Good movie but still could be better

Rating: 7/10 (3 February 2007)

The allusion to Terminator 2 happened in Terminator 1. In Terminator 1 there is the Terminator killing over 15 police officers.
Little did I realize that all of this killing was a diversion for the Terminator's main mission...to put to death Sarah Connor.
The big climax of course was the big piece of what this movie was all about. The chase scene between the young soldier and Sarah Connor and the stalking Terminator.
And that young soldier who threw nitroglycerin bombs at the Terminator during the chase scene was vulnerable. Every time the bombs blew up, the Terminator found a way to evade them.
Well, the young soldier wins a partial victory against the Terminator's stalking of Sarah Connor, putting one nitro bomb on the Terminator's body. The Terminator blows up when the bomb detonates but the young soldier, sadly, immediately dies from blunt force trauma from the Terminator's roundhouse punch to the soldier's head before the soldier planted the bomb into the Terminator.
The blast leaves the Terminator only in a bare endoskeleton with only his face, arms and torso intact (the legs were completely gone), and you think he's gone? No. He comes back meaner and treacherous than ever, as he entraps Sarah Connor. But Sarah Connor knows what to do. The Terminator doesn't know about a crushing hydraulic press...only about killing Sarah. The Terminator's hand extends to Sarah's neck, but Sarah escapes eventual doom by pressing the red button to set off the hydraulic press.
The Terminator has no escape....he gets crushed to death by the press in about 20 seconds...and never to return to life again.