No Sign of Termination

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2003)

If all action movies were as much fun as this one, perhaps I wouldn't hate the genre so much.
I suppose it helps that I'm already familiar with the back story and characters, but I think more important are that it has just enough intelligence, and assumes that the viewer does too, plus plenty of humour and even wit.
Fears that the lack of the James Cameron panache would be a severe setback proved ill-founded. It's a great roller coaster ride, but perhaps just a shade less so than T2.
And here's something I thought I'd never be saying ... Arnie is so good. His deadpan delivery of some of his hilarious lines is just spot on, and he even makes you feel the confusion of the man-machine faced with moral dilemmas. In fact, in a role that is really just a high tech version of Frankenstein's monster, I'd say he even gives the great Boris Karloff a run for his money.
And the ending this time leaves us in absolutely no doubt that Arnie (and the others) will be back.
Unless he becomes Governor of California, of course.