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Rating: Null/10 (19 January 2000)

For first time audience, The Terminator it is as a real experience as it gets, with the acceptance that it is a low-budget SCI-fi/action. This is the visualized reason, out of a thousand others, of why we shouldn't agree a nuclear war.
The movie marked James Cameron's second directed movie, after the loosy PIRANHA 2, that became his real ticket to Hollywood.
The casting is an amazing crew of, at that time, newcomers. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (The Terminator) is the perfect kind of an inhuman but human-looking robot. His muscular features and his "robotic" Austrian accent makes him 100% believable as the ruthless Cyborg who's only mission is to kill a young woman, Sarah Connor. LINDA HAMILTON (Sarah Connor) is the one who we have sympathy for because she doesn't know that she is going to carry on the child that will grow up to the man who will lead the command to the counterstrike the Cyborgs, JOHN CONNOR. The Cyborgs has put a high price on that man if he gets killed. And if there weren't time to kill him during the war, send someone to kill the woman who gave birth to their worst enemy who will otherwise save the world from the Judgement Day. She makes the role really good and is a truly everyday working girl. Worth seeing. MICHAEL BIEHN (Kyle Reese) who plays the man, who's sent to protect Connor, is damn good who tries to tell the truth for her and win her faith before The Terminator has finished his mission. When you listen to him, he really is from the future and you can also feel sympathy for him and feel the pain he suffered from the war.
All necessary characters are involved in this action-movie. One Hero, One Woman, One Enemy; who are all acted out really well.
Great direction, both technically and physically. The Cinematography endarkens the whole picture to a scary environment. The special Terminator effects are stunning. "The Terminator Theme" by Brad Fiedel is memorable but there I will put one minus due to the loosy techno inspired tones he has been using in scoring the movie.
The picture says more than a hymn. And a bad hymn gives a misapprehended picture. I will say that if it weren't for the music/technotrance, I had given this movie a 9/10 instead of 7,5/10.
However, If you want to see the most original motion picture ever. This movie is the right choice.
The Terminator is a highly recommended movie.