In the year 2029, a computer called Skynet is fighting against a human resistance, after having nearly destroyed the rest of humanity in 1997. Skynet has found a way to send some of it’s warriors, called Terminators, back in time. This is the story of the Terminator sent to kill the resistance leader’s mother in 1984, before she gives birth. The resistance sends a warrior named Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect the young woman. The question is, can Sarah Connor survive long enough to have her child so that history remains on tracK?

The Terminator (1984)
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  • Taglines:In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created 'THE TERMINATOR' » The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end. »
  • Runtime:107 minutes
  • Director: James Cameron
  • Countries:UK, USA
  • Actors:
    Terminator
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Kyle Reese
    Michael Biehn
    Sarah Connor
    Linda Hamilton
    Lieutenant Ed Traxler
    Paul Winfield
    Detective Hal Vukovich
    Lance Henriksen
    Matt Buchanan
    Rick Rossovich
    Ginger Ventura
    Bess Motta
    Dr. Peter Silberman
    Earl Boen
    Pawn Shop Clerk
    Dick Miller
    Nancy
    Shawn Schepps
  • Genres:Action, Sci-Fi
  • Producers:
    John Daly
    executive producer  
    Derek Gibson
    executive producer  
    Gale Anne Hurd
    producer  
  • Plots: A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in years to come. Sarah has only one protector - Kyle Reese - also sent from the future. The Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence and strength to find Sarah, but is there any way to stop the seemingly indestructible cyborg ? Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
The Terminator
  • User's comment:It's about transformation by catalyst-7

    I just saw a horrifying, touching, very good movie again; it's The Terminator. Now to talk of it as great film, to compare it with American Beauty might seem idiotic--it's an almost unrelentingly dark, violent, frightening action movie, after all--but strip away the relentless action, strip away the technophobia, strip away the blatant dislike of cops and modern youth, strip away the poignant love story and, at its core, it's about an immature, essentially mindless girl becoming a strong, determined woman. That's a theme more movies should have if we want girls to have strong role models.

    In the course of a few hours during which Sarah Connor realises that she is running for her life from a soul-less machine in human flesh that is implacably and violently determined to kill her, she transforms from a girl who can't balance her cheque book to a woman who can order a wounded, beaten man to "get on your feet, soldier." She is clear-headed, not panicky, focused in crisis and incredibly courageous. And it's not that she has lost her essential femaleness but that she's grown up.

    It's relentless, heartless violence appals and fascinates me. It's gritty depiction of our society as a prelude to an even more horrific one in 2023 darkens my heart. It's quickly developing love story touches me. Its humor makes the dark places in me smile. But most of all I am touched and fascinated by Sarah's precipitous transformation. As a good life exercise, ask yourself this: Would you have the courage to do what she does?

    9.5 out of 10.


  • Quotes: Kyle Reese: The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him. Sarah Connor: Look... I am not stupid, you know. They cannot make things like that yet. Kyle Reese: Not yet. Not for about 40 years.
  • Also known as: Terminator (Argentina), Terminator (Bulgaria - imdb display title, Bulgarian title), Terminator (Croatia - video title), Terminator (Denmark - imdb display title), Terminator (France), Terminator (Italy), Terminator (Japan - English title), Terminator (Mexico), Terminator (Peru), Terminator (Poland - imdb display title), Terminator (Serbia), Terminator (Spain), Terminator (Sweden - imdb display title), Terminator (USA - trailer title), Terminator (Uruguay), Терминатор (Russia), Dödsängeln (Sweden), De uitroeier (Netherlands - informal literal title), Der Terminator (West Germany), El ejecutor (Peru - promotional title), El exteminador (Peru - TV title), Elektroniczny morderca (Poland - theatrical title), O Exterminador Implacável (Portugal), O Exterminador do Futuro (Brazil), O exolothreftis (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Terminátor (Czechoslovakia), Terminátor - A halálosztó (Hungary - imdb display title), Terminaator (Estonia), Terminaattori (Finland - TV title), Terminateur (Canada - French title), Terminator - Tuhoaja (Finland - imdb display title), Terminator - förstöraren (Finland - Swedish title), Terminatorul (Romania - imdb display title), Yokedici (Turkey - Turkish title),

  1. Ferrari Gift Says:
    October 20th, 2010 at 10:03 am

    James Cameron has made an excellent sci-fi movie, with a very original story, a good cast and good special effects for a movie out of 1984. He really keeps the suspense in it, it never goes away, because you never know when The Terminator will strike again. With the story I have to say that it really opens your mind for the future, because what happens in that future, COULD happen in real life(So watch out for every machine in your house, you never know). Did you know that this movie had a budget for only 6$ million. James Cameron really showed me what you can do with a small budget like that, he made one of the scariest movies and one of the best sci-fi movies ever

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