Without Cameron at the helm, Arnie and co descend into parody

Rating: 5/10 (27 June 2003)

The director certainly knows how to control big action scenes as evidenced in the likes of Breakdown and U-571 yet the the scriptwriters have lost the plot when it comes to. plot, and there is far too much parody, turning Arnie into a caricature, like he is in the Simpsons.
This just doesn't feel like a Terminator movie. It's more like a cover version, say The Datsuns covering an AC/DC song.
Some of Arnie's lines are so bad such as `It's time', `I'm back' and, probably the most embarrassing part in the film, when he tells a guy at a checkout `talk to the hand'.
We knew it was coming, we knew it was never gonna be as good as part 2, and it isn't.
On the plus side, the new TX is very fit in her cherry red leather outfit and there are some really funny scenes and a couple of good action scenes.