Arnold is finally back.

Rating: 9/10 (2 July 2003)

Arnold defintely returns, not only to the Terminator series, but to good action movies, from a slump of a few years. When I first saw the trailers for this movie I thought it looked like it was going to bomb, and be terrible, especially without Cameron directing it, and Hamilton not returning as Sarah Connor. Then I started hearing good things about it closer to its release, so decided to go see it on it's premiere night. I was amazed, Mostow had pulled it off, a very excellent Terminator movie the lived up to its name. It didn't have as much as a "dark" feel to it as much as the first two, but it did have everything else. The action, the explosions, and Arnie. A couple of scenes did feel like they were remakes from T2, but other than that it was pretty original. The hand-to-hand fighting scenes between the good and bad terminators were off the hook. It was also nice to see some of the machines from the "future wars" to appear in modern day. Some of them didn't look too different from some of the spy planes that the US military are using today, which was kind of creepy. The ending was defintely the icing on the cake, throwing me for a loop, I never expected it to end the way it did. This movie is better than Matrix Reloaded, and quite possibly the best summer action movie of 2003.