A- (Action Minus Soul)

Rating: 3/10 (3 July 2003)

As a movie seen only for Action: finely entertaining. As a film based on some kind of story: hardly entertaining.
It's always good when a sequel can stand alone as a story, but T3 would fail (miserably) to do so. T3 is more of an extended ending to T2, as no effort is made to really set the scene in this movie. Instead, T3 relies on its previous incarnations for any understanding of what is happening or why.
As almost everything is recycled, and the only surprise is
the not exceptionally optimistic end, the Who Cares factor
kills the terminators deader than they already are.
So hey, the cars go boom boom nicely. The robots menace. Claire Danes looks less interesting than she would in a 30 second commercial.
See it because the action is decent. But don't go expecting to come out of it excited about the possibility of T4, cause the new improved terminator has no soul.