Terminator saga should have been terminated before The Rise of the Machines

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2004)

Quite simply, this film should never have been made.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day finished with the intention of there being NO third installment, and it should have stayed that way. The chip and the arm of the first Terminator was destroyed and it's certainly my impression that Cameron didn't want a third movie.
It was disappointing that Mostow thought he could get away with inventing the claim that Judgment Day was "only postponed" by the events of Sarah and John Connor in what was 1995 in the story, and I was disappointed, that's the only word, that the Terminator trilogy ended with the end of mankind and the rise of the machines. It's kind of a bad ending, and audiences don't like them.
Loyal Terminator fans would feel they have to see this sequel, but to anyone who hasn't done yet, if I were you, just watch the 1984 original and 1991 sequel, "Judgment Day". I feel that a bad sequel brings down the reputation of the whole saga, and that shouldn't be the case, because the first two Terminators were among the greatest films ever. Shame this one couldn't follow suit.