Terminator
The thing that won’t die, in the nightmare that won’t end.
This surely has to be one of James Cameron’s greatest films. Okay so the actual workings of the plot leaves you not so much thinking but more complaining about how things don’t work but if you ignore the story line and go for the either the acting (ignoring Arnie) or the idea behind the story then you have a great move. Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton work extremely well together on the screen and Arnie gets to be himself which is always useful considering his acting abilities or lack there of!
Warning… plot spoilers…
So John Connor, Sarah’s son (Hamilton) sends his best soldier (Biehn) back in time to project his mother from the Terminator (Arnie) but while he’s there he falls for Sarah and they end up doing the dirty and she gets pregnant with John so in effect John didn’t only send his best soldier back but also his dad and between them both they defeat the Terminator and stop the impending war.
But…
If by defeating the Terminator they’ve stopped the war then there would be no need to send daddy back to protect mummy so mummy wouldn’t get pregnant so John wouldn’t be born and wouldn’t be able to send daddy back anyway but he was born so he must have sent daddy back and the only reason he’d do that is to protect mummy but mummy would only need protecting if her life was in danger which is was because the Terminator was after her but it was only after her because of the war which had already been stopped by defeating the terminator that wouldn’t have been sent back because there was no war.
Do you see the plot flaws?
All that said it’s still a class film and worth a watch.
2007-02-19 @ 19:37