The Terminator

Dude the reason James Cameron did aliens is bc some exec was like “he’d make a great alien movie! Wait who’s Ridley Scott?” I mean he did but still Terminator is a just ok action movie imo  This movie kinda has like no characters. Sarah and Reese are kinda boring and non people imo. Sarah especially she’s like just not a real person. She has 0 backstory and 0 character development. Ok well like there’s the tiniest tiniest amount but like it’s really not anything really. Also reese and Sara’s dynamic is pretty lame like a lot of exposition that comes out of them feels incredibly forced and like ok why did they do that? I won't spoil it but like ok do I care? Not rlly but it just doesn’t make any sense. It comes way outta left field and doesn’t do anything like at all for the plot. Theyre serviceable for an action film I suppose just not anything more than action figures to help getting from set piece a to set piece b. But here’s the thing, when this movie is dialed it is DIALED. All the action scenes are incredible really really great car chases like REALLY FUCKING GOOD! They’re so well directed and fun I couldn’t get over them. My fav is prob the first freeway one. So so cool. And like ion know I really enjoyed all of the set pieces a lot. The ending set piece was great I love how the terminator looks, the start was great, that truck and last car chase scene was nutso, and even that short police station set piece was cool!  I think a lot of that kinda comes down to Arnold Schwarzenegger. I know he’s like iconic and this role has been like done to death w him but I mean he is one incredible stalker. So spooky in stature and small movements, and like he’s just so cold. Like he gets the whole unstoppable force combined with immovable object thing across really well. He’s really great!  Yk what this might be the greatest movie that has 0 characters honestly. It really all comes down to James Cameron he just gets it when it comes to action.  This one feels like playing re2 with Mr x in your ass