So much was lacking from this movie...

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 2004)

as compared to T2. I loved T2. The special effects were new and story was great. T3 has your average special effects, but the problem is the story is not very good nor interesting. I'm glad I didn't see it at the theater. Most of the chase scenes are rather boring since it's nothing new. And the new TX doesn't do a lot of cool stuff. Plus, this movie was made like a pg-13 film. There were only a couple of scenes that made it an R. The terminator films are R movies because they have blood and violence. In T3, there is a lot of violence from machine guns, but the only real blood involves the TX sticking her arm through a cop while he's driving.
There is a cameo from the doctor at the psych ward in T2. He just runs off when he sees Arnie. There was so much potential for a big laugh there, but we didn't get it.
And the way Arnie dies here is so uneventful as compared in T2. In T2 it was moving, but we don't even see him die on screen here. The ending does set itself up for a sequel that has a lot of potential, but they don't need to make it if James Cameron won't do it.
FINAL VERDICT: If you are someone just dying to know what happens next in the terminator series, than check it out. Otherwise, it isn't that great of a film just to pick up at the video store.