It's okay.

Rating: 6/10 (22 November 2019)

Terminator 3 has the misfortune of following up on Terminator 1 & 2: an impossibly difficult task that can only result in shortcomings if James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd and Linda Hamilton aren't even touching this production at all. Terminator 3 is a noble if fatally flawed follow-up on two of sci-fi cinema's greatest stories; there was no way Terminator 3 could follow up on the T-1000 in Judgement Day and the story there was wrapped up just nicely. So where was the real need to continue? Well, it was because Judgement Day was a box office tsunami: and they HAD to do a sequel in some form I guess.
Terminator 3 is a well-meaning but overly-stuffed and pandering venture in the Terminator canon. It's loaded with fan-service in reference to the first two Terminators: there's that psychologist from the first two movies, and the T-800's pacifism in T-2 is visually referenced in the form of 'Human Casualties: 000' screen-text from Arnie's point-of-view. Noble efforts, but it's unnecessary if it doesn't add anything new to the story.
T-3 is okay. It's passable action and escapism, but the original Terminator and Judgement Day are still the best by a ridiculously wide margin.