Vote 4 Arnold

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2003)

Terminator 3 is a fun summer film but it needed to be if Arnold Schwarzenegger would be using the film as a platform for his bid for governor in California. It is a clever film to make Arnold into an American hero. Arnold plays a cyborg, a reformed enemy, who is now on the side of humans, who are fighting in a war against the machines who have destroyed the American Way of life. He has been sent back into the past (our present) to prevent John Connor from being assassinated by a sexy Terminatrix (who always looks beautiful and nicely dressed no matter how much damage she endures -- vice versa for Arnold the cyborg, who literally looks like a wreck at the end of the film). The movie is about John Conner and the Terminator, who has been Connor's father figure. Both endure a personal crisis and learn to grow. John Conner becomes the hero he is destined to become but he needed help. The Terminator believes in his destiny and does whatever he can to save from him harm until John Connor reaches his potential. The Terminator, who deems himself as obsolete, becomes corrupted and tries to kill John Connor but he fights against his own program, reboots, and becomes a brand, spanking new cyborg. He sacrifices himself to take out the Teminatrix. The Terminator's main function was not to save John Connor but to inspire him. John Connor becomes the new American hero because of the Terminator. This is the image Arnold wants voters to think when Gray Davis is recalled. Arnold knows he is too old to be the action hero anymore but he has seen action (mostly on film), he is on our side, and he will inspire the young men so that when Judgment Day comes they will be waving Old Glory.