Doesn't quite "bust" the "block".

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2004)

To add a third installment to a very good film and it's even better sequel takes a lot of doing,particularly if you are going to press on with the project without the director that is responsible for the success of the first two.James Cameron is no where behind the camera for T3,and this will be obvious to anyone watching.Also absent is Linda Hamilton,another big reason for the success of the previous two films. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger,the man we have come to know and love as the T100,doesn't quite seem the same anymore.The computer generated special effects are just a little too obvious for my taste,and the entire film takes on the feel of a small,made for cable,or straight to video dud instead of a big screen blockbuster.I don't watch very many sequels, because they all too often disappoint me and ruin my memory of the previous film.I thought,in this case that since the second film surpassed the first in terms of quality viewing,that this third installment would at least measure up to one of those two.Much to my dismay,I was wrong.If this film could not have been directed by Cameron, it should have been given to someone on the same class as him,such as Ridley Scott.Perhaps it would have stood a better chance of being good.