An Entertaining Complement to the Story

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2003)

Although parts of it seem contradictory to certain things within our expectations, this film is MAXIMUM fun. Sequels/prequels cannot ever meet up to hype and expectation.
Although the movie does fall short due to the non-Brad-Fiedel score and a cop-out excuse for the exclusion of Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton turned down her role, thus an alternate story had to be made up to explain her character's absence), it is nevertheless the most explosive and well-paced action flick of the summer so far.
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD*** People grudge about the ending, but this is not "The Empire Strikes Back," "Attack of the Clones," "Lord of the Rings," or "Back to the Future." This is the PERFECT ending to the story. T4 is T1. Remember, we are talking about time travel paradox here. This story has no ending. It is fine the way it is: looping around. The progression is: T1, T2, T3, T1, T2, T3, T1...etc.
*SPOILER-FREE AGAIN* A T4 completely set in the future--to let us see the full-scale future war sequences that we only slightly saw and heard about--will be a good complement. Heck you don't even need Arnold for that. All you need are plenty of endoskeletons.