People get ready. There's a storm a-coming

Rating: 8/10 (11 September 2009)

***SPOILERS*** The future clashes with the present in the film "The Terminator" when cyborg assassin played by the robotic-like and indestructible Arnold Schwarzenegger is sent back to 1984 L.A. on a mission of murder and survival. The Terminator's mission is to terminate Sarah Connors, Linda Hamilton, who's yet unborn son John will start a human uprising against the super intelligent machines who are destroying what's still left, in 2029, of the human race.
As we as well as Sarah soon learn from time traveler Kyle Reese, Michael Biehn, a human freedom fighter and John Connors' top commander who's also sent back from the future-2029-that it's of the utmost importance for her to survive in order to give birth to John who's to lead a revolt and defeat the future machines which he in fact did. Sending the Terminator to kill Sarah is the only way the machines can checkmate John's destruction of them and it's his job, by any means necessary, to murder her in order to prevent that from happening!
Non-stop action with the Terminator hell bent to murder Sarah and Reese doing his best to prevent that from happening. In his single-minded effort to rub out Sarah The Terminator spears no effort in arming himself to the teeth by knocking off a sporting goods store, and murdering its owner, as he goes out hunting for Sarah Connors in L.A and its surrounding suburbs. As things turn out the Terminator checking out the local L.A telephone book ends up murdering two other women with the identical name of Sarah Connors before he finally tracks down the one that he's really looking for at a local L.A disco. It's just then that Reese shows up and with shotgun blazing keeps the Terminator from completing his murderous mission.
On the run from the police as well as the Terminator Reese and Sarah end up trapped by the killer cyborg at a deserted factory who by now, with all the bullets and bombs he's absorb, is nothing but a shell, with his outer plating or human features all but obliterated, of his former self!
***SPOILER ALERT*** Explosive final sequence with the Terminator taring up the entire factory to get to both Sarah and Reese but ending up like the pile of junk-nuts & bolts and computer chips-that he at first started out as when he was created, or manufactured, back in 2029 by his masters and fellow nuts & bolts people the artificially intelligent machines! The mindless murderous and disrespectful,to the laws of man as well as nature, robotic brute was in the end himself terminated by the very person or persons, Sarah & Reese, who's lives he was out to extinguish with a super large dose of "Terminal Justice"! As for Sarah she in fact did survive to give birth, out of wedlock, to her both future son and rebel hero John Connors. Knowing what the future holds Sarah is now making sure, via audio recordings and letters, that her soon to be born son will be ready for the monumental task, after a nuclear war started by the machines, that's awaiting him in the not so distant future: As the "Savior" of the "Human Race"!