Schwarzenegger is great and funny, but the guy who played John Conner was a bad casting choice. I hate to be negative, but I'm not sure what his appeal was to the casting directors - his acting skills were subpar (didn't seem emotionally connected enough at times) and he seemed sooo different from the younger John Conner they had in the second Terminator movie. I didn't find it believable that they were supposed to be the same person. There'd been all this build up to "the great John Conner" over the previous Terminator movies, but I was so underwhelmed by this actor. Linda Hamilton's absence is also greatly felt. Maybe she could've helped carry the movie - Clare Danes and the guy who played John Conner just can't pull it off in my opinion. Schwarzenegger is perfect for comedic effect, but he's not really ever the protagonist in these movies in the traditional sense, even though the series was named for his character. He was the best part of this movie; it's saving grace, I guess. Overall, it's an okay movie, but the first two Terminator movies were way better.

I'm not going to talk about the casting mistakes (where are you, Edward Furlong and Linda Hamilton?) Or that Terminatrix that looks like something from "Species" (that horror of the name of Terminatrix, by the way ... Porn movies). No. Nor will I talk about how the heck Skynet is created without Cyberdine or Dyson. And I'll spare the character of Claire Danes.What I am going to talk about is the lack of spiritual coherence with the rest of the saga.In "T-2" was mentioned the phrase "there is no destiny, only the one that we do". The definition of free will, come on. But what does John Connor discover in "T-3"? That the Final Judge was inevitable. Like Neo of the saga "Matrix", Connor becomes a pawn that never had opportunity to change history.And that makes "T-3" a Greek movie ("Gods handle our lives and mortals are mere puppets") as opposed to the biblical / Christian approach to "the world is like you do" of the previous ones.And I give a five to the movie because Arnie, his character and his lapidary phrases are still the same.

Terminator 2 is one of my favorite films of all time. Perfectly cast and paced. Great balance of action and humor. This is not that. I recently went back to this for the first time in maybe a decade. I saw it in the cinema when it first came out and thought it was pretty mediocre. On viewing it again, I can say it is alright. It doesn't really feel like a terminator film but there are some good action set pieces and nice twists that make up for it.If you are are willing to look past its flaws (and there are two pretty cringy/bad moments) it is not as bad as you might have heard.

... if logic or integrity meant anything that is. When it comes to The Terminator franchise, it's like this: No James Cameron = No Good..... and one of them doesn't even have Arnold!Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the third chapter in the Terminator saga (which should have NEVER been made in the first place) hit the theaters in the summer of 2003, a whole twelve years after Terminator 2: Judgement Day (the best Terminator movie) and not surprisingly it proved to be a profoundly disappointing sequel. But why? First of all the whole premise of the movie seems forced and illogical, if you're at all familiar with the ending of the second film, the very existence of a third Terminator film is absolutely nonsensical. But at the time (the 2000's) most of Arnie's movies were bombing, so in a forced and desperate effort to reverse his sagging box-office appeal, he decided to play his last remaining ace card: The Terminator franchise. And why not, it had always reaped glowing results in the past, however, James Cameron wisely and with clear-headed logic wanted nothing to do with a third Termintor movie. Evidently the director of the first two films hadn't forgotten how the second film ended, but it's star obviously had. And I must say for a physically demanding role like The Terminator time is not an ally; yet Arnold took twelve years off between T2 and T3 and another 12 years between T3 and Genisys..... rust is forming on the Terminator.Let's briefly recap the events of the end of Terminator 2, in the films finale through the actions of John and Sarah Conner, Miles Bennett Dyson and a certain re-programmed T-101, every existing scrap of technology that the franchise is based upon (i.e. Terminators of various models and Skynet) was utterly destroyed when the Cyberdine Building was blown up in a massive explosion; and thus effectively erasing the cause of Judgement Day from existence thereby preventing - The War Against The Machines. Which also at the same time should have logically ruled out any possibility of another sequel. BUT, according to this movies logic, none of that happened... and the best reasoning they could come up with was "You only postponed it, Judgement Day is inevitable" and then Arnie proceeds to back up his illogical reasoning with some additional drivel about more Terminators being sent back in time, that are programmed to seek out and terminate certain people who would eventually go on to become military officers in the future, during The War Against The Machines..... but we... in the second one.... oh never the hell mind!To be fair about it and seeing as how this is a Terminator movie there are a few great action scenes, but the films poor casting (in the roles of John Conner and Katherine Brewster) and it's aforementioned ludicrous plot doom it from the get go; and as a result T3 is nothing more than huge, disappointing, illogical mess of a movie - which should never had been made. Another of T3's failing's is the films pathetically lame attempts at humour of which almost all fall flat. On the other hand one of the few bright spots about T3 would have to be Kristanna Loken, she is simply terrific in her role as the "T-X" (the bad Terminator), I find her overall design to be absolutely stellar. You'd certainly never suspect such a lovely looking lady would be so fiendishly deadly. And there's another thing about our deadly little Terminatrix, does any else think that Kristanna Loken bares a striking resemblance to 90's porn queen Jenna Jameson? In the end Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is a poorly conceptualized sequel and it represents the first (of several) blemish's to a once great franchise. At the heart of the matter, I can easily conclude that T3 and it's other more recent sequels are the products of illogical thought, that is powered by nothing other then greed - and perhaps a faulty long-term memory. Why else would they keep making these utterly disgraceful sequels.It takes Arnold AND James Cameron BOTH for this to work, the Terminator series ended with the second film, 26 years ago - anything and everything to do with The Terminator beyond that point is nothing but cyber-trash.Stick to the first two films, they're more memorable and "more better".