The Terminator : "Hasta La Vista ...Baby"

 

The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose son will one day become a savior against machines in a post-apocalyptic future. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese, a soldier sent back in time to protect Sarah. The screenplay is credited to Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd, while co-writer William Wisher Jr. received a credit for additional dialogue. Executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in financing and production.

The Terminator topped the United States box office for two weeks. It helped launch Cameron's film career and solidify Schwarzenegger's status as a leading man. The film's success led to a franchise consisting of several sequels, a television series, comic books, novels and video games. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

As far as movies go in general, this is one of the most exciting and intense ever made. It is beautifully atmospheric, constantly thrills without a flaw in a very fast pace and has brilliant action scenes that still hold up extremely well regardless of the low budget.

T2 is a awesome movie as well, and will always be one of the great action movies, but the original has this distinct immersive atmosphere and a real sense of grittiness and doom that adds to the bleak theme of a inevitable storm coming that gives it the edge over its great sequel. A truly masterful sci-fi action thriller and one of the greatest movies of all time.

The Terminator was an influential film to the Sci-Fi genre, in influencing other movies in Sci-Fi. James Cameron brings us an astounding work of film that will leave you surprise and the thrill of a lifetime. The Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-100, delivers a petrifying tone to the movie as the villain who is ruthless and will never stop to find terminate Sarah Conner (played by Linda Hamilton). However, the Resistance sends in Kyle Reese (played by Michael Bein) from the future into 1984 to protect Sarah Conner from being terminated. This movie is more like a Action/Horror film because of its elements, sound design, visual effects, and also The Terminator. The action sequences are amazing with its characters and the visual effects too, like the Car Chase scene at the end of the movie. I recommend this movie to everybody including its successor, Terminator 2: Judgement Day!

This movie got 100% rating from rotten tomatoes which even movie like Avengers Endgame didn't got. Here we can get to know that how interesting and great movie it is.  Of course this is all because of Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron. Wonderful story it is. In this film we can get an idea that in future maybe robots/ computers can become more intelligent than us and they can rule over us. Acting of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role of a villain was hilarious and the famous dialogue of him which is used in every Terminator film 'I'll be back' which was first used in this film in the police station scene, other than that the arrival scene of T-800 and Ke Reese was awesome and the theme music is epic also with the climax scene in which Schwarzenegger dies in his original T-800 form.

The appeal of this movie is probably because the title character has a demeanor much in keeping with Mr. Spock, and, as Mr. Spock would say, is "fascinating". If you can get past the ludditeness and overall repugnant political outlook, it's a pretty good movie of this ilk. It's about a human looking robot sent back from the future to "terminate" (thus the title) the mother of the future's resistance leader. Now, normally watching this type of movie, and there have been many of this type before, and many after 'The Terminator's release, you probably get restless and impatient for the movie to get to the point, then, upon finishing, you realize the movie is completely pointless. What sets this movie apart, are the various vignette scenes that are more entertaining than usual. So, even though 'The Terminator' is just as pointless, it's a wee bit more fun.

It's also uncanny how similar the structure of 'The Terminator' plot is to the plot of 'Alien'. Both feature unhuman creatures bent on destroying humanity, and humanity's - or at least a small part of it - efforts to evade extinction, with the inevitable victory of human over the non human. It's not just thematically, it's also the sequence of the scenes and how the stories have minor peaks and valleys.

Anyway, I gave it a thumbs down, since a greater than 70% approval rating is ridiculous, and there isn't any number scale. Otherwise, I'd give it a 2 or 3 out of 10.