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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

T2 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

James Cameron

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick ...

7.5

129,347

Sci-Fi. Action In the year 2029, a computer called Skynet is fighting against a human resistance, after having nearly destroyed the rest of humanity in 1997. Skynet has found a way to send some of it's warriors, called Terminators, back in time. This is the story of the Terminator sent to kill the resistance leader in 1995, while he is still a child. The resistance sends a reprogrammed Terminator back to 1995 to protect the young man. The question is, ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Cameron has made a swift, exciting special-effects epic that thoroughly justifies its vast expense and greatly improves upon the first film's potent but rudimentary visual style"
		Variety	"As with Aliens, director James Cameron has again taken a firstrate science fiction film and crafted a sequel that’s in some ways more impressive"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"It's a tank of a movie, big, powerful and hard to resist"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"['Terminator 2'] cleverly combines the most successful elements of its predecessor with a number of new twists"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a really exciting, well-made sci-fi picture (...) T2 is still a very stylish film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The key element in any action picture, I think, is a good villain. 'Terminator 2' has one, along with an intriguing hero and fierce heroine (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Chuck Bowen Slant	"[An] astonishing work of kinetic force. Cameron's a master of the collision of bodies against their settings (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"The movie’s true power stems from his ability to tap into fears not just of mechanization and dehumanization (...) but also of human obsession and transformation."
		Kim Newman Empire	"Top-flight kick-ass entertainment"
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The film is much the same as its predecessor, except that the effects are more spectacular (...) The story sags midway, but the first hour and last 30 minutes display an enjoyably relentless bravura"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It's Cameron's show; he's the reigning king of movie pow, with dark wit and a poet's eye for mayhem (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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