Bad... Bad... Bad...

Rating: Null/10 (13 July 2003)

I'm about to spoil the whole movie for you, so read on at your own risk. If you were content with the ending of Terminator 2, I suggest that you have nothing at all to do with this movie. Aside the constant barrage of cliches and overall bad acting, the one thing that errked me more than anything is that Jonathan Mostow completly ignored the first two movies, and decided that he would make one that went completely against any of the ideals held sacred by most fans of the series. He decided that "Fate is what we make", and "The future is not set" were just too happy. In this movie we find John Conner 10 years after the last movie ended. He's a shell of a man, living day to day, staying 'below the radar'. He still has nightmares of the Judgement Day future, and his role in leading humanity's survivors to victory over the machines. He happens to end up in an animal hospital run by the daughter (Claire Danes) of the man who finally develops 'Skynet'. The T-X and a T-800 are both sent back to Kill/Protect John's lieutenants this time around. They both find Claire Danes and Nick Stahl at the same time, and the long chase begins. Blah Blah Blah... lot of fighting actio n CG stuff... guns... Arnold's infinite bag of Terminator saying cliches... you get the point. Anyway, John Conner find out that Claire Danes' father is the creator of 'SkyNet', and the group advances on the secret underground military complex where her father works. T-X follows, and first generation Terminator machines are involved, more fighting... Okay, well, to get to the point, finally, Claire's father sends her and John to the supposed location of the 'SkyNet' central brain, and they end up in a cave-room with nothing but outdated computers and enough food to live for a year or two underground. They both finally figure out that there was no stopping 'SkyNet' because it was an Odyssey 5 ripoff Artificial Intelligence virus, and not a program solely located in a single computer. So, Judgement Day was an inevitability in this movie, and all is pooped on...