When "The Terminator" was released in 1984 it was hailed as groundbreaking for it's amazing special effects for the time. James Cameron(Director of Alien & Titanic) created one of the greatest Science Fiction film that influenced other films for years to come. It's been almost twenty-five years and the power "The Terminator" released onscreen still holds strong even by today's standards this film is a gem of the golden era of Sci-Fi and helped usher in a new generation of Sci-Fi.





James Cameron's "The Terminator" is smart, taunt, highly entertaining, epic,breathtaking and visually stunning. It's essentially the perfect apocalyptic thriller with a theme so original and haunting it's almost scary, in fact it is scary. The main focal point of the plot is focused mainly on Sarah Connor a waitress who unknowingly has been marked for death due to the fact later on she gives birth to the future leader of the resistance. Sounds outrageous I know but it works on so many interesting and mind boggling levels that it just feels so real when it should feel cheesy and cheap, but this film is so great and powerful in it's story and execution that it just leaps out and grabs you and won't let you go until the credits roll.




Arnold Schwarzenegger is powerful and robotic(as he should be for a role like this.)he really gives this iconic character the realistic punch that it needs and requires. Linda Hamilton is good as Sarah Connor but she really lags in some places but she pulls the part off nicely. Michael Biehn as Kyle Resse is good but in noways a great actor his acting is poor in this film but it doesn't topple the picture but he doesn't help much either. But all in all the cast does well and holds up nicely and deliver good performances in one of the greatest Sci-Fi films of all time.


"The Terminator" is great and smart fun that can be watched as many times as you can take it It's just too good to ignore or pass up and once you see it you won't look at action flicks or Science Fiction/apocalyptic thrillers the same way ever again. All in all "The Terminator" is one futuristic adventure you'll want to take.

The Terminator is one of the all time greats featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger a cyborg sent back in time to destroy sarah connors the mother to the man who saves mankind in a war against machines in the future. This movie is a classic great and made it easy to give it 5/5 stars a must watch...