The Terminator

Rating: 7/10 (1 August 2014)

Title: The Terminator
Condensed Storyline: A robot assassin is sent back in time to kill the mother of a future resistance leader
Notable Acting: This movie had a great cast of actors who would be known for this movie for the rest of their careers. The secondary character were also great and added to the story as a good secondary character should.
Noticeable Camera work: I do not need to say that there will be no interesting or unique shots in this movie, mainly because it is an 80's movie and movies weren't all too interested in showing us their ability to use their camera in unique ways until the 2000s
Costume: The actor playing the Terminator may not blend in, but his punk clothing sure does blend into the punk scene
Incorrect Science: The Terminator buys an automatic Uzi at one point. I may be from a country which has a choke hold on owning firearms, but I know that fully automatic weapons are illegal in America and that any gun store selling fully automatic weapons wouldn't have them up on a wall. The paradox of Kyle being John's father along with the cliché of the woman getting pregnant after the first time they've had sex (I know it's possible, but it's still a cliché) Kyle points out that Terminators are suppose to blend in, this doesn't work when you have a body builder with a thick foreign accent playing the role. "Only living things can go through the teleporter" This works good for this movie, but not for the second movie when the Terminator is liquid metal with no skin.
Overall Feel: This is the movie which elevated the knowledge of its main actors, before this movie only a hand full of people would know Arnold as he played Conan a couple years before, it is a similar story for the other two main actors. But this movie made their names known. Sadly I cannot say that this movie is my favourite, as that goes to Terminator 2, but this was the movie that set the wheels in motion for the franchise. The idea for the Terminator was actually take from a book outside of the franchise which also involved time travel assassinations and was credited.