An insult to the series

Rating: 1/10 (19 February 2007)

T3 is an okay movie, I guess. It has some glaring errors, lapses of logic and inconsistencies with its predecessors, but it has its moments. The best of those moments send shivers down my spine because of the way they echo the predecessors.
Yes, the best this movie has to offer is that it's built on a pair of awesome movies. They lift it up, make it touch greatness, and in return it spits on their memory.
I guess my problem with T3 is that T1 and T2 make up a legendary, unparalleled, not to mention complete story. T3 has nothing to add to them. T2 ends on a positive note, building a fragile hope that the future might not be lost, and T3 smashes it by not only showing that the apocalypse was inevitable all along, and nothing the earlier two movies accomplished amounted to anything, but also shows the nukes flying and the world ending, substituting hope for mindless destruction.
I am constantly revolted that people seem to think this movie is a valid part of the Terminator series. To me it feels like fan fiction, an untrained artist lacking a vision of his own finger-painting his unskilled additions on the Last Supper. With permanent colors.
That is to say, I urge you to judge this movie on its own, do not throw it in with its predecessors, for it is not worthy to stand in the presence of such as these. Judge it on its own and notice how utterly it fails to stand on its own.