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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

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  Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Review
Tookey's Rating
8 /10
 
Average Rating
6.93 /10
 
Starring
Terminator: Arnold Schwarzenegger , John Connor: Nick Stahl, Kate Brewster: Claire Danes
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Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Written by: John Brancato, Michael Ferris and Tedi Sarafian

 
 
 
Released: 2003
   
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
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Origin: US
   
Length: 0
 
 


 
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They made a clone, but left behind the soul - T3 is T2 without the heart, spirit, and humanity.
(Jeffrey Chen, Window to the Movies)
Schwarzenegger still looks spectacular, but the script is short on deadpan zingers, and his heart doesn't seem in it.
(Mike Clark, USA Today)
Without James Cameron's expertise, the Terminator is not really back.
(Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
T3 isn't so much a sequel as it is a spoof.
(Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News)
Terminator 2 wrapped things up so thoroughly and in such a satisfying way that all this witless, plodding rehash can do is tell the same story again, a lot less skillfully.
(Lou Lumenick, New York Post)
Like the latest Matrix, this is a movie too wrapped up in explosions and fights and chases to say anything coherent.
(Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel)
Terminator 3 is essentially a B movie, content to be loud, dumb and obvious.
(A.O. Scott, New York Times)
Mechanical and soulless, it's proof that the machines have already risen - and won.
(Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger)
Why these lame-brained machines don't just go back to the frickin' Mayflower and kill humanity's-only-hope's ancestral forebears is never explained; my pencil sharpener's smarter.
(Gregory Weinkauf, New Times)

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