When it said Certificate 12A - I just knew...

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2003)

When it said Certificate 12A - I just knew that this was not going to impress me very much at all. I'm going to keep this brief and I would like to point out at this point that this is my opinion of the film.
Terminator 1 & 2 are timeless classics; violent and explosive with a very well thought out and deeply profound story at the heart driving it along - it is that mixture that made them classics. The effects were not over-done, they were charming for their simple look in T1, a look that was greatly complex at the time. The Terminator was cool, he was a monster and you could see why Sarah Connor was afraid of him.
Terminator 3 is quite simply, a terrible sequel that spoils the Terminator series. When you start catering for the kids in the cinema then a movie like this loses all credibility and becomes exactly what this movie is - a 'Boom' movie. 'How many elements can we computerise in this movie without actually replacing human beings?' wonders Jonathan Mostow and the people on my hitlist who wrote it and forgot to include a decent story. Talk about grabbing at straws.
This movie is NOT a Terminator movie. Cameron's vision and his masterpiece has been spoiled, defacated upon by these movie amateurs who quite obviously do not share that mans fastidiousness and need for perfection. People in the cinema were laughing - LAUGHING!!! Termintaor is not a comedy. And how many people does he Terminate? None!
I think the T - X should not have been played by the girl; I think Robert Patrick should have been brought back to play the improved Termintor as he's got an evil and sinister look about him. Arnold - well it can't be done without him, but he needed some juicing up. This is NOT a Termintor movie as I said. This is a kids film with a bit of blood and should never have gone ahead.
10 years or so in the making and the biggest disappointment since The Matrix Reloaded.
No Story. No Termintor violence. Too much CG!
Poor, guys. Very Poor!
2/10