Post by George Willson on Oct 26, 2005 17:51:36 GMT -5
KIM rating: 4.8.5
This third installment of the every-ten-years-or-so Terminator franchise is the first without writer/director/creator James Cameron at the helm. The idea here is to blow up as much stuff as possible and cause as much destruction as possible. The TX terminator was clever, although it was a little disturbing to have Arnold beating up a girl less than half his size. We also have a rather ingenious serious of reversals to turn the story on its ear.
A hefty flaw is the rate of character development. We are introduced to the four main characters very quickly, and before we know it, stuff is happening to them. The trouble is we only care so far as these are people in a tight situation. The development comes slowly over the course of the film and we eventually get to know them well enough to care somewhat.
Really the biggest problem has to do with the general Terminator universe and the conceivability of this film in conjunction with the previous two. In The Terminator, a man was sent back after Skynet sent a Terminator through time before it was destroyed. Terminator 2 bends this a bit by Skynet sending an upgraded model somehow only to be followed again by a member of the resistence, this time a reprogrammed Terminator. Terminator 3 continues this far fetched idea, but takes it a little further into the land of far-fetched-ness in that Skynet somehow learned from its mistakes with the T-1000, upgraded the model again, sent this model back in time to a point further in the future right before it is supposed to take over the world, another Teminator was captured and reprogrammed to remember what the previous Terminator was taught, even though John says he has to learn all over again, and then there's a bit of a twist that derails the whole thing.
If you can get around the paradoxical universe the Terminator creates, it's not a bad flick. You start asking why, and the whole thing falls apart.
The "Sgt Candy" scene from the special features, however, was priceless.
This third installment of the every-ten-years-or-so Terminator franchise is the first without writer/director/creator James Cameron at the helm. The idea here is to blow up as much stuff as possible and cause as much destruction as possible. The TX terminator was clever, although it was a little disturbing to have Arnold beating up a girl less than half his size. We also have a rather ingenious serious of reversals to turn the story on its ear.
A hefty flaw is the rate of character development. We are introduced to the four main characters very quickly, and before we know it, stuff is happening to them. The trouble is we only care so far as these are people in a tight situation. The development comes slowly over the course of the film and we eventually get to know them well enough to care somewhat.
Really the biggest problem has to do with the general Terminator universe and the conceivability of this film in conjunction with the previous two. In The Terminator, a man was sent back after Skynet sent a Terminator through time before it was destroyed. Terminator 2 bends this a bit by Skynet sending an upgraded model somehow only to be followed again by a member of the resistence, this time a reprogrammed Terminator. Terminator 3 continues this far fetched idea, but takes it a little further into the land of far-fetched-ness in that Skynet somehow learned from its mistakes with the T-1000, upgraded the model again, sent this model back in time to a point further in the future right before it is supposed to take over the world, another Teminator was captured and reprogrammed to remember what the previous Terminator was taught, even though John says he has to learn all over again, and then there's a bit of a twist that derails the whole thing.
If you can get around the paradoxical universe the Terminator creates, it's not a bad flick. You start asking why, and the whole thing falls apart.
The "Sgt Candy" scene from the special features, however, was priceless.