No! No ! No ! No ! No ! Mr. Roboto!

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2003)

Highly enjoyable, well-directed, and evenly scripted foray into the nature of time and what could happen if earlier events were tampered with in the future. The movie opens...you know all that stuff I am sure. I find the whole idea of changing spatial realities fascinating. Arnold comes to Earth to kill a woman that will bear a child that causes a future controlled by machines much grief. Another being - a man - also comes through time to see if he can save the woman. The story really is the strength of this film. Cameron does a quality job with the direction giving us more than enough special effects, car collisions, shootings, and a tireless parade of swan songs for the Robot, yet the script is able to promote a sense of humanity through all this with its interesting plot and characterizations. Linda Hamilton does a fine job as a beautiful woman just trying to make a living who is all of a sudden sucked into a 21st century plot that desires her death and will stop at no means to acquire it. Michael Biehn is good too, as is the rest of the cast. I really enjoyed the by-play between Paul Winfield and Lance Henrickson as policemen. Arnold is Arnold. He is the Terminator. It is one of his better performances, because he has such little dialogue and has an odd ability to look menacing and void of any great thought.