35 years on and The Terminator remains fantastic storytelling.

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2019)

This movie's still got it: punchy action, great techno-music adding to the 80s charm embedded in the production, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's greatest cinematic performance as The Terminator himself.
The Terminator is part-thriller, part-body-horror (via the T-800's disregard for its own flesh and eyes), part-neo-noir, all adrenaline-infused action telling a story of survival and desperation. It's a multi-genre and self-contained masterpiece that captured everything special about cinema in the 80s; and it's the film that catapulted James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger into Hollywood stardom.
This film's always been a favourite of mine, and it's still great rewatching over and over again. It's just one of those movies that you can keep rewatching and find something new almost every time you rewatch it.
Hollywood can keep trying to make a sequel to this and Terminator 2; it doesn't change the fact that the first two Terminator movies are incomparable classics of the sci-fi genre.
Is there anything about this movie that hasn't already been said? I'm not sure, but I can say that this movie's had a wonderful impact on people's creativity, and modern Hollywood owes a lot to this humble film and James Cameron.