10 Movies Everyone Wanted To Love (But Nobody Did)
3. Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
As much as Terminator 2: Judgment Day brought James Cameron's sci-fi action franchise to an incredibly fitting conclusion, fans spent years excitedly awaiting a third film to also be directed by Cameron.
Yet when Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines finally materialised in 2003, Cameron had no involvement with it, but the returning presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger nevertheless gave fans hope for a worthy sequel.
Ultimately Terminator 3 was a solid movie in its own right, though like Toy Story 4 struggled to escape the long shadow cast by its vastly superior predecessors.
Arnie was great, the action was fun, and the bleak ending was awesome, but the comic relief largely fell flat, and overall it was hard not to view the movie as Diet Terminator, lacking the technical ingenuity and strong character work of T2.
Making a follow-up to one of the most important and popular blockbusters of all time is no easy task, and while plenty of people like T3, you'll struggle to find anyone who puts it on the same footing as the first two movies.