The Terminator DVD, 1984

James Cameron's much-imitated sci-fi classic. Schwarzenegger is the relentless killing machine from a future dominated by machines who is sent back in time to kill the mother (Linda Hamilton) of the as-yet-unborn rebel leader John Connor. Meanwhile, the rebels also select an agent to travel back in time and stop the Terminator, thereby ensuring that events follow their pre-ordained course. Next to 'Blade Runner', this is one of the most innovative and striking sci-fi extravaganzas to ever hit the screens.

Rising rapidly in esteem and cult status everywhere and rightly so - you don't get the status endowed by a BFI Modern Classic Film book lightly you know - still the on... more >

Rising rapidly in esteem and cult status everywhere and rightly so - you don't get the status endowed by a BFI Modern Classic Film book lightly you know - still the only truly great film the current Governor of California OR director James Cameron is ever likely to make during our lifetime. Classic sci-fi with a head, tremendous pulsating plot mechanism, TECH NOIR nighclubs (oh James your debt to the greatest American crime genre was both inspired and seriously hip at the time) and an outstanding, pounding music score that still sends the hairs on the back of your neck up in salute in anticipation. All-round solid gold 80s cinema at it's stunning finest. < less

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Not simply a fabulous action movie for the popcorn crowd, but an academically respectable treatise for the high-tech era. more >

Not simply a fabulous action movie for the popcorn crowd, but an academically respectable treatise for the high-tech era. < less

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