HUGE LETDOWN

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2003)

I need to be very careful not to give away anything, but I will state what I feel the major failings are:
1) From Edge of Realism to Comic Book. The thing I loved about the first 2 movies was even though much of it was unbelievable, there was quite a bit of tension and realism to the characters and chases. The problem was that T2 pushed the limits. They decided to go farther, and it just became rediculous. Most of the chases I found myself laughable they were so silly.
2) Too Many rules changed. If you watch T1 and T2 before T3, you will see exactly what I mean by the way the T-101 acted, especially, since it's not supposed to be the same as from the prior movie(s).
3) The theme changed. I feel like the story was going one way in the first 2 movies, and they completely changed their minds as to what to do.
Now, I don't want to say the story was without merit and the ending wasn't good, but it was executed and designed POORLY. It feels more like "let's revive the Terminator movie just to make it" rather than "now, how do we pull it all together?".
I think perhaps another 6 months to 1 year to work on the storyboarding and scripting was needed to make this a really good movie, because if this was the first movie, there would NEVER EVER EVER been even a snowflake's chance in hell on the hottest day of the year while sitting in an over set to 5,000,000 F all day for a sequel, let alone anyone caring about it.
James Cameron, WHY DID YOU LET THEM DO THIS TO YOUR MOVIE???!!!!! I DON'T CARE IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT, YOU SHOULD OF DONE SOMETHING TO HAVE SAVED THIS MOVIE FROM WHAT HAPPENED!