Does anyone in Hollywood have a brain?

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2003)

Not a great movie. About 1/2 is pretty good (the basic concept created by James Cameron), but the film goes way down hill quickly once the plot gets going. Repeats things from the first movies and PLOT HOLES GALORE!
(Spoilers)
I can suspend my disbelief that we have a science fiction movie here, but come on... unbelievably advanced autonomous cybernetic organisms by the year 2030? Impossible for me to believe since we can't even get a robot to climb stairs, pick up a glass or recognize and interpret speech in 2003. In the opinions of most robotic scientists, we're at least a century away from a thinking, autonomous robot. So the dates in this movie are waaaaay off, I think. I won't even get into time travel (necessary for the story) that many think great thinkings believe is several millenia away, if not impossible.
But those aren't my problems. I suspended my disbelief to accept time travel and the Terminator machines coming from 30 years in the future.
1. How does Skynet take over? No computer software on Earth is linked to every other piece of software. They speak different computer languages. This is so laughable as to discredit the entire Terminator franchise. Furthermore, human beings launch nuclear missles (requires synchronized key turns, code keys and non-automated button pressing). It's done by humans, not a computer. Ridiculous. It is patently IMPOSSIBLE for a rouge computer virus to even take over a satellite/cellular network, much less a missle silo. The only thing it could do is give the President the illusion that Russian missles were on the way, so he would order his generals to launch the counter-attack.
2. I'm sick of military "Command Centers" looking like they do in movies - like Dr. Evil's lair. We're to believe that they're flying a jet/rocket powered test vehicle 20 feet away from the SkyNet computer banks, INDOORS! Has anyone ever seen documentary footage of testing? It's done outside hangars and grey concrete buildings in the desert. I'll bet anyone a million dollars that the Air Force doesn't operate a single room on the Earth that looks remotely like the "Command Center" in T3. And they happen to have all their battle robots, hover drones, particle accelerator and SkyNet computers in one place? SURE. Did the screenwriters ever talk to anyone who was ever in the military? Los Alamos Labs don't look like dat.
3. What kind of security lets Arnold and the 2 kids into the most secret Air Force facility on the face of the planet, loaded to the gills with ammo and guns? Huh?
4. Why do the machines keep sending 1 Terminator? Why not 10? They keep screwing up. Why not ensure things? Why not build a Terminator suicide bomber? Why not just throw your power cell at John Conner when you get within a mile of him? Is SkyNet incompetent?
5. Why is the TX less advanced that the T1000? The T1000 was indescructable except by melting. The TX went down in an explosion. She has a metal skeleton inside that can be broken. This is progress?
6. Why did the missle shoot through the office window and not kill anyone? Why can people be thrown repeatedly onto cement floors without breaking ribs or limbs?
7. Where was everyone at the old nuclear fallout facility? Why did it have power? Where were all the soldiers at the new command center? Shouldn't they be guarding the place?
8. If Arnold took out his 2nd and last power cell, how did he manage to move his body and arm to stick it in the TX's mouth? Wouldn't he be absent a power sourace the instant he unhooked his final power cell? My digital camera ceases to take pictures if I remove its battery.
9. Why did they take off in a Cessna 172, yet fly inside a DeHavilland? Totally different planes.
10. How can "taking control" of the computer chips of a Ford Crown Victoria cop car suddenly give it the ability to move its own steering wheel and press its own brakes? Absolutely idiotic.
11. How many bullets can fly, explosions demolish things and cars disintegrate without loss of life? I guess the director drew inspiration from the A-Team. Violence has no consequence.
12. Are we to believe that on a planet with 6 billion people that simpletons like John Conner, his buddy at the Carl's Jr. drive-thru and a vet assistant will become the last hope of the Earth? Stretches believability to the max.
13. Why can the T101 perfectly replicate voice and speech patterns of others, but speaks with a thick Austrian accent in default mode? (I'm just being a smart aleck now.)
The more I think about this movie, the more I realize how much it blows. This movie is absurd science fiction but doesn't play it for fun like Men In Black or Ghostbusters. It plays things straight and that's why it is no good for anyone with a brain. More than stupid science fiction, it just doesn't make any sense, plotwise.
Skip it in the theater but catch it on video. About as good as Alien 3, which was also a franchise that dropped Cameron when they got to part 3!