By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * * *)
Ten years after Arnie mumbled, "I'll be back," there is a new terminator, the T-X (Kristanna Loken).
She is a leather-clad assassin sent to eliminate 18-year-old John Connor (Nick Stahl) before the war between humans and machines.
Trying to save Connor is the T-101 (our
man), who must also protect Kate Brewster (Clare Danes), formerly Connor's girlfriend.
Ranked against the earlier Terminator movies, this has a better story, better effects, and considerable self-knowledge.
DVD features: 2-disc set features movie (105min); commentaries with director Jonathan Mostow and Schwarzenegger, Stahl, Danes and Loken; and with Mostow alone; trailer; video game preview; deleted scene; HBO Making of ... ; gag reel; 6 short features on stunts, graphics, previous films; DVD-ROM links.
