Not too bad a movie, but...

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2003)

First of all, I didn't look at my watch during the movie, so it couldn't have been a bad movie. I actually quite enjoyed the movie. If I really like it? Quite frankly, I don't know yet. It certainly is a very different movie that T2 was, but so was T2 compared to T1. All in all, it was an action packed movie but somehow I missed a real flow. It seems we were just taken from one scene to another, with bits and pieces missing between them. T3 was not as well edited as T2 was but then again, some of the scenes cut from T2 were quite important for the flow of the movie as well.

A few things quite annoyed me in T3. For example the car chase. Sure action movies and logic are not really very compatible but I just can't understand, how such an advanced machine as the T-X with it's high level AI, could chase John Connor in a huge crane, with the cranes arm wreaking havoc all over the place? I mean the choice of vehicle was quite good as it is tough and everything but the crane knocking down walls and pulling up cars would slow the vehicle somewhat down. It just doesn't feel right.

What I did like, was some of the references to the past, like when John Connor said, that he had to train the T-101 all over again or Dr. Silverman's short appearence and his reaction to Arnie.
All in all, T3 was certainly worth the ticket and it will undoubtedly end up in my DVD collection but I'm not really sure yet, where it will rank in the three Terminator movies so far.