The official website of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines doesn’t load: http://www.terminator3.com. It’s only three years since the movie’s release, but duds sink fast, clearly. As duds go, this wasn’t the worst movie ever. But it was 100 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. The first two Terminator movies really earned all the kudos and hype. I knew going in that this conclusion to the never-envisioned trilogy was seen as a klunker, but the Metacritic score of 66 is still too high.
Only points for creativity go to whomever decided it was worth the bucks on CG to have the villian drive a crane in the biggest “car chase” scene of the movie. Very much a caricature of the original semi-trailer / motorcycle chase from T2, and not as compelling, but both of us commented that they would have been hard-pressed to find something bigger. And bigger is better, right?
(Note: domain is still owned by someone in Beverly Hills; not sure why it doesn’t resolve.)