`Terminator' By Neil Myers Some movies take a futuristic theme and make it believable, engrossing and entertaining. "The Terminator, a current box office smash, " makes a valiant attempt but gets zapped by its own high-tech show. "The Terminator" stars Ar nold Schwarzenegger of Mr. Universe fame as an android from the future, where machines fight for control of the earth against a dedicated band of human rebels. Schwarzenegger has a single minded obsession--to kill Sarah Connor, an unobtrusinve young Los Angeles waitress. Sent from the future to pro tect Connor is Kiel Reese, a young hero-type with average hero-type ambitions: to save the future by saving the soon-to-be mother of his reble group's leaden John Connor. ID-TOWN PI-ZZA Call for lti t_ ir i e 9 r 5 y prices Mid-town Plaza 450 E. Main St., Middletown, Pa. SALADS AU You Can Eat 1.99 Large 1.99 Small 1.29 Chef Salad 2.25 Sm. 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A lot more could be done to increase the film's plausibility by delving into Kiel Reese's character. As it is, Reese's sup posed life-long love for Sarah comes as a surprise, and the one fleeting love scene seems in congruous given Reese's card board nature. Sarah, meanwhile, at least manages to be incredulous at her selection as the victim of a murderer from the future. We see a little more of her than Reese, and her growth from an anonymous boopsie to the mother of humanity can almost be swallowed, albeit with a large dose of sugar. Schwarzenegger's character, on the other hand, has no dimension, which just about suits his acting abilities. MEDIUM LARGE SICILIAN 4.75 7.00 5.50 8.00 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 7.00 0.50 8.75 11.25 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 5.75 8.25 $4.25 4.75 5.25 5.25 5.25 5.25 5.25 5.25 5.25 6.00 7.75 5.25 5.25 5.25 PLATTERS Meatball.. Sausage... Meatball & Sausage... Green Pepper & Mushroom 3.00 Meatball, Sausage, Green Pepper & Mushroom 3.75 November 29, 1984 The Capitol Times Page 11 Unlike the shark in "Jaws," which takes on an almost demonic invulnerability, Schwarzenegger's Terminator takes on an almost comic per sistence. Despite Connor's and Reese's attempts to blow it up, burn it, shoot it with automatic weapons and run it into a wall, the robot lives on, defying the laws of physics. Moreover, there's no human aspect to the character--a key ingredient in successful "non-human" science-fiction personages like "Star Trek's" Mr. Spock or Hal the computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey." As he is, the Terminator would make a bad stand-in for Wile E. Coyote and offers even less as a dramatic character. Throughout the movie I found myself wanting to believe the premise that a future socie ty would include a battle bet ween men and machines, but I kept searching for more background and detail. 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