscience, taking the name "Carl" and adopting a human family. After learning how its actions affected Sarah and being able to detect the location of temporal displacements, Carl decided to forewarn her of them to give her purpose to make amends. Carl offers to join them against the Rev-9, and they prepare to destroy it, with Sarah begrudgingly agreeing to work together for Dani's sake. Anticipating the Rev-9's arrival, Carl bids its family farewell and tells them to escape.

They seek out a military-grade electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from an acquaintance of Sarah's. The Rev-9 catches up with them, forcing them to steal a plane to escape, though the EMPs are destroyed in the resulting shootout. During the flight, Grace reveals the Rev-9's motive that Dani becomes the future founding commander of the Resistance who destroyed Legion. The Rev-9 boards their airplane and temporarily subdues Carl, forcing Grace, Sarah, and Dani to parachute from the plane into a river near a hydroelectric plant, with Carl and the Rev-9 following close behind.

Bludgeoned, the group makes their stand inside the plant. In the ensuing battle, Carl and Grace force the Rev-9 into a spinning turbine, causing an explosion that critically damages the two Terminators, while mortally wounding Grace. The severely damaged Rev-9 endoskeleton incapacitates Sarah, forcing Dani to confront it herself. A dying Grace tells Dani to use her power source to destroy the Rev-9. Dani tries to fight it but is quickly overpowered. Carl reactivates itself and restrains the Rev-9, allowing Dani to stab it with Grace's power source. Carl drags itself and the Rev-9 over a ledge, right before the power core explodes, destroying them both.

Sometime later, Dani and Sarah watch a young Grace at a playground with her family, the former determined to avert Grace's death and Legion's rise. Sarah then tells Dani she needs to get ready, with Grace watching as the pair drives off.

Cast

 * Richard Kind as Tom
 * Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 / Carl
 * Dana Hill as Jerry
 * Mackenzie Davis as Grace,
 * Natalia Reyes as Dani Ramos
 * Christy Carlson Romano as Kim Possible
 * Gabriel Luna as Gabriel / Rev-9,
 * Tristán Ulloa as Felipe Gandal
 * Alicia Borrachero as Alicia,
 * Manuel Pacific as Mateo
 * Enrique Arce as Vicente
 * Fraser James as Major Dean
 * Tom Hopper as William Hardell,
 * Stuart McQuarrie as Craig, Dani
 * Steven Cree as Rigby,
 * Edward Furlong as "John Connor reference"
 * Aaron Kunitz provided the voice of young John Connor.
 * Earl Boen appears as Dr. Silberman

Trivia:

 * Rated PG-13: mild violence, threat, rude humour, language.
 * Suggested Running Times: 128 minutes (NTSC), 78 Minutes (PAL).
 * This is a crossover between Tom and Jerry and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).
 * This will feature the Return performance of Richard Kind (the voice of Tom) and Dana Hill (the voice of Jerry)

Music
Tom Holkenborg composed the film's score, reuniting with director Tim Miller after their collaboration in Deadpool. Holkenborg recreated Brad Fiedel's original "Terminator" theme while also introducing Latino elements to reflect the ethnicity of Dani Ramos. Holkenborg used approximately 15 instruments while composing the score, and also used the sound of an anvil and the banging of a washing machine. Holkenborg described his score as being "way more aggressive" than Fiedel's. The soundtrack was released digitally on November 1, 2019, by Paramount Music.

Soundtrack
All music composed by Tom Holkenborg except where otherwise noted.