Cameron at his best!

Rating: Null/10 (31 October 2002)

This is the movie that started Schwarzenegger's career, and, as we all know, his acting has only slightly bettered since. But that's not the problem. Schwarzenegger is at his best as the reckless, unmotivated robot trying to hunt down and kill Sarah Connor. And the more inhuman he seems to be, the more human the whole story gets. Behind all the action, explosions and the furious (although cheap slow-motion) end, there is a deeper message: even if you feel small and unimportant, you can be of some paramount importance in the future. The most intense scene are not those when the Terminator kills the dancers in the disco or runs amuck in the police station. It's the loving scene in the middle of the movie, when John Connor is conceived. This scene is intense, and is interrupted by the nearing Terminator that abruptly disturbs the whole scene. A great combination. Terminator is thus a typical movie of the 80's with a lot of shootings, but, beneath it, a great story, and a message that makes the movie my all-time favorite.