This wasn’t a great film, but it wasn’t, as I had expected, a complete anal raping of the franchise either. And that was a pleasant surprise.

Good points:
- Action, lots of it, and the movie is generally well-paced. T3 is only summer blockbuster this year that didn’t bore me at any moment.
- I liked the ending.
- The music contributes greatly to making the movie “feel” like it’s part of the Terminator series.

Bad points:
- The story is basically “more of the same” as the two previous movies. Not too much in the way of new information.
- The Terminatrix is menacing, but very unoriginal. She acts exactly like the T1000 in T2. But her weapons really aren’t as cool as his were.
- The image quality and directing also both suffer from the comparison with T2. It looks like a made-for-TV movie.
- All the comic material is a rehash of the other two movies, though it still manages to be funny. But still, can we stop with the “I’ll be back” jokes already? They’ve had 11 years to think up new funny material!

It all comes down to what I always say - movies of this type are generally only as good as their villain. And this one loses big points because of that.