The franchise just got a lot better!

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2003)

I'll try not to sound like a Warner Brothers Exec. with my comments on this movie, but it's going to be difficult I'm afraid.
Let me just get it out of my system: T3 - Rise of the machines is one of the best (if not the best) Action/sci-fi movies I have ever seen!!! Now there I said it...
It's hard though, to judge a movie these days as you become older and older cause the first time impressions will never become the same as when you saw like The Terminator as a 10 year old boy back in 1984. Still from time to time a movie comes along that simply grabs you by the ba...(well they are fragile) within 10 minutes and don't let go till you've tormented your wallet with half a dusin repeat viewings, which will be the case for me with this movie, once it's officially released. The last time I experienced this was in Â´98 when The Matrix was out (something that sadly wasn't repeated with "Reloaded").
Terminator 3 is simply AMAZING IMO. It is fast paced, in your face high definition action wrapped around a tight storyline with some very fulfilling revelations, but as an action piece, this baby comes close to being orgasmic!
Now though I may sound like it, I'm no Arnold/Terminator fanboy, but I AM an actionjunkie, a true sucker for clever action epics.
This movie took me by total surprise and that may be the explanation as to why I seem so positive. I really didn't expect much from this movie judging by the trailers. Not even the last trailer was particular good IMO, but let me tell you this is one of the rare times when a trailer truly didn't reveal anything from the movie. T3 is SOO MUCH bigger than what the trailer makes it appear.
I loved T2, it's one of my fav sci-fi movies, but T3 is just better! At NO point does this movie drag and though it does rehash most of the scenes from T2 it makes sure to nudge these scenes up like 50-100%, but at the same time it introduces a lot of new and fresh jaw-droppers. This movie will leave scars on the furniture of the theaters from all the nails that will dig into the seats.
To you skeptics out there, and I now there are plenty, FORGET YOUR WORRIES and go see this thing, cause NO ONE can claim to NOT be entertained by T3.
Isn't there anything negative? Well there was a corny cameo from T2 that I didn't like and I was certain I would hear the famous Brad Fiedel theme playing to the credits which it didn't (we got some remixed version in the end though). Other than that it was a perfect movie!
5/5