What’s not to dig? Terminator 3 ends up a little unbalanced and failing to match T2, but hell, few movies can. Shit gets blown up and machines run rampant. It’s Arnold as the Terminator, and it’s obvious how much he loves the role.
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This Terminator model didn’t download a copy of T2 in its databanks, which maybe is part of the problem with their chemistry.
Arnold is Arnold, though he really doesn’t get many “moments” in this movie. She’s fine here and a good actor, but she seems like an odd choice for the role. He’s fine here, but it’s just…strange especially since Ed Furlong would have been the right age. The cast is mostly good though it’s odd seeing Nick Stahl in the John Connor role. It’s probably the second best part of the film. It’s hard not to strangely enjoy the final moments when Connor makes it to the fallout shelter just as the destruction of civilization as we know it occurs (and then finally we get the damn music we want). I think most folks did dig (or maybe got off) to the final act (spoilers ahead) with Skynet becoming active and the early Terminator machines get to work. She looks the part, but at times she appears to get off on the action, which ends up weird for everyone. It’s a shame Loken didn’t find her own path. Sure, Patrick played robot just like Arnold, but he made the character feel different, sleeker. She’s obviously beautiful, but she fails to make the role her own like Arnold or Robert Patrick. Do something new…which brings me to Kristanna Loken. It made sense in T2 because he ventured into a biker bar. Hell, the fact that he has to go all black leather again is a little silly. Though “talk to the hand” might be worse. That male strip sequence is too goofy, and Arnold in those star shaped glasses is equally goofy. Somewhere along the way, Mostow and company decided to cute things up a bit, which I don't mind, but I must bitch a little. Rewatch that bathroom brawl between the Terminators toward the end. Maybe they relied on CGI too much here, but the T-X just kinda exists.
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Speaking of not matching, somehow, a full decade after Stan Winston changed the special effects game with T2, this round of Terminator effects somehow doesn’t ring as impressive. Obviously more great action occurs (that casket shootout is stupid fun), but it can’t match that chase. They practically blew the budget in the first 40 minutes (Arnold took a minor pay cut to ensure the scene worked). The only problem? All the action that follows seems a bit of a letdown after such a spectacular start. It’s freakin’ ridiculous, but also damn entertaining as it remains a fine sequence that still looks and sounds absolutely great. The best in show comes when the T-X drives that massive sign truck through a few blocks of Los Angeles, proceeding to destroy even entire city block (while Arnold holds onto the crane). Thankfully, T3 didn’t get cheap on the action. We all hoped T3 would do the same with tense, believable action that could make everyone collectively shit themselves. Director Jonathan Mostow seemed like a hot director at the time, coming off the overachieving (and fully entertaining) Breakdown and U-571: both effective, down to earth action flicks that worked damn well. With that said, it seemed like T3 was in safe hands. Granted, I knew it wasn’t a James Cameron film and that it couldn’t possibly live up to the expectations. I have to admit I dug T3 when I initially saw it back in the day. Sure, it’s understandable as actors get too old, move on, or just…die, but movies are a business so if there’s a dollar to be made, well by God that dollar will (attempted to) be earned.Ī full 12 years after Terminator 2 blew everyone’s f*cking minds, here came Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. However, I have to say I’d rather see a sequel (thank you George Miller) than an entire franchise rebooted over and over again. It’s always strange when studios decide to make a sequel to something more than a decade later. “Thankfully, T3 didn’t get cheap on the action.” Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) We’re hoping this column will promote constructive and geek fueled discussion. THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH.