
“Los Angeles, 2029 AD. The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades…”
So begins The Terminator, the 1984 sci-fi action flick whose titular character proved the defining role of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hollywood career. Now the actor, former professional bodybuilder, and two-term governor of California is back with a new directive—in a reality not that incredibly far off from the one in which he played a time-traveling cyborg assassin.