Diet Terminator 2

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2003)

...that's the only fault with the movie. There is a stack of rewatchable action but far too much of Arnie from the future knowing everything and so speaking the plot, and cue stupefied reactions from Danes and Stahl. Done last film, to excess, and so despite the top-notch action, this movie feels thin and Avid-edited to the bare bones.
This is The Machines Strike Back and does the workmanlike setup job well- and the ending's very ballsy for a summer film. Then again none of the Terminator movies ended particularly happily.
Please C2/Intermedia, get T4 going within the next five years and stop cheating the audience- give us the future war (and not just in dreams or flashbacks/flashforwards) which will round off the series nicely- even split it into two. Whatever happens, we can't be waiting another decade for it when the technology for the effects is here now. T4 cannot be yet another retread of T2, please.