Tuesday, April 12, 2022

2003 - TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, 3rd film in the series

Pointless 3rd film in the Terminator series.  Ever since Terminator 2: Judgement Day someone is always trying to turn these Terminator films into a franchise.  The 2019 film, Terminator:  Dark Fate was just the latest non starter in a series nobody apparently wants to see.


Terminator 3, is basically a rehash of the first two films. Amazingly it took three writers to cobble this script together which is essentially a bunch of action scenes tied together by a plot involving the computer system Skynet getting ready to destroy the world. 

 

The antagonist in this film is a female Terminator who is more powerful than Schwarzenegger's outdated  T-800.  There's lots of smashing, bashing and blowing things up. The actors, with barely developed roles do what they can to make things interesting but it's all kind of pointless in the end.

 

Even as a time killer the film really can't seem to deliver.

Written by John Brancato, Michael Ferris and Tedi Sarafian. The film clocks in at 109 minutes.

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