What a disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (6 June 2005)

When seeing the trailer the first time I was astonished, it really gave me this wow feeling, and I was looking forward to see the movie. But after seeing the movie I felt betrayed, betrayed form the big Hollywood studio. And again, they showed only the best scenes from the movie. Ohh, no, not the best scenes, only the best key frames from action overloaded scenes.
The runtime is too short, not even 2 hours of action was presented to the public. After the 2hour and 22 minutes of Terminator 2 I thought this third part, where the end of the world starts, will be as at least 2 hours long. Because of this lack of time the story is told a bit too fast. One action scene is right after the previous one, there is no time to think about the seen, no time to cross-link the first two parts with this third one. The talks of John Connor, where he explains where he was and what he was/is doing, well the story tellings, is simply flat, dry and monotone. Yeah, I could say it's boring. You get the info you have to know but it seems that there is no feeling behind that, it doesn't give the feeling that John is the" man of the future, the one and only. . .
The effects, some are realistic, some are not, even Terminator 2 from 1991 has more realistic effects than this one. I'm talking here especially about the cemetery scene where T-X flies on this gravestone. How the stone brakes and the dust this little accident makes is absolutely fake and this fake is visible, even from miles away. The car chaise, it's fine, but hell, did the this scene where all those buildings got demolished really cost 25$ millions.
The cemetery scene with Kate, the doc and the police . . . well it's to boring. Kate being at the SWAT truck, talking to the doc, being very excites, under shock, talking nonsense, the doc offers her some chill pill ( something to calm her down ), Kate takes the pill, hold it in her hands, in the other hand some water and starts telling the doc what's up. Then she mentions the name John and some huge, and the doc asks who this John is. Kate says, John, John Connor, an old schoolmate" and then the doc goes blank. You men John Connor, son of Sarah Connor"  Yes"  And this huge guy, and here comes the description of Arnie, calls himself a Terminator"  Yes, but how do you know that" . . . and then you hear some explosions and machine guns firing. The doc turns around and sees the Terminator . . . doc shows his wondering face and says No, not again", takes the pill away from Kate, drinks it . . . takes another pill(s) from drinks them and then runs away. . . Kate runs after him wondering how the doc knows this bullet eating giant and tells Kate the past contacts with this Terminatora and this is where Kate should realize that it's true what John was talking about . . . this small scene, told slowly, and wisely could have made the movie a bit longer and brought some break before the next big block of explosions and fight scenes To the ARMY, well the general and co at this Computer Defense center or whatever it is act like the generals from the movies Under Siege 1 and 2.
The scene where T-man is reprogrammed to kill John and John is telling him not to do it, the inner fight that the Terminator has, is simply childish and very predictable. It is somehow the low, not Terminator like.
It's also funny how two people in their mid 20's can escape from human killing machines, but the well trained, educated military people are killed within a few seconds. I thought in such high security facilities only the best of the best can be the guards. O.K., a lot of computer programmers, scientists and engineers are working there, but it's simply stupid that they get killed.
It seems like Jonathan Mostow used the analogy, the time-line, the art of T2 and tried to copy it to the new is story. Tried to make the same things but really failed.