Being a fan of all things Terminator, I had to see this movie which is billed as a digital comic. Digital Comic, what do you think of? I think of digitally created characters running around on the screen. No real actors, just everything done by computer animation of some sort, like a cartoon, or a video game. I was so wrong.

Terminator: Hunters and Killers is a scene by scene reading of a comic book. Yes, just a comic book, with pictures on the screen like you're reading through a comic book, sure, there is voice over reading what the characters are saying in the comic book frame, but you can read what they are saying anyway. It's kind of pathetic really.

So here you have three comic book stories. One takes place after Terminator 3, the Rise of the Machines. You've got a few Russian fighters leading the resistance against the Terminators, and their quest to get to the one remaining Russian Nuclear submarine they have been hiding. If our comic book heroes can get to the sub, and have the launch codes for the missiles, they can launch on SKYNET and on MIR (the Russian computer system that has been made self aware by Skynet) and thereby win the war against the machines. Throw in a new class of terminator, some character conflicts and distrust, and no resolution to the story, and you've got your comic book video.
Great, yeah, just what I was hoping for. A comic book with no ending, which isn't to be continued. It would be like watching the original Terminator and it ending after the T-800 shoots up the police station. What happens after? Who wins? You'll never know.

This is the main movie they give us on Terminator: Hunters and Killers. There are also two other short comic stories on the disk which are actually better stories, but pretty short. One tells the story of another fighter who went back in time to protect Sarah Conner and be sure she was born. He ends up coming across another Terminator sent back in time at the same point in 1984 as the original was set, who is pursuing another Sarah Conner. It's a far more interesting story, and he's got a monkey as a side kick. Can't beat that.

The last story pretty much fits in nowhere in the Terminator story. It's just a male and female couple terminators who show up in death valley and end up coming across a gang of devil worshipping bikers who have been tracked down by someone paid to get a girl out of the gang. Of course just about everyone ends up dead, and the Terminators wander away.

Terminator: Hunters and Killers had a very long wait for availability on Netflix, I can only guess that every Terminator fan who finally received the DVD was greatly disappointed.
Fans of The Terminator should run as far away from this as they would a real terminator who was trying to kill them.

Recommended:
No

Viewing Format: DVD
Video Occasion: None of the Above
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older