The plot follows the events of the second installment. After Skynet fails to kill Sarah Connor before her son is born and to kill John himself as a child, it sends back another Terminator, the T-X, in an attempt to wipe out as many Resistance officers as possible.
This includes John's future wife, but not John himself as his whereabouts are unknown to Skynet. John's life is placed in danger when the T-X accidentally finds him. In contrast to the critical acclaim of its two predecessors, the film was only moderately well received by critics, and, while it was a box office success, grossed less than the previous film.
Publication Information
- Title : Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines
- Directed by : Jonathan Mostow
- Produced by : Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna, Joel B. Michaels, Hal Lieberman, Colin Wilson
- Screenplay by : John Brancato, Michael Ferris
- Story by : John Brancato, Michael Ferris, Tedi Sarafian
- Based on : Characters by James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
- Starring : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kristanna Loken, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes
- Music by : Marco Beltrami, Brad Fiedel (themes)
- Cinematography : Don Burgess
- Edited by : Nicolas de Toth, Neil Travis
- Production company : IMF Internationale Medien und Film, C2 Pictures
- Distributed by : Warner Bros. Pictures (United States), Columbia Pictures (International)
- Release dates : July 2, 2003
- Running time : 109 minutes
- Language : English
- Budget : $187.3 million ($167.3 million excluding production overhead)
- Box office : $433.4 million
John Connor has been living off the grid in Los Angeles in the years following the death of his mother, Sarah, from leukemia. Although Judgment Day did not occur on August 29, 1997, as expected, John still believes that a war between humans and the machines will occur. Unable to locate John in the past, Skynet sends a new model of the Terminator called the T-X back to July 24, 2004 to kill other members of the human resistance.
More advanced than previous Terminators, the T-X has an endoskeleton with built-in weaponry, a liquid metal exterior similar to the T-1000, and the ability to re-program other machines. Unlike previous Terminators, its standard appearance is female. The resistance sends a reprogrammed Terminator (T-850 (Model 101)) outfitted with nuclear battery fuel cells, back in time to protect the T-X's targets including John and his future wife, Kate Brewster.
After killing several other targets, the T-X locates Kate and John at an animal hospital where the former works and the latter was stealing from, but they escape with the Terminator's help after being chased through the city. The Terminator takes John and Kate to a mausoleum where John's mother, Sarah Connor, is supposedly interred. Inside her vault, they find a weapons cache that was left at Sarah's request in case Judgment Day was not averted. Police arrive and a gun battle ensues, but John and the Terminator escape with Kate in a hearse. The T-X also arrives after murdering Kate's fiancé and chases the Terminator and the others, but they manage to escape.
The Terminator then reveals his plan to drive John and Kate to Mexico to escape the fallout when Judgment Day begins. After learning that Judgment Day is scheduled to begin at 6:18 p.m. that day, John orders the Terminator to take him and Kate to see Kate's father, a lieutenant general who is supervising the building of Skynet after Cyberdyne Systems went defunct, and threatens to kill himself if he doesn't. The Terminator calls John's bluff but agrees to take them after Kate orders him to. Upon questioning, the Terminator reveals that he killed John on July 4, 2032 and that Kate sent him back from the future after reprogramming him.
At the Air Force base, General Brewster faces pressure from the President to activate Skynet to stop a computer virus that is infecting computers all over the world (unaware that the virus is Skynet establishing control over the worldwide computer network). John and Kate arrive too late to stop Skynet from being activated, and its machines begin to massacre the staff members. Brewster is mortally wounded by the T-X, which arrived before John, Kate, and the Terminator. Before dying, he gives Kate and John a codebook and the location of what John believes is Skynet's system core.
John and Kate head for the tarmac to take General Brewster's airplane to reach Crystal Peak, a military base built inside a mountain and hardened against nuclear attack. The T-X and the Terminator battle, but the T-X severely damages the Terminator before reprogramming it to kill John and Kate. The T-X pursues John and Kate through the military base but becomes trapped when a particle accelerator is activated and the magnetic field bonds it to the accelerator.
