10 Delayed Sequels That Really Weren't Worth The Wait

6. Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines (12 Years)

James Cameron's Terminator movies are without a doubt two of the greatest sci-fi actioners ever made, so it was hardly surprising that the long-awaited follow-up came burdened with impossibly high expectations. While Jonathan Mostow's Rise of the Machines was hardly an embarrassment, it was wasn't the movie that audiences had been anticipating for over a decade either. After years of declining offers to reprise his signature role as the T-800, Arnold Schwarzenegger finally decided to sign on to the project after meeting with James Cameron, who advised his friend not to do it for anything less than a $30m paycheck. Like its predecessor, Terminator 3 was the most expensive movie in history by the time it entered production, armed with a budget of $187.3m. While the movie does boast some great action scenes and one hell of an ending, it is still vastly inferior to the previous two movies. Nick Stahl is one-dimensional as John Connor, the limited Kristanna Loken fails to even convince as an emotionless cyborg, and Schwarzenegger strays dangerously close to self-parody as the title character in a movie that passes as a watchable popcorn movie, but fails as a worthy entry to the Terminator franchise.