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The WORST!!!!!
Without giving anything way, the ending of this movie makes the heroic actions of the John's mother and father in the first two movies completely useless!!!

Arnold's last word's to John: "I'll see you". This sounds nice until you think about the reason he is going to see him!

A cheesy yuck-fest that tarnishes the rep of the first two movies.

Wow...just, Wow
No one really thought Terminator 3 would be made. Sure, the title "Rise of the Machines" has been tossed around since at least 1997, but with Cameron's near-perfect T2 and the franchise being more than a decade old, most fans didn't give any serious consideration to a third installment. But someone decided to go ahead and make T3 anyway.

I went into T3 with low expectations. All the comments I'd heard on the movie pinned it as average to slightly above-average at best. The director was so-so, the running time was way under T2, only Arnold chose to return, and the box office reciepts weren't that great. And sure enough most of the movie matched those expectations. Fun action, but a lot of re-hashing of what had been done in the first two movies. Minimal character development, just enough to make the viewer give a damn about the heroes. Competent direction, but everything seemed to operate on such a small scale, considering that this was supposed to be the last hours before judgement day.

So far, the movie was a decent popcorn flick that was worth my money and thankfully didn't manage to embarass the legacy of the movies before it.

Then the final few minutes of the movie rolled, and everything changed. I don't know how I managed to not spoil the ending for myself, considering all the reviews I read, but I was totally blown away. Yeah, I heard they were leaving room for a Terminator 4, but I didn't expect it to happen this way. Suddenly, the small scale of the movie seems to make sense, as if it's all clever misdirection of some sort. T3 could've worked a lot better with a more stylistic director and a slightly longer running time, but as it stands, its ending makes it a more-than-worthy entry in the franchise. Before, I dreaded another installment. Now, I'm looking forward to it.

WB's treatment of T3 on DVD is something of a disappointment. Audio/visual is very good, and thankfully the movie comes in a keepcase instead of a snapper, but the supplements are just there to take up space. There's a good deleted scene that must be watched by all fans, and a few decent featurettes, but most of the bonus material is promotional in nature. Given how loaded the past Terminator discs have been, T3 simply doesn't compare.

T3 is a great popcorn movie with a jaw-dropping ending. WB needs to learn how to make a decent 2-disc special edition of its summer movies. 4 stars.

Thought nothing could be better than Judgement Day...
...but I thought wrong! This movie was as good or better than part 2. This movie makes this whole trilogy make sense. When I saw part 2 about a decade+ ago, I thought how could a robot change form, that's just pure fantasy or magic. But with the advent of nanotechnology, it's possible in the future to do so.
Plus, if Skynet was destroyed in part 2 how could Judgement Day be inevitable? I don't want to give out spoilers, but it's called the "internet" and distributed computing where there is no single stand-alone supercomputer, etc...
And how could John Connor be a shrimp and save the future? Well, you'll find out near the end. One clue... again, "Communications", the key to all wars, without it you're as blind as a bat... This movie has superb high rate, mindblowing special visual and audio FX! This movie sets the new standard in special effects and Sci-Fi storytelling (whereas other Sci-Fi movies failed... Star Trek??)

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