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Definately missing James Cameron! Review originally written 7/8/03 The first thing you're likely to think as the movie starts is, "this sure doesn't feel like a Terminator movie." And I attribute this mostly the absolutely horrible soundtrack. Brad Fiedel's famous and haunting score of man vs machine is no where to be found. Beltrami does an arrangement of it once...at the end credits. Now I realize that most movie-goers care less about musical scores, but the absense of Fiedel is as strong as if you were going to make a Star Wars sequel and not use John Williams classic score. If your a real fan of the franchise, the second thing you'll notice is a true lack of James Cameron. I must admit, that many of the shots and the cinematography appears right out of the T2 playbook, but it's important to remember Cameron didn't only direct the film, he wrote it. T3 suffers from a real lack of intelligent plotting that is one of Cameron's strongpoints. For the most part, action scene happen because... well they just needed action scenes. The story centers around a now adult John Conner, aimlessly making his way through life now that Judgement Day has successfully been avoided (see T2). But we find out of course that it hasn't, it's just been prolonged 10 years. In this film, Skynet is about to go operational and machines are about to take over the world just as Reese described in T1. But the target isn't only Conner this time. New character Kate Brewster is John's future second in command, and it's she who this time sends back the antiquated T-800 to protect both her and John. The new menace is the T-X which is even more advanced (and somehow less advanced) then the T-1000 from T2. The plot is pretty formulaic, and follows the traditional Terminator style. There's definately nothing cerebral about it, and you know pretty quickly into the film just how the T-X is gonna bite it thanks to some pretty obvious forshadowing. Most of it is just an excuse to have Arnold kicking [butt] against the virtually indestructable T-X that should have destroyed him in the first 15-minutes (she's an anti-terminator terminator). At least in this film, Arnold's Terminator is much more a killing machine than the "now I know why you cry" touchy-feely Terminator from T2. Despite all the flaws that are glaring once you stop and think about this film when it's over, it's still hard not to enjoy it. On it's own, it's a pretty fun hollywood blockbuster. As a sequel to one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time, it's lacking. But fortunately, it's good enough that you're glad to have it rather than no sequel at all. I particularly enjoyed the ending. While not executed as well as it could have been, it brings a lot more meaning to the story rather than just the same old, "how they gonna defeat the terminator this time?" type of plot. It leaves a huge opening for a sequel, but also serves as a fitting ending to the series, should this be it. All in all, I have to give T3 a positive review. Even though the James Cameron fan in me questions much of this film, it's still entertaining, and that's all this film sets out to do. It's a fun roller coaster ride that shouldn't be missed in the theatre if you at all enjoy big action blockbusters. email this review to a friend
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