What is The Terminator?
{{italictitle}} '''''The Terminator''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[action movie|action]]-[[science fiction]] movie. It is set in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]] and stars [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], [[Michael Biehn]], and [[Linda Hamilton]]. This movie was directed by [[James Cameron]] and was released on October 26, 1984 in the United States by Orion Pictures. Its budget was $6.4 million and it grossed $78.3 million at the box office. It was followed by [[sequel]]s ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'', ''[[Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]]'', ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'', ''[[Terminator Genisys]]'' and ''[[Terminator: Dark Fate]]''. == Plot == In 1984 [[Los Angeles]], a [[cyborg]] assassin known as a Terminator arrives from 2029 and steals guns and clothes. Shortly afterwards, Kyle Reese, a human soldier, also arrives. He steals clothes from a homeless man and evades the police. The Terminator begins systematically killing women named Sarah Connor, whose addresses he finds in the telephone directory. He tracks the third Sarah Connor to a nightclub, but Kyle rescues her. The two steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car. As they hide in a parking lot, Kyle explains to Sarah that an artificial intelligence defense network, known as Skynet, will become self-aware in the near future and initiate a nuclear holocaust. Sarah's future son John will rally the survivors and lead a resistance movement against Skynet and its army of machines. With the Resistance on the verge of victory, Skynet sent a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born, to prevent the formation of the Resistance. The Terminator is an efficient killing machine with a powerful metal [[endoskeleton]] and an external layer of living tissue that makes him appear human. Kyle and Sarah are apprehended by the police after another encounter with the Terminator. Criminal psychologist Dr. Silberman concludes that Kyle is paranoid and delusional. The Terminator repairs his body and attacks the police sta