T-3 had better not risen

Rating: 5/10 (7 August 2003)

After a lot of quite positive critics about Terminator 3 and many positive reviews I thought that maybe T-3 would not be so bad as I had imagined. When it finally was released in Germany I was eager to see it on the opening day. I shouldn't have... T-3 is an average action movie but nothing extraordinary. Judged by its predecessors T-3 is inferior in every respect. T-3 neither has the dark atmosphere of the first Terminator nor the epic size of T-2. Okay, maybe one could not expect that, but at least I expected a serious treatment of the heir. However, the first 15 minutes seem to be a parody on T-2 (as if Jerry/David Zucker& Jim Abrahams had directed the bar-scence) and this really annoyed me. Also, the often praised car chase is not as impressive as the one in Reloaded. But that is not the point. The real problem is, that the Terminator is mocked and ridiculed in my opinion and the T-X seems by far not as dangerous as the T-1000 or Schwarzenegger in T-1. Where Cameron created a dark and dense atmosphere, strong characters + state-of-the-art action sequences T-3 hurries from one scene to the next without spending time on the characters or the story. Well, if you liked T-3 it is okay, but I do not think that anyone who loves the first two installments will be really satisfied with Mostows creation.