This one blows...

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2004)

The movie isn't made by Cameron thus, I cannot recognize it as true Terminator canon. Cameron was the visionary behind the earlier pictures, he also spoke of a third movie in the mid nineties. I dunno why he's not involved in this one but it shows. Terminator 2 beats this in about every single aspect, T2 had spirit, it awoke emotion and was full of powerful storytelling. T3 is just full of excuses to flash arnie around and blow stuff up. Arnies face mask is a botch job and the computerized effects gleam off plastic-like. The effects are total crap compared to the work done in T2 which even today look spectacular whilst here the effects look flat and unimpressive. Cameron knows storytelling, writing, effects AND individual cast directing, he is a director genius and the Terminator saga pretty much his brainchild, without him and his original Terminator team (including the cast) a Terminator movie is nothing but a meaningless summer action flick. T1 and T2 ruled because they were action films that were also good movies, not just an endless flood of dropping shells and bullets like raindrops...