In the hangar, the Terminator, unable to control his outer functions but still in full conscious control, attacks John and Kate before John convinces it to reject the T-X's control, and deliberately shuts its corrupted system down, thus allowing John and Kate the chance to escape. Shortly after they leave, the Terminator system reboots.
John and Kate reach Crystal Peak and begin entering the access codes to gain entry when the T-X arrives by helicopter. Just as she is about to attack, the rebooted Terminator arrives in a second helicopter and crashes into the T-X, crushing it. The T-X pulls itself from the wreckage and attempts to drag itself inside the bunker and follow John and Kate. The Terminator holds the bunker open long enough for John and Kate to lock themselves inside then uses one of his nuclear power cells to destroy both itself and the T-X.
Inside Crystal Peak, John and Kate discover that the facility is not Skynet's core but a nuclear fallout shelter and that Skynet has no core. Judgment Day begins outside, as nuclear missiles are fired at several locations around the world, killing billions. They begin receiving radio transmissions on the emergency equipment inside. John begins answering radio calls.
Cast
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator / T-850 (Model 101) : Reprising his role from the first two films. This film was Schwarzenegger's final starring role before becoming Governor of California until his 2013 film The Last Stand. In the 2009 film Terminator Salvation, though, Schwarzenegger's likeness is used in CGI and a body double is used to portray the T-800. He later returns to the franchise in the fifth installment Terminator Genisys.
- Nick Stahl as John Connor : Edward Furlong, who played John in Terminator 2 : Judgment Day, reportedly was not asked to reprise his role in T3 because of a substance abuse problem. In a 2004 interview, he responded, "I don't know what happened. It just wasn't the time. I was going through my own thing at the point in my life – whatever, it just wasn't meant to be".
- Kristanna Loken as T-X : the first on-screen female Terminator.
- Claire Danes as Kate Brewster : In a 2005 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Danes revealed she was cast in the role as a last-minute replacement after producers felt that actress Sophia Bush was too young to portray the character.
- David Andrews as Lieutenant General Robert Brewster, USAF
- Mark Famiglietti as Scott Mason : Kate Brewster's slain fiancé was originally named Scott Peterson, but was changed in order to avoid association with the Scott Peterson case surrounding the murder of Laci Peterson and her unborn son Conner. In the ending credits his name is still listed as "Scott Peterson".
- Earl Boen as Dr. Peter Silberman : Reprising his role from the first two films. Boen appears for one scene, attempting to comfort Claire Danes' character after she witnesses the acts of the Terminator. Boen and Schwarzenegger are the only actors to appear in all of the first three Terminator films.
- Jay Acovone as LAPD Officer.
- Kim Robillard as Detective Edwards : He is killed by being punched through the chest by the T-X.
- Mark Hicks as Detective Bell : He is killed by the T-X along with Detective Edwards, in the dialogue he is identified correctly, but in the credits his name is listed as "Detective Martinez".
Soundtrack
Marco Beltrami composed the musical score, which still employed the series' leitmotif by Brad Fiedel. The film's soundtrack was released by Varèse Sarabande on June 24, 2003
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines
- Film score by : Marco Beltrami
- Released : June 24, 2003
- Label : Varèse Sarabande
- Track List:
- A Day in the Life
- Hooked on Multiphonics
- Blonde Behind the Wheel
- JC Theme
- Starting T-1
- Hearse Rent a Car
- T-X's Hot Tail
- Graveyard Shootout
- More Deep Thoughts
- Dual Terminator
- Kicked in the Can
- Magnetic Personality
- Termina-Tricks
- Flying Lessons
- What Do You Want on Your Tombstone?
- Terminator Tangle
- Radio
- T3
- The Terminator" (from the motion picture The Terminator, composed by Brad Fiedel)
- Open to Me" performed by Dillon Dixon.
- I Told You" performed by Mia Julia.
- Songs that are not included on the soundtrack album:
- Dat Funky Man" performed by William Randolph III and words by Jonathan Mostow
- Sugar" performed by Peter Beckett and words by Jonathan Mostow.
- Party" performed by Peter Beckett.
- Can't Hide This" performed by Mega Jeff.
- Macho Man" performed by Village People.
- The Current" performed by Gavin Rossdale and Blue Man Group.
Source : wikipedia
