Terminator 3

Quality: *** Acceptability: -2

RATING: R

STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Clair Danes, David Andrews, and Kristanna Loken

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Mostow

PRODUCERS: Mario F. Kassar, Andreww Vajna, Joel B. Michaels, Hal Lieberman, and Colin Wilson

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, and Gale Anne Hurd

WRITERS: John Brancato and Michael Ferris

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

GENRE: Science Fiction

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults

SUMMARY: Terminators: Rise Of The Machines stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg sent from the future to save a young man who will become leader of a resistance movement against a sentient network of computerized machines.

Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines opens in 2007. Ten years ago, John Connor and his mother helped prevent Judgment Day-the day when Skynet's highly developed network of computerized machines was scheduled to become self-aware and destroy mankind. Now 22, Connor still lives "off the grid," with no home, no credit cards, no phone, and no job, so that Skynet can't trace him. Connor's worst fears come true.

The first half of Terminators is very exciting and includes a fun, elaborate chase scene. The second half of Terminator 3 loses steam, however, despite Arnold Schwarzeneggers commanding presence.

CONTENT: Humanist worldview with much talk about "fate," as well as some amoral, heroic elements, including an army official who says, "Let's pray to God this works," and minor homosexual character in brief bar scene; 25 obscenities (including a few "f" words), seven strong profanities, and six light exclamatory profanities; very strong action violence; elaborate car and truck chase, and missile slams through human-looking robot's body; women attend male strip night at a bar; full rear male and female nudity and brief upperfemale nudity; alcohol use at bar; and, lying.

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