The Terminator

The Terminator

Your future is in its hands.

Rating

4.0 (2)

Release Date

10/26/1984

Runtime

108 mins

Overview

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$6,400,000

Revenue

$78,371,200

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How It Feels

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A relentless cat-and-mouse thriller that pins an ordinary woman against an implacable killing machine, trapping you in a breathless race through neon-lit Los Angeles where survival means outwitting something that cannot be reasoned with or stopped.

Mood

TenseParanoidExhilaratingDefiant

Themes

SurvivalTechnologyPowerComing apart

Look

HandheldHigh-contrastNaturalistic

Heads up

Graphic violence

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