3. The Ending (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
Arnold Schwarzenegger returned as the T-800 12 years after the commercial and critical success of James Cameron's Terminator 2 in a movie that had a misleading subtitle (I think about half a dozen machines rose up), but one hell of an ending. At the time the most expensive movie ever made, the action scenes are as large-scale as you would expect from the Terminator franchise but viewed as a whole the movie is a disappointment. The script is weak and too reverential to the previous movies, Arnie seems to be acting on autopilot and ironically for a machine allegedly made out of metal, Kristanna Loken's TX is horribly wooden. Where the movie does succeed is the final scene. The ending sees John Connor come to the realisation that he simply cannot escape his destiny, and Skynet was never going to be stopped. The Terminator had merely taken him to safety so he could become the leader he kept being told he would be. Accepting his fate, he assumes control as we see a montage of the nuclear holocaust that would become known as Judgment Day.