Arnie at his best

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2005)

Terminator is one of those films that demands a multitude of repeat screenings. The storyline is genuinely interesting, a cyborg from the future (Arnie) having been sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor. Sent back to fight the cyborg is Michael Biehn. There are numerous brilliant moments in Terminator, but undoubtedly the film's finest hour comes when Arnie crashes a car into a police station before unleashing his machine guns mercilessly on the entire police force! There is so much shooting that even the most devoted of action fans will not be left wanting. Possibly Arnie's most famous one-liner makes its debut before the police station attack, 'I'll be back' being delivered with acres of Austrian menace! There are a few slow moments in the film, particularly the scenes where we are introduced to Sarah Connor, but the rest of the movie more than makes up for these few minutes of dullness. The sequels are not as good as the original, this film having been made in the mid 80s before the ultra-sanctimonious censor brigade got their hands on Hollywood. Too many films promise raw violence and don't deliver, Terminator does. Well worth buying.