The Defining Sci-fi

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2009)

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was the first Terminator movie I saw, and I greatly enjoyed it. When I heard the first two were better, I bought both of them without a second thought, before even watching them. Was I disappointed? NO.
The Terminator is without a doubt the defining Sci-Fi action film of all time. though future films of the same genre may have been better, this one stands alone as the founder of the marriage between Science-Fiction and Action films.
The plot centers around the destruction of the world as we know it, due to computers becoming self-aware and destroying their makers: Humans. After a machine-induced nuclear holocaust, human survivors fight back against the machines, led by a man named John Connor. A computer-soldier called a "Terminator" is sent back in time by the machines, to kill the mother of John Connor, so he can never be born. The human resistance also sends one of their soldiers back in time, to protect the unborn child. Both soldiers are sent back to 1984, to battle over the fate of their future.
Terminator is known as one of the most iconic story lines of all time, and rightfully so. This is one of those classics that has to be watched by any movie fanatic. It is one of the defining films of the 80's and the Sci-Fi genre.
Taking this film simply as another sci-fi film, you may find it to be not much better than others. But the reason this movie deserves the "great movie" merit, is simply the concept behind it, a concept that has inspired many future science-fiction titles.
Great Film 9/10 stars