Too much bad Sci-Fi, too little suspense

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2003)

Oh great, flying robot gunships and robot half-tracks. Is this "Star Wars"? And the Terminator battling for his own soul scene was old when Spock used to do it in '60s on "Star Trek". The second half of T3 is as mis-directed as the Terminatix's mission, which keeps changing. Besides the hoary cliche scene where the Terminator is wrestling for his soul, there are several scenes where you can sense the movie go off track: 1) In T2, during the "Hasta la vista" scene, the T-1000 begins to reform right before his prey, heightening their horror. But in T3, when Stahl and Danes have impaled and they assume left for dead the Terminatrix on the supermagnet, they are long gone on some other adventure by the time she begins to free herself. 2) Why does she need a gun to kill her victims when she can shoot electrical bolts? 3) How do the heavily-armed Terminator and the kids enter the secret Air Force base? How does the Terminatrix?
So much is left unexplained, in comparison to T2, in which you get to see how the T-1000 stalked its prey. But in T3, the Terminatrix just disappears from the screen for long stretches of talk about "man's destiny" blah, blah. In T3, she and all characters just show up whenever they're needed, miraculously!