When I first saw the previews of T3, I thought it could never live up to how great and explosive T2 Judgment Day was. Although it was not as
groundbreaking as T2 when it first came out with this new style of special effects, it definitely held its own. The cast of actors were very good and acted very real. It was not always serious and had a great sense of humor to it. The three main things that made this movie rock was the new T3 robot, the crane scene and the showdown at the robot lab.
The new T3 not only looked unreal but did many unreal shocking acts right as her presence first came on screen. She was programmed to come and kill
commanders of the future enemy army out to stop them. It was shocking how fast and heartless she aimed and shot. On one scene she pulls up to a drive through and kills one future Lieutenant. She also goes to another ones house and asks for one of them by name and then unloads on him once the name was confirmed.

The crane scene made you not blink because you wanted to make sure nothing was missed. It kept you off your seat from beginning to end. It starts
with the T3 hijacking this big crane to chase after her targets. The original Terminator, played by Arnold, chases her in an Indian motorcycle. The stunts were very unreal and looked like it took time to perfect them. Arnold takes over the crane for a brief moment. The T3 does not stop the pursuit and eventually catches up. Our heroes finally end up somewhere in the desert. They know that
somehow this deadly killing machine will find them again. The showdown at the robot lab gives you a vision of how this massive war of the future starts. It is very intense and makes you feel like something
of this nature can one day take place. This is the closest that the T3 gets to eliminating her targets. For a small moment it looks like the T3 might be
defeated. It does not happen and our heroes are once again saved by the original Terminator. In this battle, The original terminator shows some kind of human type feeling. He has to not only battle with the T3 but the program that she has implanted in him.

This movie fulfills an overdue hunger that all Terminator fans have been waiting for. It is definitely in the same league as the other two movies before it. I would definitely recommend this to anyone. Even the ending leaves you hungry for more. Lets just hope it is not going to be another decade before we can get another taste of this sci-fi thriller.

The Story

Don’t worry, I won’t spoil the movie, not severely anyway. As we remember from T2, John Connor and the Terminator dealt with a metal-morph cyborg killer named T-1000, whose role is to kill Connor. But the killer failed. As a result, Connor stopped Judgment Day, a day when intelligent machines, engineered by Skynet, would have become self-aware and destroy mankind.

Ten years later in T3, Connor lives a jobless, druggie-styled life. He has no record of existence to hide from Skynet, until the future steps in with a more technologically advanced (and beautiful) cyborg called T-X. She’s faster, smarter, more powerful and dangerous than the T-1000. Not only is Connor targeted, but also out of nowhere a pet veterinarian (named Kate?) is on T-X’s hit list.

Out of nowhere, Connor and the veterinarian realize that Judgment Day is only three hours until the end of the world. Then original Terminator comes back, but this times as a replica of the original from T2. Now it’s up to the three of them to stop Judgment Day, or else civilization is blown to pieces.

The Critique

Horrible story, isn’t it? It seems like it’s nothing new, and the storyboard is all generic. Other than that, the relationship of the veterinarian to Connor seems a bit out of place in the Terminator movie series. As far as action, you will lose count the number of explosions that occured in the movie. T3 is sadly nothing more but myriad of big movie props all perfectly set up to make alot of action. That's what T3 had to rely on, to make it good. The typical popcorn movie-goer won’t complain, however, especially the guys.

Things that happened in T2 will be more memorable than T3. For example, in T2 the Terminator was driving at night with the lights off and John Conner asked if he could see the road, and John teaches him words like "dip shit". Also, at the ending the Terminator makes a "thumbs-up" gesture as he lowers himself into a lava-like pit to terminate himself. Those are kick ass classics. Notice how these aren't even the action scenes yet? Wow, good job Cameron, but no pat-in-the-back for the guy who directed T3 because you won’t find anything memorable in that movie.

I like all James Cameron movies: T1, T2, True Lies, Aliens, Titanic, and more. If he did T3, it would have been another great movie. Geetarman gives it a C+.