This entertaining but convoluted science fiction thriller is a rip-off of the enormously popular blockbuster Schwarzenegger movie out around the the same time. This dealis with a robot assassin who looks and acts exactly like a human being in every way, except that somewhere in his human like flesh, there is a program inside for him to kill whoever his programmers assigned him to go after. Robert Conrad and Karen Austin team together as a federal agent and a college professor (who used to be an agent but resigned when the robots play by Richard Young was created), and of course romance strikes up as they try to stop Young from achieving his goal reaching target Robert Webber.
Along the way, the robotic young manages to find romance (yes, apparently robots can make love!), Leading to a very silly scene where Jessica Nelson as his pickup makes a hysterical observation, comparing him to the other guys she's dated. This is surprisingly violent for a television movie, featuring quite a few shootings and explosions, and definitely one that must have had a mature audience warning. The script is silly but the pacing makes up for that, never letting its audience breathe for a moment. Those who consider "The Terminator" a classic will find this basically an insignificant rip-off, but if you just go in looking at the movie for its entertainment value, you won't be disappointed, although chances are you won't remember it long afterwards.
Along the way, the robotic young manages to find romance (yes, apparently robots can make love!), Leading to a very silly scene where Jessica Nelson as his pickup makes a hysterical observation, comparing him to the other guys she's dated. This is surprisingly violent for a television movie, featuring quite a few shootings and explosions, and definitely one that must have had a mature audience warning. The script is silly but the pacing makes up for that, never letting its audience breathe for a moment. Those who consider "The Terminator" a classic will find this basically an insignificant rip-off, but if you just go in looking at the movie for its entertainment value, you won't be disappointed, although chances are you won't remember it long afterwards.