Outstanding, simply outstanding.

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 1999)

I've always been a SF nut and this movie just strengthened the appeal of the genre.
Without a doubt, this is the finest SF movie ever made. Several reasons send this point home:
(a) While I am not advocating restrictions on technological advancement, this shows that runaway technological advancements may not be to our advantage.
(b) At the present rate of technological advancement, this movie is not farfetched in any way, shape or form. Time travel being the only real stretch.
(c) It illustrates, as Reese puts it, "one possible outcome" of our headlong rush into the future.
Mr. Cameron depicts the ruthlessness, focus, and single-mindedness the machine mind when given a directive to follow. The violence is all directed towards making the horror of such an occurrence believable. It is not "blood and guts" violence for the pure sake of "blood and guts" violence. The gore is surprisingly minimal considering the level of carnage shown.

The truly frightening aspect of the film is that humanity is perched on the brink of bringing just this type of outcome to reality.