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Jonathan Mostow’s follow-up to Judgment Day earned decent reviews upon release but is now underrated by being a three-star follow-up to two four-star classics. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) There are some great character beats in the middle, but it’s a franchise again betting on fans mistaking a repeat of the first film(s) for a franchise rejuvenation.
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Alas, most of the movie is on franchise autopilot, the action is cut to ribbons and barely given room to breathe and Hamilton and Schwarzenegger steal the show from the rookies. Like Star Wars VII, the original protagonists act as elder mentors to this new cast made up of underrepresented demographics (in this case, making a young Hispanic woman the most important person for the future and a young Hispanic man into her primary threat), which is intended to provide a new jolt to otherwise run-of-the-mill proceedings.
We (again) get a loose replay of the first two Terminator movies, with new young heroes (Mackenzie Davis as the cyborg protector and Natalia Reyes as the target) and a new Terminator (Gabriel Luna) intermingling with Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor and a T-800 again played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Tim Miller-directed and James Cameron-produced sequel to T2 attempts applies the Force Awakens formula. That’s especially true for the women, as Bryce Dallas Howard gets nothing to do while Moon Bloogood needs to be rescued by a strong man only to endanger the world because that man/robot is cute and seems to have a “good heart.” Salvation would probably have been a halfway decent movie if it weren’t forced to be part of the Terminator franchise. But after our leads all meet up with each other, the film loses momentum and the action becomes arbitrary, with too much franchise mythology clogging up the final act and too little development for the supporting characters. Sam Worthington is great as the lead, a death row inmate who wakes up in the future and realizes that he’s now technically a cyborg. This one at least doesn’t replay the first film, while notion of John Connor (Christian Bale) not as the leader of the resistance but as a glorified propaganda tool/loose cannon subverts our expectations. MCG’s “future war” sequel looks spectacular, as his sense for Rube Goldberg action and long takes makes for gripping first act.
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Clarke especially forced to play a generic male filmmaker’s version of a “strong female character” while the two dudes (Schwarzenegger as a reprogrammed T-800) and Courtney) spar over who can best protect this “tough woman who doesn’t need protecting.” The big second-half plot twist is arbitrary, the action finale is folks shooting at TV screens and the entire film is predicated on merely seeing that which we already saw played out much worse than before. But Sarah and Kyle are horrible together, and the film’s emphasis on puppy love romance is another terrible choice. The first, plot-driven act isn’t dreadful, as Jason Clarke makes an interesting John Connor and there is some amusement in seeing everything we know from the first two films play out in a topsy-turvy fashion.
Chief among its problems is brutal miscasting of Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney, once again better at playing villains than heroes) and Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke).
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This misshapen and impersonal series reboot takes a quirky idea, with new versions of old characters dancing through time and rewriting the franchises’ mythology on the fly, and just blows it in almost every way.