Terminated film

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2017)

Now for look back at this " classic ".
OK. For us or for this review it is 2017. Now according to this Dungeons & Dragons meets The day the earth stood still plot line , we humanity will create a genocidal race of machines in just 12 short years. In this sad scenario a woman named Sarah Conner who is In fact the mother of the leader of man kinds resistance against these murderous machines is to be killed. A very comforting thought knowing a girl who can't even get her tables orders straight will be our salvation.
It business as usual for our heroine as she lands comfortably in her role as a 1980s twenty something. After ducking a phone call for her roommate that would land most men on the sex offender list , she is dumped on an evening dinner by her yuppie boyfriend. After being groped on her way she sets out for an average night in an average area of Los Angeles.
During all this hoopla , two beings have arrived from the future. One is a terminator. A machine from the future sent back to the pre - internet era to kill Sarah Conner , and along the way mangle half the phone books in town. The other arrival is an enlisted army officer Named Kyle Reese. His job is effectively protect Sarah from the terminator using a rock salt gun and several firecrackers.
The terminator begins killing Sarah Conner's all over Los Angeles in phone book order. ( this is why your number should always be unlisted folks.) Soon LAPD catches on and is out in force looking for our Sarah who is next on the list. This information reaches her by television at a local three star non zagat rated pizza joint. Immediately at this critical moment she goes to the pay phone to call the police station. It is out of order. To bad cell phones have not been invented.
She decides that paying five bucks to make a pay phone call at a new wave bar on Pico ave. is the way to go. Nothing beats good new wave music , particularly in a movie whose soundtrack is recorded in the marvelous enriching acoustics of mono. After a shoot out and car chase with the terminator Conner is brought up to speed on her predicament. Both are then captured by the cops.
The cops have very little time to sort things out before lugnuts shows up for some drive thru. After mowing through and entire department , the chase resumes. This is the area of the film where Sarah and Kyle fall in love though even 2017 most die hard fans of the movie admit how that happened is over their heads. Maybe , getting pregnant by a guy you have known for 60 minutes whilst being hunted by the Mobile version of CORTANA was hot for women back then who knows.
After , their " romance " , the machine finds them at their no star motel and it's back to business as usual. After a round of explosions and car crashes , pretty cut rate at the time as well , they blow up the bad guy. It must have really burned to see it walk out after being killed. Anyway as the computer killer robot hunts our two heroes they decide hiding in a computer factory is their best bet. Nothing like giving your opponent home court advantage to turn the tide in your favor. Either way the machines mission objectives are finally ...crushed.
So you have read this and are thinking OK , cheap budget effects it's the 80's. The plot is coherent and the acting not too shabby with a pretty good cast for its day. What gives bro?
Simple logic. The movie is not the movie it could be. In the DVD release of this film there are deleted scenes . In one of these scenes Sarah and Kyle are at some stopping point on their journey and Sarah points out to Kyle that she has found the address of the computer company responsible for the creation of the system in the first place. Why not blow it up , and skip the whole thing?
Because then we could not have several pointless sequels , another of which commits the same act only for us to receive more pointless sequels. I guess it is all you could expect from the guy that gave you Rambo.
These people act like all they care about is money and the quality of their work is secondary. Completely inexcusable.