I won't be back

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2014)

I stayed away from this for thirty years but finally got fed up of all the people absolutely amazed I hadn't seen it and recommending it to me before it's too late. Well, it's fairly exciting enough as a low budget sci fi chiller, but does everyone really have to enjoy the same things? And judging by the music and special effects, in this case it's too late. Even if I'd seen it at an impressionable age such macho machinations were never my bag.
An impregnable robot sent from 45 years in the way distant future to kill a woman who will have an important son, and another man from the future is sent to save herand unwittingly impregnate her too. Busy! The futuristic '80's music is as cheap, backward and laughable as Blade Runner's is, they also share a vision of an extremely grim future. The present is merely cars girls guns and mayhem after all. Schwarzenegger as the Terminator robot acted totally believably, and when reduced to the hilarious internal metal frame he acted with even more passion; but Harryhausen's stop motion skeletons in Jason & The Argonauts were as kittens in comparison. Made at the butt-end of the olde analogue age I bet director Cameron wished he could have done a Lucas-like Revision to it and rebooted it with cgi cartoonery for the special effects instead. However, the over the top violence was expected and delivered - the utter childishness of the multiple random killings only proves yet again to me how valueless some human film makers think other human beings lives are and therefore the contempt they must hold the audiences in. But I do realise you don't have to be in the Army to fight in the War, and most importantly this is mild stuff compared to nowadays. The film was all I expected, take away the viciousness and you might have a very good little b film.