Good casting choices

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2003)

Terminator 3 was a very enjoyable movie due to both a good story and good casting choices to surround Arnold. Kristanna Lokan is the standout of the movie as the ultra-sexy and menacing Terminatrix (TX). She has terrific screen presence and makes for a cold and relentless villain, on par with Robert Patrick's terrific turn as the T-1000 in T2. Here's hoping Lokan gets more good roles in the future. Nick Stahl and Claire Danes both do well in the pivotal parts of John Conner and Katie Brewster. The relationship between these two characters is central to the film and Danes and Stahl showed good chemistry together.
The story I thought was very good with an interesting blend of humor with a grim storyline. It worked, though. The movie manages to tell a good story without being too pretentious or taking itself too seriously. The ending was certainly an eyebrow raiser and certainly distinguishes it from the other two Terminator films.
One complaint I have was the lack of the Terminator theme music in the movie(until the end credits, anyway). But other than that, I thought the movie did what it set out to do- tell an interesting story while entertaining the audience. 10/10