Liked it better when it was called T-2

Rating: 2/10 (12 July 2003)

This movie blew chunks, wanna know why? Cause until the very end, it was practically identical to T-2. The chase scene was nothing but destructive, other than alot of buildings and vehicles getting demolished it was ho hum.....I wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat or anything. Basically, a more sophisticated terminator, T-X, comes from the future to kill people, namely John Connor and his future wife. Arnold, comes back as the "has been" terminator (same model as in the other 2 movies) to try to stop the "faster, stronger, more advanced T-X". Ooooooh the drama.....wait this sounds familiar. The only difference was that this time the "bad" terminator was a female. Haven't we seen this plot line already in T-2???
Let me just say that I loved the original Terminator, and I really thought that T-2 was ahead of its time back in the day, and I enjoyed it almost as much as the 1st one because of that. But Cameron directed those two, not the 3rd one. These guys look like they couldn't come up with a new way of filming, so just followed the same basic principles that T-2 had. Trust me when I say that if you've seen T-2, then you've seen T-3 already.

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The only difference is that in T-2, judgement day was averted, in this one judgement still happened, basically nukes were set off all around the world thanks to the machines. So while judgement day was avoided in T-2, it is learned in this movie that judgement day was only postponed. I swear that is the only "new" idea in T-3 that they used. It "could" have been really cool had the nukes gone off in say the middle of the movie and then we got to see John Connor and his mate still trying to survive the aftermath with a terminator after them....but no. They didn't even show the nukes going off!!!! All they did was in the final 2 minutes of the movie, show some mickey mouse grid with lines going across it representing the path of all the nukes so you could get a sense of just how many were set off. Great job Hollywood. The best aspect of the movie that you could have used, you decided to not even show.
Basically, it boils down to this. The future of the humans comes down to the hands of John Connor and his future wife. After 2 failed attempts to kill Connor in the first two movies, they try again. Like the 2nd movie, Arnold is sent back from the future to stop the more advanced T-X before she kills her targets. Like the 2nd movie, it is a "struggle" and she is always right behind them just "ever so close" but yet not ever close enough to finish the job. By the end of the movie, just as they "want" you to think that the T-X is about to kill her targets (ya as if), Arnold, our hero, saves the day. Oh ya, and he spouts out yet another dumb one liner like "you are terminated" to the other terminator.
There was one part where the T-X, who can control machines, got to Arnold and was controlling him against Connor and his future wife. This could have been a cool twist, like a blast from the past from Terminator the original, but no. This only lasted like a minute or two as Arnold shut himself down so he wouldn't "fail" his mission. So there went that little twist, yet another missed opportunity to make this movie unique.

God I hope they don't release a 4th one because this is starting to get as predictable as the "Rocky" series. There were attempts at humor in this movie, but they were "few and far between" and not very funny even when you saw them. Anyone who pays to see this movie once can be forgiven, but if you pay to see it twice, then you should seek a CAT scan to see what is wrong with your head.
Macc