Up there with Hot Shots and Robin Hood men in tights

Rating: 3/10 (3 July 2003)

Not really sure the direction the director was heading with the the third installment of the terminator series but definately not anywhere I would have liked it to gone. It was almost as if Mostow took everything from the previous terminators and made them into a joke in this one. Yes we all know that the terminator has to find clothes somewhere but the director has to make a joke out of it. The terminator is a machine. He would not know whether sunglasses were considered socially feminine. I dont understand. I sat there and laughed the entire time I was watching the movie. I wasn't laughing with the director but at just how horrible it was. The jokes were funny in that way that you laugh because they are incredibly stupid. Its almost as if it should have been a pg-13 kids movie aside from the swearing and blood. I am a pretty big fan of the Terminator series, especially the first one, and was very dissapointed. The first terminator had a very dark, intense style which was lost a little with the second one but still executed. Everything that was good about the other ones was gone. The acting was horrible, the plot was simple, and the tone was childish. The movie is wraught with cheesey one liners and taglines and seemed unable to get passed that. I feel sorry for James Cameron. He must be crying right now. The change is comparable to that Batman series. Batman and Batman returns were good and then it all just went hollywood corporate. The thing that suprised me the most was coming online and seeing that it was almost hard to find a bad review. I guess that what I thought was cool about the first two was not what all the terminator nerds thought was cool. Its worse than what happened to the star wars series. They thought the jokes were funny and all the talked about were the action sequences. The first one had very little big budget action but it made up for it in story-line and suspense. Try watching the first and third movies back to back and you can truly see how stupid the series has gotten. Oh well, there were a few redeeming scenes that I can hopefully convince myself was worth the 8 bucks. The movie was a big cheesey joke. Don't see this movie unless your a big dork.