Mostly Good

Rating: 5/10 (17 September 2014)

I really prefer the first Terminator movie because it is darker and just has a more real feel and edgier tone. It's bleaker and just more pure sci fi to me.
Kind of the same way I feel about Alien (best sci fi movie ever in my opinion except maybe for 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Aliens/Alien 2, just like that movie Terminator got a lot bigger and went for way more action with a much bigger budget. Still a good movie don't get me wrong but it lost a lot of the magic.
For one thing, Arnold S. as the evil killing machine assassin from the future was wicked. That scene where he takes out the entire police station? Wicked! But because it's Hollywood the producers or he or his agents said that he has to be the GOOD guy so he comes back as a machine to be the kid's bodyguard. Would have been better in my mind to stick with him as the killer.