T3 - A Movie A Lot Better Than People Give It Credit For.

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2020)

Having watched the original Terminator, its sequel T2: Judgment Day and T3: Rise of the Machines at 7/8 (and T2 being my all-time favourite movie!), i will always feel nostalgia when rewatching this one. while the first 2 are helmed as classics in the sci-fi and action genres, T3 and its 3 successors Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate bring up many debates between Terminator fans.
after having destroyed Cyberdyne's research in T2, John Connor lives off the grid in the year 2004. a new model Terminator designated the T-X is sent from the year 2032 to find and terminate as many of his future Resistance lieutenants as possible, including his future wife Kate Brewster. unfortunately for John the T-X locates him, being its primary target. John and Kate are rescued by an updated T-800 - the T-850. now they must evade the T-X and stop Judgment Day once again.
T3 is far better than most people give it credit for. many people site this movie's portrayal of John as one of the main problems - but it only makes sense that John is portrayed as angst-ridden and not as confident as his T2 counterpart, having been told his whole life that he will become the leader of the Resistance, but not happening yet.
my only main gripes with this movie are the lack of blue hue James Cameron used in the first 2 films, and minor continuity errors (John saying he was 13 when the T-1000 attacked him, despite T2 clearly showing that he was 10. John saying Cyberdyne was destroyed "over 10 years ago", despite T2 taking place in June 1995 and T3 taking place in July 2004. several DVDs and IMDb say that John is 22/23/25, although taking place in 2004 makes John 19).
while i would have loved to see Linda Hamilton back as Sarah Connor in this movie, it's never really bothered me all that much. give T3 a chance, it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. for me it's on par with last year's Terminator: Dark Fate, although for me T3 gets me so full of nostalgia that i'll always see it as my third favourite in the franchise! for me T3 gets a 8.5/10! give it a chance!