How T3 continues the trilogy

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2003)

As a big fan of Terminator movies I went to see this movie in the first day is was released. I was really interested to see how such a difficult assignment as creating a new episode of legendary Terminator movies could be done.
I remember that I was 14 when I saw the first Terminator movie. For me at that time it was one of the worst scary movies I had ever seen. The last scene when the terminator had only a metal skeleton remaining and it was chasing Sarah Connor in a factory was unforgettable. I don't remember ever being as horrified in a movie.
Then at the age of 21 I saw the Terminator 2. That was another ultimate experience in a different way. It followed the dark atmosphere of the 1st Terminator but also showed an incredible action power in a movie that was never seen before. It was similar enough to the first Terminator but at the same time shocking in its own way. The "Arnold's jokes" in the movie became legendary.
So, when I went to see this 3rd episode at the age of 32 I was really curious to see how filmmakers would be able to create another part of the very unique Terminators movies. Well, I try not not repeat all the comments that other people have already said here. It wasn't definitely a bad movie but the feeling I got was that it was too much just copying the nice characters and jokes from T2 and didn't have enough fresh ideas. Maybe only James Cameron would have had enough courage to make a completely new kind of film, copying enough from the previous parts but still creating something new. Now as it is, it left a slight feeling that producers just wanted to get profits with the old bullet proof movie format.
If I say something concrete on the movie, I certainly liked the new sexy TX character and I have to say that she was so good that even that alone would be a good enough reason to watch this movie. I also liked the Skynet robots that started to rise in the end of the movie. That was slightly touching the atmosphere of the original movies. It was great to see how the judgment day really happened. I also liked Arnold still showing his best action in his 50's. John Connor's character was OK although too far away from the character in T2 to be reliable. The worst thing in the movie was the direction compared to other Terminator movies. Maybe it is just James Cameron's extraordinary skills that made a story flow in the previous episodes but this film seemed more like a row of separate sequences. It was too much repeating the same jokes as seen in T2 and in some sequences this movie was even trying to get cheap credits by making fun of T2 (which I hated).
Well, compared to other movies I've seen recently this is certainly worth to watch. It partly feels like a cheap copy of the previous Terminators but at the same time it gives some enjoyable moments for all the true Terminator fans in a new decade.