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Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines
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The only "twist" to this Terminator flick is the presence of a female
Terminator, Terminatrix or TX for short, who is out of destroy John
Connor (Nick Stahl). Connor is the one responsible for saving the
saving human race from a world taken over by machines in the future.
It is up to our re-programmed original Terminator model (Arnold
Schwarzenneger) to protect Connor and his future from TX. Lots of
excellent action scenes, in-jokes and puns, and general destruction
and mayhem follow.
The movie's ending is quite bleak in that it does indeed do what the
title promise: showcase the rise of the machines. Even though John
Connor and his love interest survive, it is at a cost that ends up
destroying most of humanity. This is colinear with the premise of the
/Terminator/ movies where the future is ruled by machines with the
human renegades winning, and each movie features the machines trying
to change the past to kill the human renegade leader.
In this sense, it cleverly avoids the paradox of past manipulations
that result in a future time line that is inconsistent with the past
manipulations (i.e., if there was no takeover by Skynet, why would the
Terminator be created in the first place?). Not bad as far as movies
go.
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