Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also referred as Terminator 3 or T3) is a 2003 American science fiction action film, directed by Jonathan Mostow. It is the third installment in the Terminator film series, after The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The film was produced by IMF Internationale Medlein und Film and C2 Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States and Columbia Pictures, and was released on July 2, 2003. Followed by Terminator Salvation in 2009.

Plot
John Connor (Nick Stahl) has been living off the grid in Los Angeles in the years following the death of his mother, Sarah, from leukemia. Although Judgment Day did not occur on August 29, 1997, as excepted, John still believes that a war between humans and the machines will occur. Unable to locate John in the past, Skynet sends a new model of the Terminator called the T-X (Kristanna Loken) back to July 24, 2004, to kill other members of the Human Resistance. The T-X is more advanced than previous Terminators, and has an endoskeleton with built-in weaponry, a liquid metal exterior similar to the T-1000, and the ability to reprogram other machines. Unlike previous Terminators, its standard appearance is female. The Resistance sends a reprogrammed Terminator (T-850 - Model 101) back in time to protect the T-X's targets including John and his future wife, Kate Brewster (Clair Danes).

After killing several other targets, the T-X locates Kate and John at an animal hospital, where the former works and the latter was stealing from; but they escape with the terminator's help after being chased through the city. The Terminator takes John and Kate to a mausoleum where John's mother, Sarah Connor, is supposedly interred. Inside her vault, they find a weapons cache that was left as Sarah's request in case Judgment Day was not averted. Police arrive and a gun battle ensues, but John and the Terminator escape with Kate in a hearse. The T-X also arrives, after murdering Kate's fiancé Scott