Fantastic Action/Sci-Fi Film

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2003)

I wrote a comment earlier on this film and feel compelled to write another. I really love this movie. I can understand the people who say that it isn't as good as T1 or T2 and what have you, but who can honestly say that Arnold has made a better film than T3 since his last collaboration with James Cameron? Seriously, folks... True Lies was released 9 years ago! T3 breaks the string of bad/mediocre Arnold flics.
Some people have really gotten onto the screenwriters for T3. News Flash: T3 was as inevitable as is the human race eventually destroying itself. The writers did what they absolutely HAD to do to have the series make sense. T3 did not render the previous time travel philosophies of T1 and T2 irrelevent. T1 said that time was cyclical. T2 said that some things can be changed. T3 said that some things can't. How does T3 conflict with T1 and T2? Simple answer is it doesn't. It simply says that some things no matter how much you want them to, cannot change. Destiny. There may be no fate but what we make, only within the confines of a certain set of rules.
In sum, T3 is a great film. But for the comparisons to T1 and T2, I would say it's near flawless. I think that the people who are criticizing this would be best off going back to watching such masterpieces of cinema as the Bridges of Madison County and Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. As Arnold says on the commentary track of Conan the Barbarian, "if you believe that (people who like those movies would like T3) you also believe that there're Richard Simmons Jr's running around!"