a really poor sequel that shouldn't have been made

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2015)

after the phenomenal sequel judgement day it took twelve years for the third film in the franchise and I wish it never happened and they should have left it with just the first two films. The premise of this film sees a terminator sent back in time to protect John Connor and his future wife from being killed by a future terminator and also to try and prevent judgement day from truly happening. Now Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the terminator and even though he does an alright job this is not the same performance as the terminator as before. He just seems like he is exhausted at times and can't be bothered and this was the first film where they really started to parody the terminator and make him a joke. They recast John Connor with actor Nick stahl and he just was not a good fit for the character. I understand where the character was he just didn't portray him very well and he didn't develop at all in the film and i never saw him getting closer to the leader of the resistance. Claire Danes is in the film and she is alright in the film and develops in the film with her performance being good. Also the villain the TX was a good villain and the character was perfect as the evil terminator of the film. The story didn't work either with it becoming way too convoluted and to a certain extent it takes away from the previous films. It has some decent ideas but really fails to deliver them and I feel like the characters didn't grow on me that much. The script is awful with the dialogue not hitting with any of the characters and they don't allow the characters to expand and become more interesting like previous films characters. There are some pretty cool action scenes like the truck scene and the church scene but then there are some over the top cgi scenes that just look really bad. Overall this is a poor film that you won't like unless you are a huge terminator fan and very forgiving.