It is a premise that could’ve been hokey and corny, but Arnold’s looming presence sells the magnitude of the situation, giving this larger-than-life figure a real flesh-and-blood demeanor that hides the character’s mechanical emptiness.
And in the years since, we have continued to follow Arnold with interest thanks to this role.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a silent-but-lethal opposition, one with a critical desire to kill or be killed when it comes to murdering Sarah Conner.
It is with this movie that we first heard the quote “I’ll be back.”