James Cameron is Missed

Rating: 5/10 (4 July 2003)

From beginning to end you could say this movie is missing all the things that made T2 such a remarkable movie in 1991.
The artistic style of James Cameron is gone, replaced with a dizzying fast-paced shoot-em-up. The character development that played such an important role in T2 and T1 is missing. It's replaced with a quick intro about a neurotic man named John Conner, and a stereotypical daddy's girl who has a hotshot father in a secret military facility.
The whole anticipation of the Terminators finding John Conner is missing, replaced with a quick cut into a vet's office where ironically both Terminators find John Conner and Punky Brewster...err I mean Kate Brewster.
After that point, there isn't much time for explanation, it's just shoot this, shoot that, leading to a bland ending that could be used to milk the series for another few summers.
This movie was completely half-assed by directors, writers, and producers who weren't interested in reliving one of the James Cameron's greatest movie series of all time, but just using the name to sell tickets so they can suck the series dry before Arnold gets too old.