Don't fix something that isn't broken.

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2005)

Instructions on how to fix something that isn't broken:
1. Take 2 amazing films.
2. Take the plot and storyline.
3. Take the FINISHED story and try to CONTINUE it with a rubbish excuse
4. Take away lots of violence so that it can be rated '12A'
5. Include some un-scary CGI scenes and acting
6. Make too many jokes an take away the seriousness
Your outcome.. Terminator 3.
Its hard to know where to start. Lets get the good pints out first. Kristianna Loken, who plays the T-X - a part machine, part liquid metal robot that makes Arnie, the T-101 look "obsolete". Loken does an excellent job an takes the character really well. I think thats the only good point.. Flaws fill this film from start to finish. You can partly blame the new directing that has modernised this film too much, and turned it into some scenes as a joke.
Their are no gloomy, well filmed fight sequences as in the previous 2 films, and the jokes in this film are quite utterly poor. The worst idea of the lot was at the start, where Arnie (T-101) walks into a bar and gets his clothes of a gay stripper. Oh dear.. And it gets worse wen he walks out of the bar and puts on a pair of pink sparkly star glasses. Are we honestly expected to believe that a super-intelligent robot, with a database of millions of facts an information would put on these glasses? Thankfully, he sees sense and stamps on them. A slow start to a slow film. Their are plenty more of these stupid jokes, but lets avoid them.
The fight sequences are actually not bad - you sense the feeling neither robot will win as they go on for long times. However, the CGI lets the sequences down a little, as with many parts of this film. In Terminator 1, you could become scared through stop-motion animation and real props and makeup. I'm afraid computers seem to have replaced that. No longer do you get shivers down your spine, but more of a sense to laugh. The only good CGI sequence is were the T-X transforms from being Katherines boy friend to her normal self. Its a really realistic scene, and shows what we can achieve in the special effects department. But there's a point you just have to stop.
Whats more, this film shouldn't have even been made! In terminator 2, all the computer chips were destroyed along with Cyberdyne. Therefore its impossible to continue the saga. Nooo, because Arnie has a perfect excuse; "Judgement was inevitable". More like "I wanted more money, just like the film company and the box office". I'm sure everyone got enough money when the film was produced to be rated a 12, so it just so happens that adults and kids can watch it, equalling more sales.
You could analyse more problems with this film all day, all I have done is picked out the big ones. For any Terminator lovers that enjoyed the previous film, you may feel almost embarrassed. For first time watchers, you will probably enjoy, as you have not seen the quality in the previous films. The only way to enjoy the whole Terminator saga is to not watch this movie.