They spent over $170 million on this?

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2003)

I went into this movie not expecting much, afterall it lacked Linda Hamilton, James Cameron, even the man that did the musical score. Arnold was there but, hey, you've seen the type of movies he has been in lately. Lets just say you can tell this wasn't written by Cameron. Its doesn't even seem to be written to any coherent line of reason. Why would the Terminatrix go after John's lieutenants if the other two could care less in the past? Why did her hand magically fix itself when her programming told her it was broken? Why would Sarah Connor fill her coffin with weapons? How does a machine remote control cars when no such computer exists in said cars? How the hell did the Terminatrix even find and then outrun John's truck with that huge semi truck (They can't move THAT fast!) Where did the computer virus come from? How is Skynet still Skynet since it was originally a mainframe but now a software program? The original films say Skynet killed virtually everyone when they tried to pull the plug when humanity feared Skynet's sentience yet here they supposedly can't since its "software" and not "hardware". So the memory of the Terminator from T2 was false since that data came from Skynet? Why didn't this Terminator kill humans since he didn't swear to John like T2 and especially since he could only take orders from Claire Danes? What was up with the one liners by Arnold? How was this Terminator's power source different from the two prior movies? In Terminator and T2 you see the main power source is in the abdominal area with a back up. Here he has some stupid slot where he can crack it open and turn it into a mini nuclear bomb. Why did the military have multiple prototypes? Last time I checked a prototype of anything was simply that one piece to be tested and then built in mass if it worked. Why the hell did the place even have a particle accelerator when their work in the lab had nothing to do with atomics?!?!? How did the Terminatrix even pull herself off the magnet when it was never turned off? Why did John continue to hang around the L.A. area if he didn't want to be found? And this is only a few of my problems with the flick. The acting wasn't that good (John is definately not an inspiring leader), the plotting was slow, and they attempted too much humor (the growing breasts was useless and sophmoric). James should have gone with the original T2 ending of John Connor playing in the future with his daughter as Sarah watched talking of how they averted Judgement Day. This trash was far from worthy of the Terminator name and, funniest of all, I saw this movie the day after the premier and the theater was virtually empty. Is that a good sign?