Terminator will forever be one of the greatest Science fiction/Action series of all time. The first film is more like a horror, while the second feels more like a head on action flick, even though it's technically a sci-fi. The story is about a killer robot from the robotic war future who is sent back in time to kill the mother of the terminator's enemy leader so the terminators can take over. A solder who is fighting against the terminators is sent back as well, to prevent the death of his leader's mother. The Terminator is very human like and can not be destroyed. It's a Discombobulating story line, but it's very interesting. In the sequel, the main Terminator is reprogrammed and sent back a second time, but this time to protect the human leader, rather then destroy him. The film stars California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the main terminator in both films. His role as the Terminator is easily his most popular role and the role that gave him is signature movie line "I'll be Back" that is now one of the biggest movie lines in history. At the end of the second film, the Terminator saves the human leader (John Conor) and his mother (Sarah Conor) before killing himself in lava. It was a good ending but an ending that came too soon. Who ends a film series on the second part? I always thought there should of been a third film. It just wasn't over.
In 2003 the 3rd Terminator film, Rise of the machines was announced and I was never more excited. But as much as I wanted this 3rd film, I thought to myself, well, he saved Sarah and John Conor from the Terminators after them before self terminated himself, what was there left to do? I was thinking that this time around there would be a new, amazing story line or a perfect ending. But to my disappointment, it was the same exact film idea as the 2nd. It seems that both Terminator sequels were the same basic ideas as the first. You could only find small twists and differences.
So Terminator 3 picks up about 10 years later. Sarah Conor is dead and John Conor is now in his 20's and living on the streets. The Terminator returns after being reprogrammed by a childhood friend of John Conor to protect her and John from the TX, female anti Terminator Terminator who was sent to kill them both as well as the Terminator. The female Terminator in this film is played by Kristanna Loken. She's really only there for sex appeal and isn't really much of a Terminator. She's definitely cooler then the T100 from the 2nd film as far as how advance of a machine she is. But to see The Terminator fighting a woman is kind of strange.
Anyways, the Terminator rescues John and Catherin from the TX and they begin their mission to stop the end of the world (As they call it) which is really only the beginning of the machine war. Not like they didn't all ready stop the end of the world/beginning of Terminator world in the 2nd film. But this time Sky net (The Terminator war company) is more improved and ready to go.
It's an entertaining action film filled with, car chases, explosions and robot wars. It's the worst of the Terminator films, but still a great movie, and boy, am I lucky I got to see it in the movie theaters.
After the Terminator 3 hype with the film, DVD's, VHS's and video games, everything died down for a while. There was however a recent Terminator TV series that was promoted like crazy, but only lasted about a month or so and the 4th installment about the Terminator was (Terminator Salvation) came out earlier this year. As a little kid, I waited the arrival of the 4th Terminator but don't really care to see it now that it's out. But maybe I'll check it out somewhere down the road.
Terminator 3 - 3 Stars as movie but 5 stars on the action scale
