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Trust me. Let T2 be the end.
If you're truly a lover of the first two movies, do yourself a favor and pull a 'Highlander 2'...just pretend it doesn't exist and go about your day happily.

But because sometimes my curiosity overcomes my good sense too, I'll be brief and try not to give much of anything away. The facet that makes this film a truly atrocious follow up is the humongous finger it gives, in a thematic sense, to its predecessors. The first two films in the series shared the same, noble theme..."There is no fate but what we make." This not so glorious addition edits that slightly to read..."Oh, yeah, we were wrong. There really is a fate you can't escape no matter what you do, so you might as well give up." Huh?

Secondly, the Terminator has been reduced to the robotic equivalent of Lou Costello. Sure, it's dangerous, but mostly it's just the straight man. In the first movie, it was terrifying. Remember when it started wearing the shades to cover the gaping wound in its face after it had just surgically removed the remains of its own eye? Now its a cheap gag with pink plastic shades. Have we really fallen so far?

Despite Arnold's involvement, this movie was apparently put together by people who had no clue what the orignal and its sequel were about. Trust me, when that last Terminator's thumbs up disappeared into the molten metal, the world was saved. It's better that way.

Excellent
Great movies, great effects..............it also leave the oportunity open for a next terminator movie.....

Just as good as #2
Well after 12 whole years of waiting Terminator fans were givin another chance to see Arnie blow some stuff up and survive rediculous amounts of explosions and so on and so forth. Anyway this time Arnie returns as a different cyborg from the same line as the one from the first two (so he doesn't remember all of the fun he shared with Edward Furlong in the second installment). He's back to pretect John Connor (this time played by Nick Stahl) and Kate Brewster (who happens to be a girl from John's past, played by Claire Danes) from Skynet's toughest cyborg the T-X (played by Kristanna Loken).

This third installment in the Terminator series dissapointed a lot of T-Fans but not me! It wasn't as good as the first but I honestly thought it was just as good, if not slightly better than #2 (and you can just bite me Ebert). I just thought that the action was all there and it was ther apleanty (just what I expected and wanted from this film too). Now to comment on the acting. Nick Stahl, although he did a good job I just didn't think he was right for the charcter. John Connor is supposed to be a "rebel" and they even comment on how he is still one today but Stahl didn't come off as that type of guy but rather just a normal guy. Claire Danes did good as well and she was perfect for her part. Kristanna Loken didn't really need to be there, it could have been anyone playing her character...man or women (but she was great to look at). Arnie gives a performance that is all that you'd expect it to be. He is quite funny in the movie too (the line "talk to the hand" was awesome). The visuals were stunning. But unlike the second one (which broke new grounds in the way of visuals) you see this kind of thing everyday, so it is a very typical action movie style of visuals. The movie was very exciting and action packed. It is one of those movies that makes you fell breathless and makes you fell like you've been out running. Not to mention that it makes you think at points and really brings the "Terminator" saga to new levels.

I don't know what everybody's problem with this was. It was a fun, action-packed ride that won't be forgotten (and Ebert can just shove it).

~This review originally appeared on my "Yahoo Movies" file metalhead_movieman~

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