Here we go again...
As a normal woman in the 80's, Sarah Connor is shocked when one day she hears on the news that two women with the same name as her were shot and killed on the same day. Fearing the same fate for her, she hides in a nightclub to seek refuge and avoid the same fate. She was right in doing that, as the Terminator killed the wrong two girls named Sarah Connor. The Terminator goes to her house and kills her roommate as well as her roommate's boyfriend and overhears the voicemail Sarah sent out and finds out where she's hiding. He then goes to the nightclub she's at and attempts to kill her. Luckily for her, a man with the last name Reese saves her life. On the run, Reese tells Sarah about the dystopian future that he comes from, and how the Terminator came after her because she gives birth to her son, who then destroys their plan. She learns that the Terminator is a cyborg who was created by Skynet, a robots-take-over-the-world type of organization. After many chases and many lives lost, Sarah and Reese finally take down the Terminator. Or so they thought. The Terminator loses his humanlike form and chases after them once more. After Reese was severely injured, Sarah finally takes him down by crushing him in a machine. I will firsthand say that I really liked this movie. I had no idea it was a story about traveling back to the future (sound familiar?), but I enjoyed it nevertheless. Some of my favorite scenes of all time from this movie were the scene where the Terminator destroys the whole police station, as well as all of the many, many chases sprinkled through the film. Even though I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, I caught more I didn't enjoy about it compared to last week's movie. The ending was really predictable, such as Sarah saving the day, and the fact that Reese was John's father. I kept going back and forth on whether or not Arnold becoming a cyborg at the end was a good choice, so I've decided that it was just mediocre and I would've liked him to stay as a human. Reese and Sarah's relationship was weird and also paradoxical, since she's old enough to be his dad and Reese is also her son's age in the future, it just doesn't make any sense. I really didn't like the fact that the Terminator could talk in other people's voices, I don't know why, but that's just a small little nitpick that kept coming to mind throughout the movie. I may have had much negative to say, I cannot stress how great all of the action scenes were. All I could think of when watching the police station scene was the Darth Vader scene in Rouge One, where a powerful person kind of just kills everything. Some 80's movies can be incredibly corny, this one still holds up (not from a technological standpoint, but everything else is still up to par in the 21st century). I really liked this movie and would recommend it to anyone seeking a good action movie. This one sure is a classic.
1 Comment
|
Archives
May 2019
Categories |