Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines

he Terminator films are landmarks in popular filmmaking. Now, twelve years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, comes the new film, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. T3 stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in his signature role. Other key roles are played by Claire Danes, Nick Stahl, and Kristanna Loken, who plays a new more powerful and dangerous Terminatrix. As fast-paced and explosive as the first two films, T3 has new, more extraordinary special video and computer-generated effects, which combine to make an enormously entertaining blockbuster film for the summer. This is the story of John Connor, who is destined to become the head of the human resistance against the robotic forces of Skynet, the Artificial Intelligence that attacked humanity on Judgment Day. Son of the coura-geous Sarah Connor, John has grown up knowing that he was different. Protected when he was a boy by a Terminator, told of his destiny before he could truly comprehend the enormity of his responsibility, he is the person in whom all hope for humanity's future lies. His mother is dead; he's spent years in other peoples' homes hiding from his fate, and now he's being hunted by a more advanced-model Terminator come back from the deadly future. John has a secret edge, but he doesn't know it. All he knows is that his life is about to become one long, crazy flight from destruction. It's going to be a hell of a ride!

David Hagberg is the U. S. A. Today bestselling author of Kill Zone, High Flight, and more than forty other novels written under his own name and also as Sean Flannery. He lives in Vero Beach, Florida.