Better than I expected. *Some spoilers*

Rating: 8/10 (18 July 2003)

Terminator 1. Great movie, scaringly believable plot... setting standards. Time is immutable. The only reason John Conner exists is because SkyNet tried to terminate his mother in the first place. The machines had no way of knowing that, so they tried anyway.
Terminator 2. Still a good movie, better action... plot with more holes than a slotted spoon. We change how things happened, so much so that by the end of the movie we are led to believe that the war never happens. In direct contrast to the standards laid out in the first movie.
Terminator 3. Better than both it's predesessors. Action ten times better than the first two combined. The plot? Some of you may have missed it hidden way in there behind all that action, but it was there. Not a whole lot of it I admit, but it was there.
*Spoilers here* So is time immutable? No. Is time an easy thing to change? No. What happened in T2 was such a huge event that it shook up the future enough to delay Judgement Day for years. We believe that the loop was broken after T2, but instead we find that the loop has simply changed. But now the war's started, now there's no turning back. The resistance will arise, John Conner will lead humanity towards victory... but not before sending the man he knows is his father back in time to his doom. Will it happen differently? Not at first. Not at second either, John will want to make sure it happens the same way. Only this time round, John knows he's going to be killed before the third Terminator is reprogrammed... he'll be ready. SkyNet doesn't know any different.
So what happens next? Simple, John wins the war against the machines, we already know this... and the shattered remains of humanity begin anew. But there's a difference. There are probably a many number of events that could unite all of humanity towards a common goal... and that would be one of them. In this new future... we stand united. We stand as one.
This story, is over.