The original crew dropped out, this is what happened

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2003)

Being that there are so many points in Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines which could make you realize its a bad movie, its hard to determine the first one that really makes you give up all hope for the remaining hours. I'll help you because its really quite obvious; When Arnold pulls out shades from his leather jacket, puts them and realizes that (Ha Ha!) there star shaped!! Then he smirks and crunches them. If he had left them on you really wouldn't have noticed because the rest of the movie is spent with the bad-ass T-1000 cracking inside joke one-liners about how "robotic" he is.
In an attempt to top T2000 (from T2), they decided that the cool metal skeleton robot could be covered by the really cool liquid metal to form the coolest robot ever! Obviously they realized how stupid that was and just decided to make it a hot chick who can do, literally, anything. You know where this is going because they recycled it from the second movie. John Connors must be saved blah blah blah. The few writing elements which are new to T3 are old to anyone who's seen a movie before.
Even though Arnold has way too many lines for a killing machine, he still plays a great robot. Its easy to pick apart actors who play robots but this was always his best role and he does it better than anyone else. When she wasnt the butt of a joke or timing out the perfect punchline, Clair Danes delivers the only other believable performance in T3. I guess she slipped through the cracks because Nick Stahl and Krisstana Loken text book "acted" there way through the entire movie draining life out of the already decaying script.
If you could orchestrate the perfect bad movie scene by scene you would inevitabley produce T3. It was exciting to watch. Each scene that went by I grew more and more excited to see how they could possibly make this movie any worse. Amazingly, through bad direction weak acting and horrendous writing, they did it! Too bad the Wayans brothers werent involved, at least then we would have known it was going to be a spoof.