I just finished watching Terminator 3. Now, I'm not going to say the people who made this movie should be terminated, but close.

The movie was empty and shallow. Sure, there was a lot of eye candy. But even that seemed so so. Ten years ago, it would have been amazing. But just because you can create complicated and realistic effects of chases and fight scenes with cars and machines slamming into this and that and flying apart doesn't mean you should. Everything seemed turned up on ten except the ending scenes with the T1 and the T3.

And for the love of all things holy, why must we always have a pause in the action and a catch phrase?

There was no tension in this movie even though it one big chase scene if you think about it. No tension at all. The T3 didn't have anything going for her but young and cute yet deadly. But she didn't seem all that deadly even though she killed a lot of folks. Yeah, yeah, I know she's an emotionless machine. But so was the first T1 in the first movie. And even back then Arnold had something going for him on film. Charisma. And this lady had none.

The other actors? Well, the new John Corner seemed interesting. And Claire Danes has talent. Though, I'm troubled by the fact that once her one true love is brutally murdered, she doesn't think about him that much. In fact, just a few hours later, she's ready to start a new with her future love. Look folks, if you love somebody and they die, you're not going to okay with it three hours later. You're not even going to be sort of okay with it.

Crap, I'm giving away parts of the movie. But if you wanted to see the movie, my comments and plot slips -- plot? What plot? -- aren't going to change your mind. And if you like the movie, I've got some Christmas lights that twinkle that I'm sure you'll enjoy as well. Lord knows I wish I'd spent the last two hours focused on the lights instead of the movie.

And get this, there was a nice little twist at the end of the movie that shows that somebody did give some thought to a story for this movie. I'm not saying there is a great story here. It should have been a nice continuation of the first and second movie. Instead, it's very flat. And who is to blame? I'm going to blame the director, which by the way wasn't James Cameron. Jonathan Mostow directed T3. He also did U-571, which I liked. So go figure.

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