A little offensive

Russ 2021-10-18 19:50:51

The Terminator re-emerged, but the director is no longer James Cameron. Arnold Schwarzenegger is still tough, his opponent is the updated female Terminator TX. The function of TX has reached the point of disrupting the balance of the game. The roughness of the battle between the two in the US Air Force Command can be said to be a higher level than the previous one. The main move is to lift each other up and hit various things. According to John Conner, this TX has a scientific name---Terminatrix...Female Terminator...

The theme of this film is that the future is unchangeable, and mankind is bound to be destroyed by nuclear war. All attempts to change the future can only advance or postpone the occurrence of this fate. Humans can only fight to survive. This theme is desperate.

Although many scenes and sections have the meaning of tribute to the previous two, for example, the female terminator at the beginning kills on the list, Schwarzenegger's "I'm Back" and so on. However, after changing the director, I still feel that something has changed. For example, the conversation between John Conner and his future wife in the back of the truck is quite boring. In addition, the robot has become a bit lost in the characteristics of a robot. The contradictory and "painful" decision made by T-850 (Schwarzenegger) after being invaded by the TX system reminds me of the martial arts masters in Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts movies. Quite awkward, that paragraph. The robot should be like the T-800 and T-1000 in the first and second episodes. It should have no expressions in any actions, mechanical actions, powerful, simple and straightforward. And the T-850 in this work turned out to have emotionally painful choices. The female Terminator's stinky face with anger from beginning to end makes people feel that they have lost the temperament of the "terminator". No expression is much better than an angry face.

Of course, as mentioned before, the roughness of the fighting scenes between the two Terminators definitely surpassed the previous two games. In other respects, it is not as exciting as "Terminator 2".

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Extended Reading

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines quotes

  • [first lines]

    John Connor: [voiceover] The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. I wish I could believe that. My name is John Connor, they tried to murder me before I was born, when I was 13 they tried again. Machines from the future. Terminators. All my life my mother told me the storm was coming, Judgment Day, the beginning of the war between man and machines. Three billion lives would vanish in an instant, and I would lead what was left of the human race to ultimate victory. It hasn't happened, no bombs fell, computers didn't take control, we stopped Judgment Day. I should feel safe, but I don't, so I live off the grid - no phone, no address, no one and nothing can find me. I've erased all connections to the past, but as hard as I try I can't erase my dreams, my nightmares.

  • Kate Brewster: Next time bring a clue, not a paintball gun.