T3 killed the Terminator Saga!

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2004)

Having been an almost fanatical fan of T1 and T2 i awaited the release of T3 with much anticipation. I had purchased the special editions of the previous 2 films on DVD, and now i was awaiting for the third to come out on theaters. Then i went and saw it...
Oh boy! Was it a stink fest and a half. I'm sorry, but the previous two films had developed characters, serious villains and realistic scenes (as realistic as a Science Fiction films get). T3 however took the great Saga of the Terminator films, dumbed it down to a generic action movie and did what Cameron did not want to do in t2, make the Terminator a clown. I almost walked out of the film when i saw that the Terminator kept being the butt of every joke. Sure there were chuckles in T2 when the Terminator didn't act quite human but in T3 he was just missing the big red shoes, very sad cause i like Arnold as an actor. I was expecting for the Director to take the movie seriously, but instead it seemed almost a comedy, shattering the image of the Terminators as implacable killing machines and making them comical. I guess i know now how Star Wars fans felt when they saw Episode 1. In conclusion, the thin story line, 2d characters and general atrocious scenes of random violence made this film the nose dive of the saga. If a 4th film is made i doubt it will ever come out of the gutter. Sad really, cause it was my favorite movie.