Terminator on the cheap. A rental at best.

Rating: 5/10 (19 July 2003)

The very beginning gives you a clue - there is no theme music, no fancy intro, nothing - straight into the film. At that point, it recycles a lot from the previous movies, though in fairness, trying to be funny. It was cute - but, well, it was not that funny.
The script for the play was likely the first draft on a napking of the treatment. Very thin, probably a few pages long. The story, very linear and predictable. While the new terminator is sexy-scary, we are never in actual fear for the lives of our heros or the success of thier mission. The ending twist was nice, but too late to save the film.
There was not any 'wow' in new special effects or action sequences like there was seeing T2 - so there was some dissapointment there. More like Terminator 2.01, without the good story.
Arnolds work is ok, but thin. Too much reused from other films.