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The antagonist in this film is a female Terminator who is more powerful than Schwarzenegger's outdated  T-800.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.

2000 - U 571 it's a World War II movie it's got subs.

U-571 is a very very tall tale of a movie.  The premise,  American sailors on a submarine have to take over a German submarine in the middle of the Atlantic after their submarine is sunk.  This leads to a preposterous mission where the Americans in the German sub have to steal the Enigma coding device, oh whatever.

This is just a real contrived war movie to put it mildly.  The characters are the usual bunch of World War II stereotypes.  You have the old salt crew chief.  The captain who doubts himself but pulls it together in the end to complete the mission.  The green sailor on his first mission, etc.

The film had a big budget so it looks good and the action stuff is decent.  I guess you can classify this film as a typical "time killer."

As ridiculous as this film is, incredibly enough this story is based on a true incident that occurred during World War II.

116 minutes.