I've seen all the terminator love action movies and they all have their charms, but there was something special about one of the weakest of the franchise: Terminator 3 with Nick Stahl.

I liked how the reveal/turn at the climax was that Judgement Day truly was inevitable. everything leading up to the very end made it seem like they might stop it or delay it again. but when they got away from the killer robot to where they general told them to go, the protagonists finally saw that the key to their victory over skynet was not to prevent its nuclear assault on humanity, but to survive it and coordinate with all the various civil defense shelters by communicating key information at a time of absolute chaos and destruction. John Connor was no hardened warrior or robot slayer... he was just the guy who could connect the dots from a secure location under a mountain.

there was a lot of dumb robot booba b.s. in that movie, but the way it ended was almost poetic and caught me completely off guard.