The credibility is gone

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2006)

Terminator I was very thrilling, and so was Terminator II. But for some reason Terminator III was not. What is wrong? Well, the actors (except Kristana Loken) are not very good, but that is nothing new and not very important in a movie of this sort. But in any story there has to be certain well defined rules that must be respected at all times. Any story will be completely ruined the moment elements or events are involved that could never exist or happen in the world of the story. In a fairy tale it is okay to include a hat that makes the bearer invisible. But if a person suddenly begins to make himself invisible without the hat (and without a good explanation), the story is immediately ruined. It is okay that Q equips James Bond with a gadget that only works in fantasy, but the story will be ruined if we can't at least believe that it might somehow be technically possible to make such a gadget. A terminator is supposedly a fantastic machine, and since it is from the future we are prepared to believe it can have a lot of fantastic abilities. But we are not, and should not be, prepared to believe that it can work magic! So since we all know that it takes some mechanical power to activate the brakes, to speed up the engine and to turn the wheels of a car, we also know that some machinery will simply have to be built in to enable a car to be remote-controlled. But this terminator just sticks a thin finger into the instrument board like she might be installing some software into a computer, and - hokus pokus - suddenly she is able to drive the car with her mind! This is by no means plausible, so the story immediately looses all excitement. And besides the car chase with the crane is not interesting, because it is just too incredible that the main characters are not killed.