T3 - Review:
Last night I went with some friends who wanted to see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Being a Tuesday things were a little more packed than usual (tickets are $8 instead of $12 on Tuesdays), which wasn’t so bad given that there were even more cute girls to take note of, but it did mean we had to try two theatres before finding seats.
There was nothing mind-blowing about the film, just the usual guns, explosions, wrecked cars, and cybernetics. Apart from a somewhat sensous Kristanna Loken, and Arnie’s comic one-liners, there was little to see. The crane chase scene is as close as T3 gets to having something to brag about, but even that left me little more than underwhelmed. Another stinker was the the TX doesn’t come off as being nearly as mean, or tenacious, as Robert Patrick was when he played the T-1000.
The closing scene is more like a home video of a highschool play, with poor and amateurish acting from Stahl and Danes — the result of a dry script. predicatble. The ending is especially weak, and philosophically sappy, leaving you bored, un-’wowed’, and in no doubt whatsoever that a ‘T4’ is on the cards. Peppered with what seems to be mid-1990s special effects, Rise of the Machines is little more than a 10-minute re-hash dragged out over 2 hours. Give us something new dammnit!
