Terminator 3 destroys the franchise

Rating: 4/10 (14 September 2005)

I was really looking forward to the prospect of a third instalment to the Terminator series, but when i read that it was to be a 12A rating, i was outraged. There's no need for it, is there. If you look at the 3rd movie it tells you all. It has an edgy and out of touch storyline. It's not directed by James Cameron, it was left for 12 years to be revisited, it has no Linda Hamilton, no Edward Furlong(they left it to late for him, not seeing the inevitable, that he would end up in rehab)and the main attraction and the only attraction is a 56 year old Terminator who is on the verge of bowing out of the industry(Arnie). These are not the things that frustrate me in a big way, i'll tell you what it is, it's the films disgraceful attention to detail: 1) Nick Stahl(John Connor) says that the Terminator visited him first when he was 13, when anyone who actually watched T2 will know that John was 10 in the 1995 based Terminator 2, and he would have had to have been 10 because his mother, Sarah fell pregnant with him in late 1984(shown in Terminator). 2) It says on Sarah Connors coffin that she was born in 1959 and died in 1997 from leukaemia. She wasn't born in 1959, she was 19 in 1984, that was explained in T2, she had to be born in 1964 or 1965. 3) John says in T3 that his mother contracted Lukemia in 1994, and died from it shortly after the predicted Judgement Day. Now if that's the case why wasn't this mentioned in 1995 based T2, well i'll tell you why, they didn't expect Linda Hamilton to turn down the 3rd movie role, so they created some bull crap story to cover up her disappearance. I didn't reckon much of Nick Stahl's dry performance and i think that Director Jonathan Mostow & writers John Branicato, Michael Ferris & Tedi Sarafian should give each other some hard slaps and be cast out of the movie making industry for ruining a franchise by making the third instalment having never watched the first two movies. They just wanted to make money, they don't care about those hardcore fans, they don't love films, they mock the industry. 12A gets the kids in, gets the money in, takes the brilliance out. CAMERON WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!