Tom and Jerry: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Tom and Jerry: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is a 2021 American Live Action/animated action comedy-adventure direct-to-video film, produced by Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Pictures (WarnerMedia Byline), Warner Bros. Animation, Intermedia and C2 Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International based on (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 2003 Film)

Plot
Several years after destroying Cyberdyne Systems, John Connor has been living as a nomad following the death of his mother Sarah to hide from the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet, despite a war between humans and machines not happening in 1997, as foretold. Unable to locate John in the past, Skynet sends the T-X, an advanced prototype shapeshifting Terminator made of virtually impervious liquid metal, back in time to John's present in Los Angeles, to instead kill his future allies in the human resistance. It sends back a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator, a less-advanced metal endoskeleton covered in synthetic flesh, to protect the T-X's targets, including John and his future wife, Kate Brewster.

After killing other targets, the T-X locates the pair at an animal hospital, where Kate works. John becomes the T-X's primary target, but the Terminator helps him and Kate escape, taking them to a mausoleum where John's mother is supposedly interred. Inside her vault, they find a weapons cache left at Sarah's request in case Judgment Day was not averted and the Terminators returned. They escape from an armed battle with the police and fend off the pursuing T-X. The Terminator reveals that John and Sarah's actions only delayed Judgment Day and that Skynet's attack will occur that day; the Terminator intends to drive John and Kate to Mexico to escape the fallout when Skynet begins its nuclear attack at 6:18 p.m. John orders the Terminator to take Kate and him to see her father, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Robert Brewster. Kate agrees at her identical request, as she had reprogrammed the Terminator, who killed John in the future, in sending back in time for orders.

Meanwhile, General Brewster is supervising the development of Skynet for Cyber Research Systems (CRS), which also develops autonomous weapons. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pressures him to activate Skynet to stop an anomalous computer virus from invading servers worldwide. General Brewster unintentionally discovers that Skynet takes over the virus. John and Kate arrive too late to stop Skynet from being activated. The T-X fatally injures General Brewster and activates the CRS weaponized machines, which kill the employees. Before he dies, General Brewster gives Kate and John the location of what John believes is Skynet's system core. The pair head for the tarmac to take General Brewster's single-engine plane to Crystal Peak, a facility built inside the Sierra Nevada. After a battle, the T-X severely damages the Terminator, reprogramming it to kill John, and pursues John and Kate through the CRS facility. When a particle accelerator is activated, it magnetically binds the T-X to the equipment. The still-consciously-aware Terminator struggles to control its outer functions. As it prepares to kill John, he urges the Terminator to choose between its conflicting programming; it deliberately forces a shutdown of its corrupted system, enabling the pair's escape. Shortly after they leave, the Terminator's system reboots. Meanwhile, the T-X escapes the accelerator and resumes pursuit.

After John and Kate reach Crystal Peak, the T-X arrives by helicopter. Before it can attack, the Terminator arrives in a second helicopter and crashes into and crushes the T-X. The T-X pulls itself from the wreckage, losing its legs, and attempts to drag itself inside the bunker to follow the pair. The Terminator holds the bunker door open long enough for the pair to lock them inside then uses its last hydrogen fuel cell to destroy both itself and the T-X.

John and Kate discover that Crystal Peak is not Skynet's core, but rather a nuclear fallout shelter and command facility for government and military officials. Having no core, Skynet has become a part of cyberspace after becoming self-aware. Judgment Day begins as Skynet fires nuclear missiles worldwide, starting a nuclear holocaust that kills billions. The pair begin receiving radio transmissions on the emergency equipment; John tentatively assumes command by answering radio calls, and they reluctantly accept their fate.

Cast

 * Richard Kind as Tom
 * Dana Hill as Jerry
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator
 * Nick Stahl as John Connor.
 * Kristanna Loken as the T-X
 * Claire Danes as Katherine "Kate" Brewster
 * David Andrews as Lieutenant General Robert Brewster
 * Mark Famiglietti as Scott Mason
 * Earl Boen as Dr. Peter Silberman

Trivia:

 * Rated PG-13: mild violence, threat, rude humour, language.
 * Suggested Running Times: 137 minutes (NTSC), 78 Minutes (PAL).
 * This is a crossover between Tom and Jerry and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).
 * This will feature the Return performance of Richard Kind (the voice of Tom) and Dana Hill (the voice of Jerry)