T3: the well-predicted disappointment (no spoilers in this review)

Rating: 1/10 (31 December 2005)

Read the posting by "J Akerberg from Sweden" and agreed that T3 peed all over the original Terminator movie. Dialogue and acting was atrocious. Special effects were good, but then we've all learned to expect that these days with the amazing advances in computer animation, etc. However, T3 was fraught with so many technical mistakes. Anyone notice the huge white "X" in the middle of an intersection when during a chase scene, the car spun about in the middle of the intersection - obviously directed to do so on the conspicuous X. What about when the Terminator (Arnie) was walking back and forth at a campground fetching weaponry while John Connor and what's her name yapped. That scene must have had live audio recorded because with those heavy combat boots Schwarzie was wearing, his voice jarred with every step. If he was the robot he was advertised to be, his voice would not falter while he walked (oh, unless someone wants to argue that the machines had thought of every way to emulate human physical dynamics). No. Had real thought been put into this movie, it could have been much better and much scarier. I loved the original Terminator movie. This sequel was (as my gut instinct told me it would be) a disappointment. So I just sat back and enjoyed it for the FX and I replaced some of their dialogue with my own ideas that would have made it funnier. Some business, this Hollywood. It seems to make money on whatever it stamps out of its assembly lines. Just goes to show how low the American public's expectations are.