Title: The ending ruins it
Product review: From the moment Arnold says "You're terminated," this picture falls apart. There are several places in the picture where you wonder if the screenwriters even saw the first two films, though you tend to ignore them because Arnold and the other actors are doing good work, and the setpiece destruction is well-staged. But you do notice Skynet's takeover. That was described in T2, and it's not what happens in T3. Then we are asked to believe a father outright lies to his daughter with his dying breath. That leads to an ending that is totally in violation of the series' premise (till now) -- a saying repeated in both films: "The future is not set. Our future is what we make of it." This picture's premise is: "The future IS set, and there's nothing we can do about it." Maybe if all this had been set up it would have worked, though I doubt it. You can't change core tenets of a film series and have it work. T3 does just that, and it doesn't work.
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