I just rewatched after hearing the brilliant Dana Buckler Show (formerly 'How Is This Movie?) podcast episode where they look at each film in the Terminator saga.

There was some great insight to the troubled script and Linda Hamilton's absence. The Skynet applicability to modern Internet. The choice of ending and rating despite large budget. The interplay between Danes and Stahl.

All good points. And it caused me to rewatch.

It is better than I remember but I won't be upgrading my rating.

Heres why...
- It looks like a TV movie. For such a huge budget, why not try to keep the look of the first two films?
- poor attempts at humour. The stripper at women's night scene, the cheesy one liners, the breast augmentation. It's just cringe-worthy.
- the set pieces are good but the CGI is not dating well. Contrast to T2 that still looks pretty good.

And the big miss... Arnold. He's past it by the time of this movie. They pass him off as a replica of T1 or T2 but the dude is just old looking here. The work he must have done (and chemicals) to recreate the physique for the arrival scene will have been immense. But fo rmost of the film, his leather suit is falling off him. Like they bought it for him to grow in to!

It's a decent action flick. But it's way off the quality of T1 or (for my money, one of the best films ever) T2.


6/10