Not a worthy sequel.

Rating: 7/10 (3 July 2003)

T3 is more of an attempt to simply do a sequel for money. The plot line is fairly convoluted and seems more like the second part in a trilogy.
Arnold is simply Arnold. He is okay, the action is as expected, lines seems more forced and the writing is not as witty as T2. Nick Stahl seems more like a TV actor and doesn't have the anger that Eddie Furlong portrayed in T2. Claire Danes does a decent job as his future spouse. Kristanna Loken as T-X is a little confusing as a character and a Terminator. Is she an improvement? She has more mechanical breakdowns than the T-1000 series. She is a babe. She tries to be icy like Robert Patrick did in T2, but to me she needs more training.
My major beef about the movie is some obvious script flaws. Claire's father is in charge of an secret Air Force research lab and she along with John Conner and Arnold manage to simply waltz into this facility without even a glitch, loaded with weapons and explosives. Good security, especially in the times we live in now.
The other downer is the end. How can the future be written in stone. I find this extremely unbelievable that not one thing all these people do, doesn't appear to change one thing in the future time line.

I wish James Cameron was involved with this project. He is a much better writer/director for this type of genre.