The Movie That Created The One Really Famous Line!

Rating: 10/10 (29 September 2008)

The Terminator is truly an action and sci-fi classic, no doubt that. It has all the right elements in it. A good plot, a good cast, good action sequences and a wonderful director in the form of James Cameron. The story is about a machine that looks like a human being, a cyborg, who has been sent back in time in order to kill a certain lady named Sarah Conner. She has to be killed so that John Conner, who is her son, does not exist. His birth has to be prevented because John Conner is going to lead the human resistance against the machines. Needless to say, it is the machines that have sent back this machine to do the job.
But the human resistance is well aware of this mission and plot. So, the human resistance sends a noble warrior to aid Sarah Conner. And no, this warrior is not a machine too. He is a human being but someone who comes from a time where he has seen enough of these machines to know how to possibly take care of one to some extent. And the chase is on. The Terminator hunts down Sarah and tries to do his job. And of course, there is someone who is going to prevent that from happening.
Arnold has a perfect physique and the right face to play the role of the cyborg. It is not that easy to be expressionless like a cyborg and Arnold convinces us thoroughly that he indeed is a machine who just happens to look like a human being. Sarah's protector does a wonderful job as the human warrior that he is. Linda Hamilton, playing Sarah also brings about the right range of expressions to suit her role. All in all, the cast is fantastic. And add to this, the beautiful and clean direction of Cameron and the wonderful special effects, this movie becomes what it is - a great masterpiece.
There are some people of course who find this movie a little dull compared to the second part of the movie i.e. Terminator 2 : Judgment Day. There is no doubt about the fact that T2 is indeed a wonderful movie but at the same time one must not forget that this movie comes out way before T2 and considering the time in which the movie was made, what has been showcased in this chapter of the Terminator story, is simply amazing.