FUN-FILLED WILD RIDE

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2003)

At last! the return of an outrageous, rambunctious, tightly paced and funny adventure flick that doesn't take itself too seriously and doesn't mind being a self-parody.
I am so grateful that T3 does not get bogged down with the hokey mysticism of the new `Star Was' trilogy, the pseudo-techno babble of `The Matrix', and the sappy self-indulgent New Age-ism of the "Star Trek" series.

It's just a good old beat-em-up, shoot-em-up yarn with a simple theme: artificial intelligent machines hate us and they're relentlessly bent on killing us. Period.
Without getting itself sidetracked on boring detail, this trilogy finally acknowledges that the past can't be changed. All the characters are trapped in a time-paradox -- something awkwardly glossed-over in the dismal `Time Machine' remake.
Arnold will go down in history as making more money per spoken word than any actor since silent films. His one-liners are devastating. What more does a robot have to say? The choice of a female Terminator was inevitable, and pretty Kristanna Loken really plays it straight with a chilling determination.