The Terminator

What can I really say that hasn't been said a thousand times before? The Terminator is one of the most iconic movies of the last few decades.

Obviously, you've got Arnold playing the villain, which he does well, but the real lead roles are Michael Biehn and whatever Sarah Connor's actress' name is; I think it's Linda Hamilton. She might as well just change her name, because that's who everyone thinks of when they see her face.

Anyway, the plot is about a post-apocalyptic world divided into two factions man and machine. Man made the machines, machines learned to think, and we got bombed into oblivion. After the collapse of all governments and societies, one dude by the name of John Connor rallied humanity to battle the machines and their brain-computer Skynet and took back the world. That happens after the movie. What we get is Skynet sending back one of its elite troops (a robot who appears human) to kill John's mother before she conceived him. John gets wind of this plot, somehow, and sends back one of his closest companions to protect Sarah.

I laugh at the fact that, had Skynet not sent back a Terminator, Kyle wouldn't have arrived and -SPOILERS (Ha! Like you haven't seen the movie) - gotten Sarah pregnant with John.

See, what follows is a lot of chase scenes, blood, killing, and techno-political discussion. It's fun, and despite the movie's cheesiness, it's still a fantastic film. I mean, it's not T2, which is by far better, and dare I say one of the greatest movies in American cinema? As you can see, this review's short...there's just not a lot I can criticize, and a lot to praise, so just go out and buy this movie. It's definitely worth purchasing.