Pure twaddle

Rating: 4/10 (5 October 2003)

It is sheer coincidence that I saw this film just when Schwarzenneger presented his nomination in the political arena. But not surprising, really, when Hollywood is taking over the Capitol and the trend that started with Reagan's Star Wars shield to protect American innocents from the evil threatening the globe, has been taking new twists and turns. The obsession has a long history, since the invention of the cinema which has played a far greater part in American politics than any other single influence. From Griffith's fascistic Birth of a Nation to milder modes of Star Trek and currently Star Gate. The message is always, "We, the American Nation, know best, and will fight to the death to convert the others to our own way of 'democracy'".
T3 is no different, the righteous America defeats evil (even in the form of a very sexy terminatrix). It is as if the collective American ID is trying to invite a catastrophe of immeasurable magnitude beyond the make-belief scenarios of Hollywood. 9/11 will sharpen this paranoia enormously until the whole continent turns into a kind of Howard Hughes. To exorcise this growing paranoia in films like T3 and others of the same ilk, is like holding a tress of garlic against the invisible face of absolute evil.
It must not be forgotten that in the Forbidden Planet what destroyed the planet was the uncontrollable ID.