All the Sarah Connors in town are being executed in the order they appear in the telephone directory. Thankfully, our hero is number three in the list and so realizes what is going on.

The Terminator (Arnold Schwartzenneger) hunts her down like a rabbit but fails to get her. The Terminator comes from the future, as does another, human, time traveler and good guy who befriends Sarah and then fathers a child with her. The Terminator is eventually killed after moments of animatronic/ stop-frame animation mayhem.

Two

Sarah is now in an asylum after giving birth to a son, John. Arnold Schwartzenegger plays the Terminator again, but this time he is the good guy - his opponent in this movie is a super advanced Terminator whose task now is to kill John Connor, who in the future becomes the leader of the rebellion.

This time the special effects are more expensive, including moments of liquid metal rebuilding which were impressive in their day.

Both Terminators get destroyed in the end, and the guy who invented the Terminator technology destroys his work (and so they should have disappeared there and then, if Back to the Future time paradox theory was correct).

"Perhaps I shouldn't be telling you this, my dear, but I have been to a sex shop recently and bought my very own Terminator vibrator. It is really quite fine and I am completely satisfied with my purchase."

"OK OK, tell me this then. In the second one the reason they say The Terminator can't create a gun is that it is a complex machine with oils and moving parts, but they can do themselves? Don't they know how complicated human joints are? It made me so sick I wrote a letter. Damn hell fire."

"Arnold, put some clothes on, my dear, you'll catch your death."

"And the biggest bitch slap in this movie goes to.... Sarah Connor for being so completely outrageously mad in the second movie. Girlfriend, sort yourself out."

"I would still like to see Arnold Schwartzennegger sing."

"My, Mr Terminator, Sir, where did you get that nice hair cut? Do they do a wig in that?"

"I still say the Rock could take him."

"Mr Terminator - you shot that nice gun shop owner! How ironic that you did it with his own gun! Is this a metaphor for the whore gun industry, selling arms to whomsoever needs them and then getting their butt kicked when those whom bought the stuff turn nasty? Yes I thought so. A delight from start to finish."

"Whilst murders pepper this movie, it does not detract from the almost cerebral consequentialness of the underlying metaphor."

The first movie is much better than the second as it is darker, a little less polished.

The sheer terror of being the possible next victim of a serial killing got my juices boiling so! The sheer horror of knowing that you cannot stop such a bully boy bandit, who is hunting you down like a Moose, coming, as he indubitably does, from another time period where this sort of thing is so common it does not even make the evening news. Tis all scream-worthy in a 1950's B-movie type way - BE WARNED!.

It is a role made for dear Mr Schwartzenegger, a man who has become part of our culture in a way only big muscley men can do. Whether Mr Rock could take Mr Terminator is a debate upon which one can ramble on about for hours on end, to be stopped only by closing time; but even then one feels that the debate could continue outside on the pavement until opening time the next day!

The second movie has very good special effects and looks much more expensive, although one doubts they would have bothered with it had the first one not scared the willies out of us so.

I'll be back, if that's OK with you.

This is a dog movie - The Terminator is fantastically loyal without actually thinking about anything in particular.

Cats will think the Terminator is dumb and know from experience that body builder owners always forget to feed them and so may watch the movie tail in the air with bottom clearly visible.

Pet mice could start to take up body building after watching this movie in a futile, if not a little sweet, attempt to be like their hero.