Terminatrix fails to whip T3 in to shape.

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2007)

With this film i suspect they tried to redress the criticisms levelled at the T2 film. Leaving the pubescent behind the film concentrates instead on a twenty something John. His mother is dead and he is living 'off grid', working odd day construction, getting paid in cash and getting drunk. He drives recklessly at night on a bike, in short John Conner is in something of a rut. In to his world the film introduces a new Terminater or 'Terminatrix', dressed in a red leather outfit and tightly pinned back hair Kristianna Loken is the machine a teenage boy with a Sn'M fixation would have built. She severely scans her environment, killing her targets with a sadistic smile playing across her cold, model looks. As a machine she doesn't match up to the other two. Her technology seems neither as intimidatingly huge as Arnie or as strange or sinister than the T2. The special effects are OK ,but nothing unique and the action sequences seemed neither plausible or particularly spectacular. Claire Danes as Johns future wife irritates with her shrill whining, and has little chemistry with her two other leads. Nick Stahl is a talented actor and brings a introspective, confused element to the older john conner. Arnie worked hard to regain a younger mans physique, but there is no hiding his age. More ill advised 'Terminater humour' fell flat with me, and was a poor replacement for a darker tone considering the films theme of a nuclear Apocalypse. The films script has huge plot holes in it and inconsistencies which other reviewers have pointed out. Sadly T3 fell foul of the ringing cash machine behind the script and with a 18 certificate, more adult script it could have been so much better. Since it is inevitable that they will make a T4 i hope they at last make the film T2 and T3 should have been.