Rise of the Machines - Terminator 3 at 20
Hi all. It's snuck up on me, but I recently had a realisation that Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines is 20 years old. What better time then to have a retrospective of this movie, which, compared to The Terminator and Terminator 2 - Judgment Day, cannot even come close to in many departments. However, looking at the film based on its own merits, it's actually a pretty decent and entertaining movie. Even when you do compare it against the other Terminator movies, it is widely considered the third best film in the franchise. Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (often abbreviated as T3 and advertised as such), was the long anticipated sequel to Terminator 2 - Judgment Day, released 12 years earlier in 1991. Released in Summer 2003, it was a successful movie, but it was always going to draw comparisons to the success of T2. Seeing that T2 was such a ground-breaking movie in so many ways, realistically, it was never going to be able to match that level. Arnold Schwarzenegger repris...