The film maintains a balance between urgent drama and eye-popping violence delivered by a sensibility happily more inclined to classical action aesthetics than to fashionable effects for effects’ sake. The answer to the first question is yes, and the way pic establishes the requisite scope, technique and tone within the first few minutes suggests a resounding yes to the other questions as well. Many concerns have dogged “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”: Could 55-year-old political aspirant Schwarzenegger still climb into his black leather Terminator duds? Could the new film measure up to other special effects epics that have eclipsed it in the interim? Could Jonathan Mostow even begin to fill Cameron’s shoes? Would audiences still care about the franchise 12 years after the spectacular “T2”?
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