Not bad for a second sequel

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2011)

This is the third chapter of the TERMINATOR franchise, and it's pretty good with its more modern (the first and second films were made before most of us began making the internet a part of our everyday lives) knowledge and post 9/11 viewpoints.
John Connor (Nick Stahl) is now about 25 (?) years old. Sarah Connor has passed away from leukemia and John is sort of drifting through life, just waiting it seems, for the next assassin to cross time and try to end him before the nuclear holocaust takes place.
Enter the TX aka the Terminatrix (kind of silly, don't you think? Just because Kristanna Loken's a sexy vixen type?) who is quite well played by the actress, who obviously studied Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick in the preceding films. Like the T1000 in the second film, TX is a liquid polymer advancement on the original 101 (again, Good Arnold).
The film is mostly about how TX begins to kill off future soldiers for the Resistance Movement. She succeeds for the most part, but she can't seem to get to John or his friend Kate Brewster (Claire Danes). While being chased by TX, John, Kate and 101 will find out more about Skynet, and the role Kate's father will play.
Though it's a good storyline, this third film doesn't seem as "fun" as the first two, in spite of the stunts, effects, costumes and everything. It just doesn't feel the same. Though Stahl does a good job acting, his John Connor ought to have been much more vigilant by this point, and he seemed to think that just because Judgement Day didn't come in 1997, he was in the clear.