"I crossed time for you, Sarah"

Rating: Null/10 (9 April 2003)

O.k., that is kind of a cheesy opening, but my point is that this movie works as a love story almost as much as it does as an action movie. It is an amazing movie, maybe one of the ten best I have ever seen. It gets better with time. Its few critics here, it seems, just want to blow up the eighties. Good luck. Instead, try making some memorable films today so that this isn't thought of as the empty period of popular movies. For example, people are praising and praising Lord of the Rings The Two Towers and even the latest Star Wars, mainly because our expectations have slipped. Compare those two movies to Terminator. Granted, the evil, dog-like humanoid war creatures in The Two Towers are amazing and scary as hell, but that, along with a little suspense in the battle scenes, is about it. As scary as the Two Towers creatures are, Terminator himself was equally scary, and there is just so much more in terms of character development and prolonged suspense. As for the new Star Wars and its phony CGI effects, there is no reason to even compare it to Terminator. My point is that popular, mainstream movies are a reflection of the time period. Terminator reflects well on the eighties. (Terminator II was good, but it is probably an 8 at most, somehwere around Two Towers' neighborhood, slightly below The Fellowship of the Ring, which at least had emotion and character development, slightly above the latest Star Wars. Terminator is a ten).