well...it's certainly funny

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2003)

This movie was definately missing something without James Cameron and Linda Hamilton. The special effects were fantastic, and everything else was lukewarm. There was the fair share of humor in this movie that wasn't in the earlier ones...our society has made such a joke out of Arnold's mannerisms and accent in this movie that they movie itself makes fun of it. For example, when Nick Stahl is asking the Terminator if he remembers John from before, and he's like "Do the words 'Asta la Vista, baby' mean anything to you?" and so forth. This movie also takes advantage of the fact that the T-X is a really hot blonde 5'11 woman. Very corny parts with her include when she gets pulled over and, spotting the Victoria's Secret "What is Sexy" billboard, makes her breasts grow about 5 inches...and then when the cop comes she says in her seductive voice, "I like your GUN." In terms of acting, it's what you'd expect from a Terminator movie...Arnold IS the Terminator, so no complaints there, and Nick Stahl fills in nicely as John Connor, though I think I speak for a lot of people when I say it would have been nice to see Eddie Furlong again. Claire Danes was a little more sketchy. A lot of her movies have been either flops (Polish Wedding, the Mod Squad) or just plain bad (Brokedown Palace), but she has made enough of a career out of pretty good movies (the Hours, Romeo and Juliet, Igby Goes Down) that I don't think the hard core action is her thing. She's like a little girl in the movie and just looks uncomfortable blowing things up with machine guns...although the script has given her some scenes that were so lame that it would be hard for anyone to act them well ( ie telling the T-X to "Just die you bitch!"). Overall, this movie was alright...the humor and action make it enjoyable, and any hardcore Terminator fan will enjoy.