Third time is no charm. Granted, the first T was phenomenal. Surprisingly, T2 was even better. (Similar to Alien and Aliens.) Since T2, I’ve become a fan of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV). But T3 just remakes a portion of T2 with a far-less likeable John Connor. (I do like Claire Danes, who inspires Connor’s best laugh-out-loud line: “You remind me of my mother,” after she does something particularly hard-ass.)
Of course, Ahnold gets the funniest lines. And some terribly predictable lines like “she’ll be bahk.”
When our heroes explore the underground 70s-era bunker, it looked a lot like the one in Colossus: The Forbin Project. Perhaps, T3 tips its hat to a progenitor.