The Terminator

Movie • 1984

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    In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

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The Guardian

Each of his pecs is the size of a bull’s flank. It is a tremendous black-comic performance and, without Schwarzenegger, the movie is of course unthinkable.

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IMDb

'The Terminator' is a classic good versus evil struggle, with little in the way of greys clouding the issue.

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The Hollywood Reporter

Arnold Schwarzenegger was born to play The Terminator. In this nail-biting Orion sci-fi adventure...the beefy Conan star, cast in his first villainous role, dishes out destruction with a fiendish relish certain to neutralize box-office competition.

hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/terminator-review-movie-1984-743708/

mxdwn Movies

The strangest realization you’ll have re-watching James Cameron’s The Terminator is that it’s a low-budget film.

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Roger Ebert

"The film’s intimacy...turned out to be a wellspring of storytelling strength."

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AllMovie

As relentless as the taciturn titular villain, The Terminator (1984) established James Cameron as a master of action, special effects, and quasi-mythic narrative intrigue.

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Watch This Film

The Terminator is a classic of the sci-fi/action/thriller genre, introducing us to James Cameron’s world of cyborgs, artificial intelligence, time travel, and Sarah Connor in satisfyingly original fashion.

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IMDb

This scene established Sarah as one who is willing to try to take matters into her hands to stop a nuclear war and a horrible future.

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