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Show by Kick Brough " l ' ....;.' .. - - . r - .i,.,,,., I iirT i . " " " J - ii ' sr "rt U t ' i 5- , J Arnold Schwarzenegger as the terminator threatening Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in "The Terminator." 'Drummer Girl7 thuds along, Terminator' is living end k A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only , V2 The Little Drummer Girl "The Little Drummer Girl" is a long movie, and yet feels like it's skimming through John Le Carre's controversial novel. Diane Keaton plays Charlie, an American actress in London who has sympathies with the Palestinian cause. But she's lured into a romance with a Mediterranean character who later reveals himself to be an Israeli agent. During a subtle brainwashing session, the chief of the Israeli agents (Klaus Kinski) persuades her to be an agent to infiltrate the Palestinian troups to flush out a mysterious guerrilla leader. The rationale for this startling change of her allegiance is that Charlie is "hollow." Her emotional and political commitments are superficial. (She's an actress, remember.) Given this, she forsakes her pro-Palestine pro-Palestine ideas for her Israeli lover and the chance to play a monumental "role." Keaton is believably vulnerable, but she doesn't have the peculiar empathetic quality that could make you believe that Charlie bounces around to nearly every side in the Middle East conflict in 2Vz hours. (Vanessa Redgrave could do it, but ironically, she might be the real inspiration for the story.) The book, and now this movie, have stirred arguments because it may be the first major dramatic work to sympathize with the Palestinians. But the long multi-charactered multi-charactered story doesn't involve you with any of the characters, doesn't shed any light on the conflict, and comes to the moral you'd expect about the "dirty little game" of spying. V2 Terminator "Terminator" casts Arnold Schwarzenegger as a villain, cheerfully acknowledging his limitations as an actor, and using them with tongue in cheek. In modern-day Los Angeles, two visitors are zapped back from the future, where man fights machine. Their goal is to find the woman (Linda Hamilton) who will give birth to a 21st-century George Washington who will defeat the machines. One visitor is the Terminator machine (big Arnold) out to kill her; the other a human (Michael Biehn) sent to save her. Schwarzenegger crunches, pummels and shreds anything in his way, and flashes a snarl that can lay whole wheat fields to waste. To hot wire a car, he rips off the steering wheel panel like it was cardboard, and gives the engine a zap with his finger. Occasionally, the jokey script shows that he fits in all too well in 1984. At a gun shop, the proprietor readily sells him an Uzi submachine gun, adding, "This is perfect; for home defense." Biehn and Hamilton are more straight-faced. Paul Winfield is quickly blasted away as an ineffectual cop. (The killings are grim, but not explicitly. ) "Terminator" is junky fun, hampered by a reliance on too many chases and an ending like the "Friday the 13th" movies, that piles on climaxes. Now showing At the Holiday Village Cinemas: Firstborn No Small Affair (not yet rated) Oh God, You Devil! (Not yet rated) 'Revenge of the Nerds |