"This commercial fluff was nothing but a money-maker to bridge Cameron's work with the hanging Terminator 4."

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2003)

If you're looking for mindless, repetitive, and hardly groundbreaking CG action sequences, T3 should give you underwhelming entertainment, and leave you with absolutely nothing, except how the script was approved, to reflect upon. Cameron would be rolling over in his grave (if he were dead) at this piece of marketing garbage. The previous movies' ability to stand on their own, and Judgment Day's excellent departures from the original to make a fresh experience. This commercial fluff was nothing but a money-maker to bridge Cameron's work with the hanging Terminator 4. Not to mention interesting and suspenseful storylines, character's that are a little thicker than cardboard cutouts, and flat out BRILLIANT action sequences, even without the capabilities of today's computer animation.
The reversal's presented in the earlier films (Arnold, the traditional hero, becoming the relentless killing machine in the former, and then turning the tables to become an always-there dependable father figure) were not here. And while you can basically predict the ending's of Cameron's films, you don't see (SPOILERS) Reese or the Terminator's death at the end of each picture. The hack's responsible for this mess could have at least thought about throwing us a curve _somewhere_.
As far as I'm concerned, this is nothing but an expensive and quality piece of mediocre "fan fiction," not part of the actual Terminator continuity. They stopped Judgment Day in movie two, this is just a side story.
Remember: Just because Peter Jackson and the Wachowskis did it, doesn't mean you can.