This film in the franchise seems like the one movie that everybody has a particular problem with and for good reason... but despite these grasps, I am certain that is not has bad of a movie has it may look on first watch.
Taking place several years after the events of Terminator 2; we now fallow an aged John Connor who lives hidden from the world and avoiding any kind of technology, because the machines were unable to track Connor in that time so they decide to target the other high ranking members of the resistance instead, a new T-X model is sent to destroy them, including John´s secong in command and future wife, Katherine Brewster. Again a terminator is sent to the past to protect John and Kate from the T-X and ensure they survive the impending Judgement Day.
Let me first focus on the bad things; starting by the fact they they pretty much brake the well put together ending of terminator 2, where the message was that the future is the one we create and we shape our selves, terminator 3 says "Nope" and says that judgement day is inevitable in a very dumb explanation that pretty much certifies that there really wasn´t enough tough put while writing coming across has lazy. Another thing is the T-X, she is not has much of a danger has the T-1000 from the last movie who was liquid metal and almost seemed indestructible; the T-X comes across has an improved version of the Terminator from the first movie, the fact that she has notable battle scars is proof of how inferior she is has a threatening villain, she is indeed more powerful than the regular terminator sent to protect John and Kate but is nowhere near has dangerous has the T-1000.
John himself is also kinda lame, the kid he seemed to be in the last film dozen´t seem at all into what he became in this movie at all, I don´t believe that the rebel Connor from T2 would become what he is in T3 at all; I would have made him more autorative and less of a mess, I would have even made Kate similar to John (at least in some ways) to make the chemistry between the two more believable... There just are elements on the movie that has a whole are disjointed compared to the films that came before it.
On the bright side, I can see some of the things I see in this movie working in and on their own if they were better explained... fans of the series have talked about interesting possibilities of how they can make a T3 possible, this movie could have had does and maybe work with it´s own elements, but has I stated before, there needed to be better writing and thought involved for it to work. How about saying that Skynet was underdevelopment by the US army long before Cyberdine studied the terminator from the first movie? Explain that the original terminator has design by Skynet under the image of humanity? Why bother to explain John and Kate´s relationship? Why not just let it unfold naturally? Why can´t the creation of Skynet be more investigated? These are just some of the elements the writers could have asked themselves to make the story more coherent to the overall stablished timeline...
To be fair, I have seen far worst 3rd parts in movie series than this... I see unexplored possibilities here that could have made the movie more "Above average" than it is, but I still believe it could have been far worst, the action scenes are a lot of fun to watch and there is indeed plenty of attention to detail...
Terminator 3 is an average sequel when compared to the first two, is an average film that fails to catch up to the brilliance of it´s predecessors.
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In the next part we´ll look into Terminator Salvation, I hope you join me then and stay tuned for more updates on my project.
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