Truly Dreadful Film

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

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

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Nothing to add to the positive reviews. However, during my early attempts to write screenplays, this was a film I played on repeat (often in the background) as one to study. I believe it is worth the same exploration for any brewing screenwriter.

The first Terminator could almost be like a horror movie of sorts, this unstoppable and relentless robotic killer is after a young woman.. it also has a darker mood than any of the sequels. And it works to it's advantage. The debate between this and T2 will probably rage on after the Nuclear holocaust, but this was first and it was/is awesome!

The sequel to The Terminator was brilliant, don't get me wrong, but I still think the original movie was slightly better. Both were great movies, yet different in their own ways. The Terminator felt like it had a more darker tone to it, and that's something I liked compared to the sequel. What I liked about The Terminator was the plot - very interesting to follow especially when Sarah first hears about her unborn son. Either way, I think this movie is a great set-up for what is to come afterwards. Arnold Schwarzenegger was great in this movie, and it's rare to see that he doesn't play the hero for a change; in fact, he was actually very scary as the "Terminator". I consider it one of his best movies out there.

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.