Superfluous movie

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2004)

T1 was great, T2 a worthy sequel but T3.....? I don't know where to start, is it the non-existing plot, the bad acting or the ignorance of details which I disliked most? There are so many senseless moments that I just name a few of them: There is a scene where the T-X is lying on the roof of a car with her target John Conor sitting inside. As we see in almost every scene the pure strength and power of T-X is incredible, so what should be easier than simply destroying the roof and killing John Connor? But what is she doing? Relaxing on the roof (maybe she wanted to get a tan) and trying to saw the roof. I mean, why not pushing through the roof? A really big flaw in the story: after Skynet has taken over control robots kill all people in the military base and control the entire building. Only John Connor and his future wife survive, find a plane and fly away. Fly away? Where have all the robots gone??? Also it was interesting to learn that coffins and cars are bulletproof by default. And so it goes on and on.... Of course the special effects were good. The best one was definitely to let Arnold look like as if the last 20 years did not happen. He really didn't give the impression to be 50something.
Nevertheless I give it a 5 because the action is quite entertaining. Unfortunately there is no single moment where T3 can hold the standard set by its 2 predecessors.