Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Page #4

Synopsis: More than 10 years after 'Terminator 2', John Connor now exists only as a drifter - living 'off the grid', so no more Terminators from the future can hunt him down. Unfortunately, SkyNet does send another one back - and this one is called the T-X, even more powerful & advanced than the dreaded T-1000. However, another CSM-101 Terminator is also sent back to protect John against the T-X. Now, Skynet is patiently assuming control of civilian computer systems, under the guise of a computer virus. John has also met his future wife, Kate Brewster, whose father - a U.S. Air Force General - is in charge of the military computer systems & is leery of up linking SkyNet. However, when the SkyNet virus infects the U.S military computers & leaves the country open to attack, the machines begin their horrific takeover. Soon a nuclear war will result - and the war against the machines will begin. Can the outdated CSM-101 Terminator eliminate the highly advanced T-X - or will a darker future await man
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Jonathan Mostow
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  3 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
R
Year:
2003
109 min
$150,252,753
Website
3,533 Views


Crystal Peak. You have

to get to Crystal Peak.

-What is he saying?

-Crystal Peak.

A hardened facility

in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Fifty-two miles northeast,

bearing 0.5 degrees.

That's the system core?

It's your only chance.

You'll need a plane. The particle accelerator

leads to the runway.

Take care of my daughter.

Oh, Katie, I am sorry.

I opened Pandora's box.

Get down!

No...

No.

There's nothing you can do. Come on.

We must go. It is not safe here.

Kate, we have to go.

Kate! He wanted you to come with me.

He wanted us to shut Skynet down.

Come on.

Come on.

Run!

Let's go.

That's it. We can follow it

out to the runway.

Come on.

What?

Nothing.

You remind me of my mother.

Oh, God. She's coming.

What are you doing?

Powering up.

Come on.

It's working.

Just die, you b*tch!

Come on.

There's my father's plane.

I trained on it.

Yes! He made it.

Get away from me.

Leave!

Now!

Let's go!

-The master's on. Throttle's set.

-Come on. Let's go.

Oh, please. You can't do this.

I have no choice.

The T-X...

...has corrupted my system.

You can't kill a human being.

You said so yourself.

Let him go!

You're fighting it right now.

My CPU is intact.

But I cannot control my other functions.

You don't have to do this.

You don't want to do this!

Desire is irrelevant.

I am a machine.

What is your mission?

To ensure the survival of John Connor...

...and Katherine Brewster.

You are about to fail that mission!

I can- I cannot.

You know what you have to do.

You know my destiny.

I have to live.

-Are you okay?

-What happened?

He couldn't do it.

He shut himself down.

-Can you fly?

-Yeah.

Okay. 015 degrees...

...52 miles, our max air speed

is about 160.

We've got 32 minutes.

It's just you and me now.

What if we can't stop it?

There's enough C-4 here

to take out 10 supercomputers.

We're gonna make it, Kate.

The future is up to us.

That's gotta be it.

Skynet. There may be more of them.

Come on.

I think this is some kind of blast door.

There's no way

we can blow through this thing.

John, look.

Now what?

It's a code prompt.

Type in "Dakota 775."

"Red 176."

Come on!

We gotta get this thing open.

Here. It's "Avalon 412."

Put it in!

Come on!

I'm back.

Go! Now!

Come on!

-Thank you.

-We'll meet again.

Go!

Come on!

You are terminated.

The elevator.

I'll set the detonator for five minutes.

That should give us enough time

to make it back up.

What is this place?

These computers are 30 years old.

This isn't Skynet.

There's nothing here.

This is a fallout shelter for VIPs.

Only they never got the warning.

Goddamn it!

There's nothing here!

Why didn't he tell us?

Why did he lead us down here?

To live.

That was his mission.

There was never any stopping it.

John...

...we could just...

...let it go.

Hello?

Hello? Can somebody hear me?

This is Montana Civil Defense.

Somebody please come in.

Is there anybody there?

Anyone reading me? Over.

Rumors about a launch sequence.

Command and control have broken down.

Is anyone receiving me?

Somebody?

Somebody please come in.

Anybody out there?

-This is SAC Nellis. We're under attack.

-CQ? CQ?

Is anybody there?

This is John Connor at Crystal Peak.

Connor? What the hell is happening?

Who's in charge there?

I am.

Connor, can you help us?

This is Montana Civil Defense.

Where did you say you were again?

By the time Skynet

became self-aware...

...it had spread into millions

of computer servers across the planet.

Ordinary computers in office buildings,

dorm rooms, everywhere.

It was software in cyberspace.

There was no system core.

It could not be shut down.

The attack began at 6:18 p. m.,

just as he said it would.

Judgment Day.

The day the human race

was nearly destroyed...

...by weapons they'd built

to protect themselves.

I should have realized our destiny

was never to stop Judgment Day.

It was merely to survive it...

...together.

The Terminator knew.

He tried to tell us...

...but I didn't want to hear it.

Maybe the future has been written.

I don't know.

All I know is what

the Terminator taught me:

Never stop fighting.

And I never will.

The battle has just begun.

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Michael Ferris (21 November 1931 – 20 March 2000) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for more than twenty years as a member of the Oireachtas, as both a Senator and a Teachta Dála (TD). more…

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