Advantages: great film with great effects,action packed from the start
Disadvantages: not everyone will like it

...Winter was coming, the nights were colder, and so going out was definitely out of the question! So what better way to spend an evening than snuggled up nice and warm in front of the fire/one heater in a first floor flat, watching a nice action packed DVD? Well we couldn’t think of a better way and so off we trotted to the local DVD/video rental shop to see what they had in. Now in November they kind of went through a dry month with not many new films coming in but this month there were meant to be at least 5 new films out. There was actually a great choice of movies available when we got there but just one caught my eye…Terminator 3: The rise of the machines. You may have seen this advertised, well at least you should have because there has been quite a bit of hype for the film. I have to admit, when I first saw it advertised, I... Read review

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Advantages: Crane scene, T-X, Arnie
Disadvantages: Nothing new, lack of emotion, ending, films rating

...Terminator 3, The Rise Of The Machines Released : 2003 Genre : Sci Fi Rating : 12A Duration : 108 minutes Direction : Jonathon Mostow Cast : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, David Andrews, Mark Famig Lietti. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. I wish I could believe that" - John Connor The Terminator franchise is back with a third helping after ten years have passed since Terminator 2, Judgement Day. I read a lot of poor reviews on this film in the weeks before it's release and it genuinely surprised me because the first two films were outstanding in this genre. James Cameron the director of the first 2 films and Linda Hamilton, the charismatic mother of John Connor both refused to come back for a third time which rang alarm bells, the words... Read review

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Advantages: Great action and special effects
Disadvantages: none

...Writers: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd Director: James Cameron. Producers: John Daly, Gale Anne Hurd and Derek Gibson Editor: Mark Goldblatt. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton. Released in 1984 this first film begins a series of fantastic movies where future meets present with action pact consequences. When a machine wrapped in human skin cells and blood is sent back from 2029, (where the machines rule the world), to 1984, the machine, or 'Terminator' (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is hell bent on destroying all the Sarah Conners in the phone book. The terminator manages to kill 2 but is prevented from killing the third Sarah by a pursuing time traveller Kyle Reese, (played by Micheal Biehn) who is sent back to find and protect Sarah Conner, (played by Linda Hamilton). As Kyle does not know... Read review

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Advantages: the new TX
Disadvantages: plot could have been much better

...So much hype is all over the internet lately about yet another Terminator movie being released for 2006/2007, and me being a big movie maniac I have decided to write a review on the last Terminator movie, T3 Rise Of The Machines, and share some of the rumours which are circling about the fourth instalment to the popular franchise. As this is meant to be a review of this movie.......... and I fear that all that I have to write about the fourth one may not actually quite fit here, I will begin writing about this one, which of course being TERMINATOR 3 - RISE OF THE MACHINES (T3) T3- This of course being the second sequel to the popular sci fi movie The Terminator. Over 10 years have past since John Conner, Sarah Conner and the T-100 blew up cyberdyne systems to stop Judgment Day and erase what ever chances that a war against... Read review

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Advantages: Lots of action
Disadvantages: Very gloomy

...Background = This is the third installment of the Terminator series. In the first Terminator movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the bad terminator sent back in time to kill Sarah O'Connor (played by Linda Hamilton) to stop her from giving birth to John O'Connor. Obviously he failed in his role as Terminator. In the second Terminator, Arnold was sent back as the 'good' Terminator to protect John O'Connor. At the same time, the intelligent machines, created by humans of course, sent back a stronger, more intelligent Terminator, to get rid of the teenager. As we all know, he failed and Judgement day did not come and was assumed never will. So, why Terminator 3? Well, guess there is always a way of elongating an already told story, by changing the ending. Plot = So, now John O'Connor has grown up into a young man, who... Read review

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