A parody, a cartoon

Rating: 2/10 (7 November 2003)

This has to be the most ambiguous film I have ever seen. Whoever said it tied all loose ends must have slept through the whole movie. There were so many pointless characters (The train man?), and what's more, characters from the last film and perhaps even the first were rendered hapless and pointless parodies of themselves. I must say that after a very open and somewhat existential start to the series, I felt bombarded with Christian ethos at the end; in other words, I felt that for a series that stressed the futility of purpose and control, I was let down at the end. The worst part of this movie is by far the dialogue, which is chock full of one-liners a la Terminator movies. (I'm actually surprised we didn't get a Matrix cast for world leaders campaign ad somewhere in the middle.) The next worst part is its predictability. Though some of the action scenes were laudable their durations made them boring and tedious. After a great start, the last two movies definitely left it rather bloated and typical of all Hollywood action movies.