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May 05, 2018richmole rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
3rd time around for this one. It's been years since I last saw it. The movie's power is undiminished by time, fad-and-fashion and CGI. Howcum? What makes this modestly budgeted oldie (30+ years now,) STILL the hold-your-breath grabber it was first time around? The story. For that we have relative newcomers, Director James Cameron and his producer Gale Hurd to thank. Cameron's always put story first (and effects, in a secondary support role.) Some of the writing is simply superb, allowing viewers to bond with these two desperate humans, fleeing for their lives--and the lives of the unborn child who will hold the key to the future. As director, Cameron gets the most from Arnold Swartzenegger, Michael Biehn in the first of many pairings, and Linda Hamilton in her fourth movie role, here. Like Biehn, she's still very active, as are Cameron and Hurd (as, among other things, producer of the enormously successful and influential, The Walking Dead.) The effects: still fabulous after all these decades--a melange of, among other things, believable Stop Motion and superb miniature work all made even more convincing by great work by relative newcomer--and now veteran--Mark Goldblatt, as editor. What a script! What a team! What a classic.