You need to be a die hard Terminator fan of 1 & 2 to truly love this movie. You need to understand what the movie shows as it’s perspective to not only time travel but to the future as we think to know it. In T1 we get horror, we get a robot sent from the future to kill everything. In the T2 film we get the same concept only John Connor teaches the machine the value of human life and that saving his life isn’t the only reason to be  of help. You almost see a slight human emotion in Arnold at the very end of t2 as the others are crying because he needs to self Terminate. His thumbs up confirming it as he perishes. Now in T3 you get complete homage to all the previous Terminators as if the other installments like Salvation and Genisys never existed. You feel like it is T1 T2 and now T3 continuing the story. The lead character must be saved and they make that very obvious in the previews. For the first time Terminator viewers see CGI actually plays a great role in the film. As previous Terminator films actual models and hand made props were made to look like a futuristic apocalypse land. In this it’s all done with CGI so they spare you the small details of what a robot is and jump right to what it can do. They even speed by the examples of small details the viewers can figure out for themselves. They make several references to the previous Terminators but with a twist that either leaves you in amazement or you get a slight chuckle about the differences of an entirely new generation of the same story you know all too well. Sarah is just as tough as you expect her to be the entire film. The new character played by Natalie Reyes does a great job at being the new important person caught in the hurricane of technology. You wonder how all these time lines overlap as an original terminator fan but you soon realize these paradoxes of time travel are meant to have holes in the story to further more rabbit trails that never end. Arnold reprises his role with a new twist that is so believable you fall in love with his character all over again. He is still the protector yet the machine with funny witty comments yet still plays a bad mutherfucker, The new machine who is a woman shows the right human attributes for you to like her character as well. She also requires different needs and wants to make the story jive with her mission. The supporting characters all play small roles in impacting the story but support the idea that no one knows what is really going on as the world goes into chaos through Judgement Day. They do a good job explaining each persons role and where their characters origin comes from. You get plenty of action and CGI does a great job in explaining how strong the new terminator is. Which the person who plays the bad guy does a great job of playing a pretend human but acts like a sinister killer with no remorse. Very believable bad guy as we re-learn the bad guy doesn’t need to be Arnold size to be lethal  like how the T1000 was not a big guy but very dangerous. The story-line all makes sense and if you are a real deal true fan you can see how the story lets you see the milestones in the characters journey throughout the story. They make several references to technology in-the-now and how it can turn against us which in previous Terminator movies the world was only introduced to just so much technology at those times through the 1980s & 90’s. Yet with this version you see it in the now and what could happen. This is James Cameron’s craft that makes me say, he did it again teamed up with Tim Miller. They pay so much respect to John Connor and you have to see it to understand but Terminator 2 was my favorite movie of all time so I am a bit bias. Still, great movie to check out. One critique I have is actually in the Previews they made before the movies release. They should have shown a shorter clip of Arnold to make you more unsure on his role. Also, I understand Edward Furlong has been in a difficult state but the team should have got him clean and sober for this movie which was a break through in his initial career. They should have done whatever it takes to put john right back in. They had to create an entirely new story around John Connor all because Edward Furlong wants to get drunk and high in real life. That’s just sad as he was a hero to many kids who wanted to have their very own Terminator growing up riding a dirt bike through CA and leader if the some day resistance. Instead the movie does great but John Connor was the main point.