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ESPECIALLY #5 -- I remember laughing my ass off when I saw that in the screening, but somehow completely left it out of my review. There's just no explanation for that scene whatsoever. And both Robert Patrick in "T2" and Arnold himself in "T1" were far superior villains to Kristanna Loken (for most of the reasons Nick declares) -- and as we all know (especially us "Hulk" haters), the power of an action movie is derived mostly from the strength of its villain. There's no way on earth "T3" is superior to "T1" and hardly any chance that it's superior to "T2." However, I will admit, it probably had more action than either of the first two (particularly in the first forty-five minutes), if that's all you give a damn about.
"The story line was excellent and involved no troublesome time paradoxes despite claims to the contrary." -- This is simply absolutely incorrect. Of course, I've already gone over this again and again, yet you didn't reply any sort of explanation as to why I'm supposedly wrong. So I'll go over it again:
John Connor cannot possibly exist if the future as presented in "T1" by his father Kyle Reese does not exist. If you actually believe it's possible to change the past during theoretical time travel (which I don't, but that's beside the point), then John Connor would never have been conceived and would have faded away like Marty McFly was about to in "Back to the Future."
This does not destroy the premise of the original (and nearly perfect) "Terminator" in any way, although it throws the plot to the second movie into chaos. You see, either the machines simply hadn't figured out that it was impossible to change the past when they sent the first Terminator back to kill the mother of the head of the resistance or if it was possible to change the past, killing Sarah Connor *probably* wouldn't have stopped the events of 1997 from occurring, so what would it have really mattered? Of course, Kyle Reese never would have been sent back in time to save her, because he was sent by a resistance headed by John Connor, who never would have existed, but that's a whole other mess to deal with. But the point is, if nobody knew or thought for sure it was impossible to change the past, then the events of "T1" are perfectly logical. The ending of "T2" is quite illogical, of course -- the entire idea of "T3" is absurd.
A nice action movie on the whole, but simply absurd (unless they had changed the setting to 1997).
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