It took 12 years to make this???

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 2003)

OKay... I wasn't expecting Days of Heaven.
Terminator 3 is hollow and overblown and did not interest me from the opening shot. Too many characters and elements were missing from the story for this installment to be interesting. The script was contrived, weak and all over the place. There was nothing ground breaking about the film; although the action was consistent. The film lacked atmosphere. The direction was a let down and a cover up. At least, Cameron had a vision... Jonathan Mostow hardly has a clue. There was no story just mayhem. The story line was weak and uninspired... I can't believe it took five writers to come up with that script was an end product.
ACTUAL DIALOGUE: "There's my father's plane! I trained on it!"
The plot was just a bunch of contrivances to paste and thread together action scenes. I think more time should have been spent in the Animal Hospital -- the only original idea in the script. Granted it's inexplicable... but I admire the bold choice in a movie that made NO OTHERS. EVEN the FX in T2 were better.
The new characters were boring and uninspired. John Conner was hardly inspiring as the savior of mankind. The sending of a new Terminator should have been developed more. Why is the new Terminator sexy? I mean that's pointless. Do something with the sex appeal. The big problem is you can't take any of the Terminators seriously. Ah-nuld is too funny and the other is way too sexy. Robert Patric in T2 was vastly superior in so far as his performance.
The biggest let down was that Ah-nuld NEVER REALLY KICKED ANY ASS. He just made corny jokes. There were funny jokes but funny jokes do not a good film make. I wanted my money back. Unfortunately, Henny Youngman won't be around to make the eventual Terminator 4 as he would make a great Terminator to duel with Der Ah-Nuld.
As a whole, the film lacked so much that I saw no need to end it... it was phony from the start. 170 Million Dollar Opium for the mass-market masses (and the 1rst Terminator was a lo budget Cult Film and vastly superior).

Within a trilogy, this film is worse than Godfather III was; but more way funny.
MOSTOW NEEDS TO GO BACK TO MAKING LAME AND REPETITIVE SUBMARINE MOVIES!!!