I have always liked this installment.

Rating: 9/10 (31 January 2020)

I appreciate this sequel even more after watching the last three Terminator sequels which were all awful and forgettable, especially Dark Fate. I wasn't expecting much from Terminator 3 since most sequels go downhill fast and the second sequel usually scrapes the bottom of the barrel but the chase scene near the beginning was a truly bracing experience that made me sit up and take notice.
I liked the fact that the Terminator was a female in this one. I have always liked seeing woman in action flicks doing things that we are used to seeing men do. Also, having a female Terminator followed the logic of Terminator 2 where subsequent Terminators were more streamlined and elegant and yet more powerful than the big and bulky Terminator of the first movie.
I am probably one of the few people, if not the only one, who likes T3 more than T2. I appreciate that in T3 the Terminator's mimicking abilities were not taken to the almost comical extent that they were in T2 where in one scene the T1000 liquefied and morphed into a black and white checkerboard floor. That was a bit much for me. I also liked that they began to flesh out the story to explain how the machines ended up taking over. In all, I think this was the LAST decent Terminator movie.