cricketbat Yes the clothing, music and special effects are a bit dated, but The Terminator is still a solid horror movie. James Cameron (pre-huge ego) does a great job of telling a unique science-fiction story in a way that is accessible to non-science-fiction fans. It's no wonder that this film put Arnold Schwarzenegger on the map.

NikkoFranco When you are barely seventeen and see this for the first time in an era without much tech as now, this film sealed my deal in being a lifelong Schwarzenegger fan. When a story is so original, you do not understand entirely what is going on, you can not blink and left in awe trying to grasp what this machine man robot means . The 80s is captured for eternal here, the big hairs, seedy discotheques, synthesizer and more. As this film is going at such fast rate throughout, one was wondering why the need to kill all Sarah Connor, thus only when Michael Biehn , savior of Sarah played by the unassuming Linda Hamilton came into play was it clearer. The effects , those days standards, were so good, a lot of people were screaming at the theatre thinking that the Terminator gets out of the screen onto us. Arnold Schwarzenegger is convincing and I can not imagine what happened if Dolph Lundgren got the role instead as it was rumored that he was offered the role as well. From the T1000 franchise, this is the story and special effects pacesetter of many action films to come.

hoperain-388-280369 It's made in 1984 and has incredible effect and so much powerful imagination.

thisanant It is the best movie i have seen from the eighties . the chemistry between the two leads is palatable , you can almost taste it . it is , I believe , the original sci-fi with time travel and cyborgs . the best James Cameron movie , other than AVATAR 7 that is .