Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Smoreni Zmaj Computers that control nuclear weapons become self-conscious and start a nuclear war to exterminate the human race. After the war, survivors, led by John Connor, are in the war against machines and they are winning. Machines send cyborg to the past to kill Connor's mother and prevent his birth. Humans send Kyle Reese to save her. The rest is history.From today's perspective, this action SF is still good, but largely out-dated. Subjectively, I would rate it six out of ten. But when you take into account that it was filmed in 1984, that it had a serious impact on the genre and career of several actors, as well as anti-nuclear message and warning that technology develops faster than our ability to manage it safely, the rating must go up.8/10I would like to add another observation. If the film was exactly the same as it is, with the only difference that Terminator was not a robot but a ghost or a demon or something like that, it would probably be classified as a horror. This movie has all the elements of '80s horrors, and the only difference that distinguishes it from them is the quasi-scientific premise.

jodyfranz It's not perfect don't get me wrong. Someone who watches it now who only knows the smooth (2018) CGI affects will definitely notice how dated and obvious some of the special effects are, like the bathroom scene with Arnie after a car accident (you know the scene for those who have seen it).But if you don't mind (and I don't as a child of the 70's) the special effects, the clothing and the music all sastisfy my nostalgia for all things 80's. So not only do I get my nostalgia fix I also get a really great story and LOTS of action.This movie will be a forever classic for me and I will rewatch it with reckless abandon!

awildrozza I really do like this movie and understand its love, but for me the themes and screenplay of this movie can't be fully realised with its budget, not saying it needed a huge budget but maybe 10 million would really bump the film into higher regard in my eyes

Torrin-McFinn77 I'd watched the second Terminator when I was 13 (almost 14) in the late 1990s and it wasn't until 2004 or so that I saw this one. But what a movie! This gives us the origins of Sarah Connor and her struggle against the machines. This has to be one of my favorite Arnie films; this and T2. It's also one of my favorite James Cameron sci-fi films, along with Aliens and Avatar. Though Arnie is portrayed as a villain in this one, he literally steals the show. And the special effects by Stan Winston are good too. I'll keep this one and the second one as my favorite Arnie Terminator films and avoid the others.