Sarah Conner...?

Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2007)

The Terminater: Huge and almost unstoppable, but not just a tank with legs, it uses subterfuge and guerrilla tactics to hunt its enemy down. It has an artificial intelligence that seems both human and machine.
Reese: Was raised in a future concentration camp, instead of Nazis they are run by machines and their credo is not to wipe out one race but all races, all organic life.
Sarah Conner: mother to a hero, but when we first see her she's just an ordinary twenty year old with no major plans for the future.
There are many great scenes in Termniater and a few duff ones, in places the effects look great and in others the budget and technology of the time make scenes look dated. The main theme of the film is technology gone out of control, this was made during the height of the cold war and 'a nuclear error' (to quote Joe Strummer) was on everyones mind. the Termninater is a great screen villain, completely implacable following his grisly programming without an iota of self doubt, truly a 'super soldier'. The cast turn in great performances even the minor roles are well fleshed out, particularly the humorous interplay between the 'seen it all before' detectives. It has a bleak apocalyptic ending with Sarah retreating to the mountains of Mexico to raise John in isolation to fight the future war.