Targeted for termination...

Rating: 10/10 (12 June 2006)

Arnold Scwarzenegger stars as a cyborg sent back to 1984 to wipe out Sarah Connor(Linda Hamilton) due to her giving birth to what will be the savior of mankind in the future. I remember seeing this back when I was 11 back when kids could get into R rated action movies without an ID. I saw this movie and I realized that my mom would have killed me if she would have known what I had been watching in the theater playing this movie. I was used to the R rated blood lust from various Friday The 13th movies and therefore I had walked out of theaters with my friends in an uproar over the carnage. Not this time, my friends and I walked out as if we had seen the goriest snuff film ever made. However I don't want to give off the impression that this was a bad feeling, indeed we went back the next day to see it again! We would feel the same way after seeing Aliens. The Terminator though was unlike anything we had ever seen, the pace was brutal and the action sequences were frightening in their intensity. The police station massacre and indeed even the opening scene set the tone for one of the greatest epics ever saw. It's an awesome movie. It really is.
* * * * out of 4-(Excellent)