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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: The Current Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Here is the plot of “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” now in general release: a Terminator arrives from the future with a mission to protect John Connor, who is fated to grow up and lead the human resistance movement against the onslaught of intelligent machines. |
 | | Terminator groupies, on the other hand, will want to establish the exact ratio of buck to bang, in which case I should gently draw their attention to the opening and closing sequences, both of which feature pretty, almost floral displays of nuclear detonation. |
 | | The T-X in “Terminator 3” has a glacial grace, but she is all mechanism, and she lacks the sexiness of Robert Patrick’s T-1000 in “Terminator 2,” whose mercurial transformations were a perfect, oozing showcase for the Devil in all his guises. |
| www.newyorker.com /critics/cinema?030714crci_cinema (1555 words) |
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