Review of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) by Riley O — 30 Dec 2014

This third Terminator movie belongs to a completely new generation and there's much criticism against it. But I disagree, it really is epic and it totally succeeds with action.

The movie starts with a damn exciting, and action-packed opening scene that got the classic and hilarious Terminator touch. The first and second act got extremely great action sequences, it's so massive and it keep going and going. I really love it. The third act got less action-quantity but instead greater quality. Therefor is it much more epic. The plot of the movie is very entertaining, but not as original. There are many similarities between this and the previous movie; Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which makes this film less unique. The actors though, are wonderful. There's also great chemistry between the characters, but it feels a bit too forced and dry. The movie lack character development and there's not much magical, funny and awesome interactions between them as we saw in the previous movie.

When it comes to the villain is the T-X awesome, she's a real competitor to the T-1000. She's also much cooler but unfortunately not as scary. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is overall very well made, but there are vague CGI at many places. But the action sequences are of course fantastic and highly entertaining. I could not be more satisfied. The soundtrack gives the movie a scary and challenging feeling, but it could have been even more excessive to trigger an emotional response. The ending of the movie is great, but it made the whole film a bit meaningless. It's still a great ending though.

It does have some serious flaws, but it's still an awesome action movie that worth watching!

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines gets an 8.2/10.