What the hell happened

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2003)

I just saw T3 today and what can I say but "ughhh" The magic of Jim Cameron was clearly, blindingly missing. T2 was a huge step up from T1. But T3 was a similarly large step back.
Where was the imagination that T1 and T2 had. As for the effects. Yes most of them were good but not in the same way as T2 in its day. And where was the music of Brad Fidel. When you think T1/T2 you think of the Fidel march. Its like Spielberg without Williams.
Maybe I am getting old or something but this film just had nothing going on. I mean nothing: been there, seen it, done it, ALL OF IT and seen it done equally well or better elsewhere. Like the tooooooooo long truck chase.I guess the core of the problem is I can't think of many directors that could have stepped into the shoes of JC on a gig like this. I guess this is an example of the old adage "if it aint bust dont fix it". It was great and now its not.
If there is going to be a T4 (and I now doubt it despite the box office) then Jim Cameron has so be there in the directors chair.
And as for Sarah Connor (and my eldest dauhther is named after her). The way one of the greatest female heroines of the last 20 years was killed off. My god what a total and mind numbing waste.
Still, maybe I will wake up tomorrow and find that it is all a dream.