Terminator movies ranked from best to worst

by ivo-cobra8 | created - 19 Jan 2019 | updated - 12 Nov 2022 | Public

My ranking of "The Terminator" movies. I grew up watch Terminator 1 and 2 they are both classic movies. I am a big fan of The Terminator (1984).

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1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

75 Metascore

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

Votes: 1,174,943 | Gross: $204.84M

My Number 1 Favorite T2: Judgment Day - There is the reason why is one of the greatest action sci-fi films of all time. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is James Cameron's - Masterpiece! The story, the action, sci-fi, judgment day and all that. T-1000 emerges as a shiny, featureless, liquid metal figure. Its features become more pronounced and its colors return to normal, returning to the form of the unharmed pseudo-cop is awesome. It shows what his character can do. I love the hospital scenes mostly at night, the Cyberdyne building action sequences and of course steel mill action sequences are perfect for this film. Terminator fires a M134 Minigun with Chainsaw grip at the police cars below, avoiding the humans. I love the mall scene in which both the two terminators appear in front of John Connor (Edward Furlong) and The Terminator protects John Connor from T-1000 with his Winchester 1887 in his hand. The T-1000 fires his Beretta 92FS. Robert Patrick does an excellent job of not flinching in the film and thoroughly convinces the viewers that he is an emotionless killer and not some wimpy actor who's touching a gun for the first time. The odd thing is that, when fired, his pistol sounds like it's silenced, even though it's obviously not, but bad-ass scene. Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is sexy and a bad-ass I had a crush on her for years as a teen. I would love to have her as my girlfriend. I love her to death. Arnold kicks ass. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick did there best acting performances ever, those actors who played there characters are beloved till this days!! I love twin brothers Don Stanton and Dan Stanton in this movie both of actors appeared in here one as Lewis the Guard the other as Lewis the T-1000 who kills Lewis they were for real no CGI, except special effects for T-1000 knife. American rock band Guns N' Roses wrote a single for this movie "You Could Be Mine" I love the song I have Guns N' Roses CD at home. The movie is a perfect action film my number 1 favorite action film of all time I reviewed the film both of Terminator reviews are on my channel and on the first site on top of the reviews. I love Rambo: First Blood Part II because James Cameron wrote the script with Stallone for the action sequences, the action sequences he for this movie with helicopter T-1000 chasing SWAT van on the road. Carolco Pictures produced both of the films. I love Aliens (1986) another James Cameron's Masterpiece of all time. "10 stars out of 10" I love this film to death.

2. The Terminator (1984)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield

Votes: 924,844 | Gross: $38.40M

My Second favorite action movie of all time. I am a fan of T1 because it is a horror film mixed with Sci-Fi and Action. I wish that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have played characters nowdays like that. The Terminator (1984) is not only a classic but is the god among science fiction horror films of all time. They don't make em like The Terminator 1984 was a brilliant film. Great leads: Arnold Schwarzenegger as the bad guy he acted the character like he was writen on his skin. Linda Hamilton sexy, hot, brilliant and scared waitres. Michael Beihn as Kyle Reese a protector from the future who is a good guy protects the girl. Saves people in Tech Noir and kicks The Terminator's ass!!! The Terminator is an 80's classic and of course James Cameron's first masterpiece film that he wrote and directed. (Not counting Piranha II: The Spawning.) The Terminator is my favorite in the franchise and my second favorite James Cameron film the only one. This movie is between Cobra and Aliens my all time favorite 80's action movie ever!!!! It was my first Terminator movie I saw in the year 1994 as a kid of the two Terminator movies before I saw the sequel. It was my favorite childhood film. Is an 80's action horror sci-fi slasher movie. Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn are perfect cast been chased by Schwarzenegger (The Terminator.) Terminator crashes with the car in the police station and kills almost 19 cops. This movie is brilliant, it has brilliant story, brilliant plot, excellent additional cast, brilliant director and writers, good special effects, it is mixed with sci-fi, action and horror. Before Sarah Connor was a tough bad-ass gun guerilla squad in the sequels, here she was a scared victim. A beautiful young woman who was a waitress at the diner and was just a human being leaving a teenage normal life in Los Angeles. Linda Hamilton is the only Sarah Connor no else can replace her. She is beautiful and smart and it is my favorite Linda Hamilton movie. She acts very realistic, brilliant and perfectly as the scared victim. Linda Hamilton is the best of the film. Michael Biehn is the only Sgt. Kyle Reese no one else is or can replace him. He is excellent and brilliant I still prefer Corporal Dwayne Hicks but Kyle Reese is my favorite character from Michael Biehn he is a perfect action hero. I love Kyle Reese because he doesn't kill any human being. My third favorite action film in the genre. I love this movie to death. 10 out of 10 I prefer this movie over Alien it deserves a 10.

3. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

R | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi

66 Metascore

A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes

Votes: 418,686 | Gross: $150.37M

My 3d favorite Terminator movie in the franchise. Underrated sequel and a good movie. I went to watch this movie in the cinema theater in 2003. It was the only Terminator film I saw in movie teather. It is rated - R and it is still a good movie. I like it. In my opinion it is equel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It was the most expensive movie ever made in the franchise. I went to watch this movie in the cinema theater I was 19 year old that time in 2003. I counted like over 70 mistakes in this movie. Like there is no Arnold for 17 minutes in the opening scene. He is like in some desert near Nevada with glass splitters but that can't be cause there was no glass around the desert when he was teleported. Arnold been in a striptease club fucking sucks!!!!! Arnold say's to the guy in the gas station "talk to the hand" and shows his hand laughable, there is this fucking song funky's which ruins the movie for me! Nick Stahl is a horrible as John Connor. In T2 he was smart brilliant kid he was stealing money with stolen cards from ATM machines. He never let him self get caught. In this movie he was a junkie drug addict who break in to animal shelter and get caught in a cage by an lady Kate Brewster (Claire Danes) disgrace!! The dialogues are horrendous. Arnold say "She'll be back" about T-X when he kicked her out of the wall. Arnold uses the same famous catch praise line form The Terminator only that he reverse the words so it fucking sucks!!!! The movie fucks up Judgment Day on the end of the movie. So suddenly from Terminator 2: Judgment Day: John, Sarah and T-800 postpone Judgment Day when in fact in James Cameron's movie they prevent Judgment Day from happening like wtf movie?! They killed off Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)! She died with leukemia in 1997 in this movie disgrace! It is like Alien 3 all over they killed off Corporal Dwayne Hicks (Michael Biehn) and Newt. They give a big fuck you to Linda Hamilton in this movie!!! in Skynet Edition Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Sarah Connor lived to year 2029 after they prevent Judgment Day. So this movie made a fucking mistake and fucked up the character. Jonathan Mostow fucked up the time line and he killed our bellowed Sarah Connor character! James Cameron did not want to return because Terminator 1 and 2 told perfectly fine the story's. Linda Hamilton refused to come back because her character was going to be killed off in the middle of the movie and there would be no time for the remorse for her. Another thing I heard was Nick Stahl is not a really nice person in real life. If you want his autogram for this movie you have to pay him $100.000 in cash what an asshole all people are not millionaires like him. Only action and T-X (Kristanna Loken) was the reason they keep going the movie. Kristanna Loken was good but the script sucked. If Arnold would have get a better script I think he would have done much better job, but it wasn't his fault. This movie was a disaster, but I like it no movie is perfect.I like this film not love like the first two films.

4. Terminator Salvation (2009)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

49 Metascore

In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?

Director: McG | Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood

Votes: 377,624 | Gross: $125.32M

My 4th favorite Terminator film. I think it is Criminally underrated film of all time! Does not deserve the hate!!! Terminator movie and the last movie I like of the Terminator movies. This movie get's the most hate because there is no Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie. I wrote a review 4 years ago with the title defending Terminator: Salvation and I got 9 vs 0 votes down. I had to remove that review because everyone hated it. Schwarzenegger fan boys hates this movie and they hate fans who likes this movie. I like this movie it is my third favorite movie of all 5 Terminator films the only one I enjoy. Director's Cut is rated R. This movie never fucks up Terminator 2 the Judgment Day or it is timeline it is a stand up alone movie. Schwarzenegger dose have on the end of the movie a cameo role in CGI. I know Schwarzenegger hate this movie i saw in his interview Terminator Genisys saying Salvation sucks because they made this movie without him, I disagree with Arnold 100%!!! The movie is just fine. Terminator franchise doesn't need you in every movie your just jealous because Hollywood did not invite you on this movie but they were respective to you. Christian Bale and Sam Worthington were not bad in their roles they are just fine. You have cold steel cyborgs, The T600 was awesome, there are some action and the future in the movie. You have Linda Hamilton's voice as Sarah Connor, the message John Connor plays. To me it is a worthy underrated and loyal true sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I know this will piss a lot of people off, it is my opinion I have enjoy Terminator Salvation more it is better to me than Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines!! Great direction by McG doesn't deserve the hate. 10 out of 10.

