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- Androids and RobotsMan Versus MachineManhuntOn the RunFuture DystopiaTechnology Gone AwryChases and RacesDanger more...
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- ActionSci-FiHollywood Tone
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- 20th Century80s
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- Los Angeles
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- Boys' Night
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- Voice Over
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- Brief NudityViolent Content
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The Terminator, 1984
English, Spanish
UK, USA
Profile of The Terminator
The Terminator can be described as bleak, exciting, and rough. The plot revolves around man versus machine, a manhunt, and androids and robots. The main genres are action and sci-fi. In terms of style, The Terminator has a Hollywood tone and includes a voice over. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It is located in Los Angeles. The Terminator takes place in the 1980s. Visually, it involves special effects. The movie has received attention for being a modern classic, a masterpiece, and a blockbuster. The Terminator is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves brief nudity and violent content.
Summary of The Terminator
James Cameron's THE TERMINATOR is one of the tightest, tensest sci-fi films ever made and a landmark in the genre. In the year 2029, battles rage between the superintelligent machines that rule the world and the last vestiges of humanity. In late-20th-century Los Angeles, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) suddenly finds herself stalked by an unstoppable killing machine--a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent from the future to kill her and her unconceived son, John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance. Sarah can rely only on Reese (Michael Biehn), a soldier sent from the future to protect her from the seemingly indestructible Terminator and save humanity. This low-budget masterpiece was the breakthrough film for director Cameron, who weds special effects, thrills, and understated romance to create one of the finest action films of the 1980s, which spawned many imitations but few equals. Science fiction author Harlan Ellison sued over the film's similarities to his own works, especially the OUTER LIMITS episode "Demon with a Glass Hand," and won acknowledgement in the film's credits. Schwarzenegger will forever be known as the relentless Terminator, a heartless killing machine who returns (in a kinder, gentler form) in 1991's TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 26 October 1984 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
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as The Terminator
as Kyle Reese
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Critics Reviews
TV Guide
An amazingly effective picture that becomes doubly impressive when one considers its small budget.
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
An efficient, cold-blooded sci-fi splatter movie that never makes the mistake of forgetting that on some level it is deeply ridiculous.
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- by: Jay Scott
Users Reviews
Probably my favorite movie of all time. The Terminator delivers on all levels. Interesting plot, awesome action scenes, quotable quotes, gritty, realistic, perfectly paced, amazing action and a terrific ending.
- 01.September.2010
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- by: Michael
- Michael rated this movie
10/10Must See
This is the film that helped earn James Cameron's spot as one of the best action movie directors of all time. It also placed Arnold Schwarzenegger into the spot as one of the greatest actors of all time. This time around Arnold...
- 24.June.2009
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- by: ZGDK
- ZGDK rated this movie
0/10
