A movie ahead of its time

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2000)

2029, ruins, ashes, and machines. The future is a war between the humans and the machines. In 1997 a computer company will develop a defense system that strikes at targets. Something goes wrong, the computer decides to destroy its creators insted. A large thermal nuclear war begins. Some pepole survived the nuke and scramble to shelter. The computer realizes that there are survivors and sends out soldier like machines called terminators to hunt them down. It also sends out tank like machines and chopper like machines. Some survivors formed groups to fight the machines. One man teaches the survivors how to fight back. The humans turn the war around and are on the brink of defeating the machine. The computer sends a new type of terminator, that looks incredibly human to the past.
Skip back to 1984. Sarah Connor is 19, she is not attractive to men she asks out. She has a lousy job and a friend who is very popular with guys. So one night she goes out to a dance club called TECHNOR and her life changes. The terminator arrives and kills all the Sarah Connor in L.A. except for the 19 year old. Meet Kyle Reese a lone, tired, soldier from the same time as the terminator who is also looking for Sarah Connor. In TECHNOR the terminator nearly kills Sarah but Reese stops him with a shotgun. Sarah learns that the terminator is sent back to kill her and Reese is sent back to save her. Her unborn son will be the man that will stop the machines and lead the humans tword victory. The story heats up as the terminator takes shots, pipe bombs, even gets ran over by an 18 wheeler in his quest to kill Sarah. And it all leads to the pulse throbing end in the computer factory.