5. Terminator Genisys (2015)

PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

38 Metascore

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney

Votes: 292,649 | Gross: $89.76M

Fuck this motherfucking reboot. This STINKER movie completely EMBERESSING destroys The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day! They give a big fuck you to those two masterpiece movies. It is still not "the worst" Terminator movie that would be "Dark Fate". In this movie you would see a lot of Arnold. So Arnold was never a problem in my opinion in this movie. Lazy writters were the problems of this movie, cause they rebooted the first two masterpieces and made it in to a comedy and a joke! They give us a big fuck you! Mistakes and Problems: Now John Connor is T-3000? A liquid metal now or whatever. The Terminator now is called Pops not a Terminator or T-800 "POPS"! Now he is a father figure to Sarah and competes with Kyle for his "daughter's" approval!!!!! He awkwardly smiles a lot and repeats the same punch lines over and over as if we didn't get it the first 6 times. It is border line offensive to average human intelligence. Add to that ridiculous scenes like the helicopter chase towards the end which defies logic and I am ready to question anyone's intelligence who rates this movie as anything above a joke. Some people say "it was a fun summer flick, lighten up and just enjoy it for the action". What action? The crap CGI all over and helicopters from star wars? The T800s looked better in the originals. Arnold Schwarzenegger STINKS in this movie! This movie STINKS! I hate this fucking movie! I haven't seen this movie in 5 years and I never will. I don't have it in my Blu-ray collection because so horrible it was. CGI fucking sucked! T-101 was shot into a heart from a 12.year old school girl. Than in the tunnel T101 awakes him self's and than he is shot to death with a shotgun from Kyle his head get's blown off. In the original Terminator T-101 was shot in the eye from Kyle Reese and he crashed with a police car in the wall and he still lived. In this movie he was killed. T-1000 Asian cop was killed over 20.minutes. You have Bad Boys song in this movie which it doesn't fit in Terminator movie. It feels like this movie is a comedy. The new Sarah is awful, Emilia Clarke is the worst Sarah, I have ever seen in this movie. She sucks and she is so fucking ugly she is no Linda Hamilton!!!! Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese was the worst at acting in the movie he fucking sucks I hate the guy so much!!! Jai Courtney is no Michael Biehn. In the original movie you see Michael drop out naked on a street that effect was for real in this movie it was a fucking CGI effect not practical so it fucking sucks! I really thought this movie would be good it was PG-13 so I was mistaken! I hate this fucking movie I hate it, I hate it so much!!! James Cameron said it is a true sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day yea fuck you Jimmy Can fuck you!!!! Fuck this movie this peace a trash, shit movie belongs in to garbage!!! 1/10.

6. Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

R | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

Director: Tim Miller | Stars: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes

Votes: 193,315 | Gross: $62.25M

I hate Dark Fate! This movie fucking sucks!!!! This is the worst Terminator movie ever!!!!!! How is this garbage movie better than Terminator Salvation? I will never understand that! Dark Fate fucking EMBERESSING sucks! Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines has alot of problems but it is MILES way better than Dark Shit and Genishits! This movie is not a reboot of the first two Terminator movies, but it does copy the first two movies. SPOILERS: to the people who did not see the film yet don't read it. John Connor dies the first 5 - 8 mins. A woman name Grace is sent back to protect another girl Dani Ramos who by the finale is clear that she is the leader of a human resistence. WTF!!! She is now a leader instead of John Connor?! Arnold Schwarzenegger appears after 1 hr and 07 mins in the movie. He is missing for an whole hour. Terminator is now named Carl, he is not dressed in a leather coat and a biker suit! He is not a bad-ass like in T2: Judgment Day! He looks again like a washed up grandpa! In Genyshits Terminator was called Pops in this movie he is called Carl. If you are a Schwarzenegger fan you will be very dissapointed, he is not that much in the movie! The poster is lying to you and Arnold he is not T-800 Terminator we remember. This movie is not The Terminator, it is not scary, it is not a horror slasher like the first movie was and it is not inteligent! No Kyle Reese in this movie thank god. Edward Furlong is in CGI effect and he gets blown away by Schwarzenegger. Dani acts like Sarah Connor by the finale, but T-800 Schwarzenegger kills The Terminator REV-9 and he terminates him self! I would rather watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles we did not need 2 Terminator movies! This movie kills John Connor they wiped out John Connor like he never existed! They erased Judgment Day and made like T2 is unimportant movie! This shit movie at leats does not have any humor like Genishits had, but it still shit! No Arnold, No John Conner, No events after Judgment Day, it is DOG SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't like this movie, I hate it! This was 2 hrs of Jack Shit!!! Jack left the town and he fucked whole town!!!! The worst Terminator movie I have ever seen!!!!! Terminator Salvation is really a good movie and really Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is really underrated! Linda Hamilton did return as Sarah Connor, but she is completelly different than Sarah from T2. Linda Hamilton is an old grandma in this movie now. Linda Hamilton should have not return because she is old, not sexy and hot anymore, the actress should retire. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the star of The Terminator franchise not Linda Hamilton! He is not the main star in this movie!!!! Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes and Linda Hamilton are the stars in here not Arnold!!!!! This movie is a repeat from the first movie The Terminator (1984). I love The Terminator (1984) not only a classic but is the god among science fiction horror films of all time. They don't make em like The Terminator 1984 was a brilliant film. Great leads: Arnold Schwarzenegger as the bad guy he acted the character like he was writen on his skin. Linda Hamilton sexy, hot, brilliant and scared waitres. Michael Beihn as Kyle Reese a protector from the future who is a good guy protects the girl. Saves people in Tech Noir and kicks The Terminator's ass. This movie has no likable leads. Shitty cast Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes! Linda Hamilton old grandmother!!!!!!! Cameron considers the film a direct sequel to his films The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, while Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015) and the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) are described as occurring in alternate timelines. Fuck you Jimmy Can you suck! Fuck you! You made like The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are unimportant! This franchise did not need that much sequels after sequels.Should have died decades ago. 1/10 Fuck Terminator Dark Fate fuck this garbage!!!! Makes Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator: Salvation a masterpiece!!!!



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