User Reviews

Possibly the best 3D so ever made! You either enter the Cyberdyne Systems building(or just outside of it if you are at USH) and go into a queue, with great AC, and stainless steel walls. It appears you are about to see a persentation for Cyberdyne, as they have TVs all over playing ads, and also news about the 'terrorist attacks' in 1991, but assure us that everything is OK. We then walk and pick up our safety visiors(3D glasses) and enter the Miles Dyson theater, we stand here for about 5 minutes till the preshow starts. We are joined by Kimberly Ducan a perky women with power, she tells how Cyberdyne is the best thing ever and shows us the most awesome preshow video ever! It's pretty much imagine a world where everything is perfect with Cyberdynes tech, but then the family of the future hacks into the system, yes it's the one and only Conners. Sarah warns us to run for our lives and kill everyone... OK minus the second part, they show us how evil Skynet is and all that jazz, we are then warned to get out of the building before they- then the video kicks back in. Of corse Kimberly tells us nothing to worry about and we go into the main theater which is HUGE! The show starts and we are introduced to the T-70s and they shoot at some targets, just when they are about to bring on the big Skynet project the Conners crash the show. Sarah starts shooting up a storm but then all of a sudden the T-1000 morphs off the wall as the Cyberdyne sign, kills Kimberly, and is also after to kill us all but then, it's him, the time portal opens and the Terminator in his bad ass self rushes in just in time in his mortal cycle and blast the T-1000 away long enough to grab John and run back to the future(another good movie and ride BTW) a chase starts but luckily they get away, then out of the sky our heroes are chased by a HK. The are blown off the chopper, and just when we think we're safe it seems Skynet has an ace up it's sleve with the mini hunters. The HK drops 4 mini hunters, these little guys pack a lot of punch after running out of ammo our robot hero uses his gun as a bat, snatches the other and crush it. Once again we forget there is no safety in the Skynet future, as an endo blast through the wall and just as he is about to kill little Johnny boy, the T-800 uses the crushed mini hunter and slices off his head. John asks if it's a friend of his, and jokingly Aronld replies "he was my college roommate." John and the Terminator are on the run and enter they skynet building, where the mission is to end as the plan is to blow up the CPU, the only problem is the T-1,000,000 a spider like verion of the T-1,000 after freezing it it's blown away, John goes back in time as the Termintor uses bombs to destroy the CPU and the theater gets filled to fog and the seats do a slam down, John and Sarah are reunited and the future is safe for now, the terminator music kicks in and we exit to the left. If you stay you can see the huge Cyberdyne desk reset it's self.

This is my all time favorite ride anywhere. the first time I went on it I was ten and I fell for the 3D. I couldn't help but put my hands in front of my face and argue with the guy next to me that it was coming for me not him. the story is perfect for a theme park ride. their are details that are left out like "how did the Terminator arrive at the theater with being naked" and "how did the T-1000 get into the building". but who cares. besides those few details the ride is perfect. and it has the best 3D effects I've ever scene. it holds up against any other 3D ride on the planet.

the attack of the mini hunters is incredible for the day. and what will blow your mind the most is the characters walk off the screen onto the stage. the ending is phenomenal, with a giant life size 3D Terminator walking around the set from one screen to another. and the 3D is no where near cheesy. unlike a lot of films, this one won't do things like have somebody point their finger at you or something like that. no the machines fly into the audience. and it seems like they're reaching for you when the live actors run around the theater.

it's as brilliant a ride as the movie. if you go to universal Orlando or universal Hollywood, you can miss the one of kind master piece.

It doesn't happen too often that they get the director of the feature films to direct a follow-up short-film for a theme park attraction, but here it did. James Cameron was on board for this little sequel five years after Terminator 2 and one year before his epic Titanic movie. Also, he has some of the crew here that worked with him on the Schwarzenegger films or his big Oscar winner from 1997.

The film is basically what you could expect. With the inclusion of the director, they also managed to get all the big names from the cast on board (Schwarzenegger, Hamilton, Furlong, Patrick) and the result is (also thanks to the money they had available) not really worse than the previous movie. Fans of the franchise or of action movies in general will enjoy the motorbike scene or the fight of the good guys against the giant metal monster. Everybody else can give this one a pass and isn't missing too much.