He's back. So what?

Rating: 3/10 (11 November 2005)

To give you a taste of how I feel about the latest addition to the Terminator franchise, let's have a look at the memorable lines that came out of them.
Terminator 1: I'll be back.
Terminator 2: Hasta la vista, Baby.
Terminator 3: Talk to the hand.
There's one of your problems. The first two lines are cool, but the third one is not, just like the movie. It doesn't even come close to measuring up. (the fact that "Talk to the hand" conjures up images of Fran Drescher really doesn't help it either) This movie is a very lame descendant of the other two. Everything good about this movie has been done even better in the last two, with the exception of the new villain, who is hotter than a four alarm fire. Nick Stahl and Claire Danes are okay. The problem here is Arnold. Whatever gift he had for playing this role is not here. Instead, he just looks and sounds ridiculous in this movie. Now, as far as the plot is concerned, what happened to the feeling of hope and the message of "No fate but what we make for ourselves." It is lost in this film, replaced with "No matter what we do, we're gonna get screwed by Judgement Day, anyway." Bottom line: This movie is not a worthy successor to the other two Terminator movies at all.