Too Little, Too Late

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2013)

If there was really going to be a movie showing the events leading up to Judgment Day then it should have been in theaters between 1993-1995. As it is, this abomination was scrapped together from sloppy remnants. Only a still buff but dated looking Arnold Schwarzenegger as returns the T-800 sent back to stop the T-X from murdering Kate Brewster (Claire Daines) and John Connor (Nick Stahl). The T-X (Kristanna Loken) is an endoskeleton with built-in weapons, the same ability to change appearance as the T-1000 and she can control machines. She commandeers a woman's convertible, cop car and several construction vehicles, and begins killing John Connor's future Human Resistance lieutenants. Her ultimate mission is to infect America's computer controlled nuclear arsenal with a virus that would launch the United States' nuclear weapons. John Connor has been living a nomadic, off-the-grid lifestyle since the T-2 events. His narration mentions that Judgment Day never happened and though he and his mom had destroyed Skynet in the past, he never shook the feeling that something terrible happening was inevitable. The movie starts out well but ends being filled with bad jokes, a weak story and even worse performances. Claire Daines was badly miscast and grows so annoying you end up cheering for the T-X to waste her. Nick Stahl is an underwhelming John Connor, boring but not terrible. He looks like a homeless stoner expecting to wake up from a bad trip. Schwarzenegger is playing a role he knows very well but that's not exactly a good thing since he's rehashing an old character for a fat paycheck. Kristanna Loken is a beautiful woman and that's about it, she's a non-acting performer in this. This movie was the end of The Terminator as a relevant franchise.