Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) - 7.4

Rating: 7/10 (30 October 2019)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) - 7.4
Act 1 - 7.2
Act 2 - 7.4
Act 3 - 7.6

Film released 7 years after original
Budget increased by 15x
Find out a second terminator was sent back to kill John as a child and the resistance also was able to send back a protector again just like the original
Effects on the film are already much better with the budget increase and more advanced tech
Arnold is the first one to come back and has an awesome opening scene at the bar
Introduced to the newer better terminator T-1000 who gets a great disguise as a cop
John is living with a foster family while Sarah has been in a psych hospital
Both terminators are after John one to protect and one to kill
Find out Sarah tried to blow up some computer factory and Sarah is a jacked badass now compared to a helpless character in the last film
Sarah is very smart and uses her ingenuity to outsmart the doctor to get what she wants
Company is backwards engineering the arm that was intact after Sarah crushed the terminator, so Skynet never would have happened if the terminator was sent back and Reese was sent back to protect Sarah creating a cool paradox
Basically Skynet created itself, smart idea
First meeting between the terminators is awesome and get to see the new dynamic and capabilities
Great idea to have the T-800 as the good guy and he becomes a father figure to John throughout the film
Score is mediocre
Regenerating powers of the T-800 are very cool and can transform into anyone and anything which is great
John already knows about all of the Terminator stuff as Sarah has told him everything and he finally beloved it and realizes his mom isn't crazy
Young John sucks and is very unlikeable
Arnold has some funny moments in the film learning from John
Love that the doctor got to see that everything that Sarah was saying is real
Actions scenes are greatly improved from the first film
After they get Sarah she goes after the man who helps start Skynet leaving John and the T-800
The future is not set and Sarah plans to change it by stopping Skynet and John figures this out and go after her
Sarah attempts to kill Dyson at his home but then snaps out of her rage and doesn't kill him
Tell Dyson what he creates and wants to help stop it
Get into the lab and the Cops arrive and Dyson sacrifices himself to blow up the building
T-1000 arrive son the scene after hearing the location in his police radio
I like that Arnold doesn't kill anyone the entire film
Still a bunch of chase scenes in the film and could have cut a few out to shorten the run time
Chase scene ends at and industrial plant and the T-1000 gets frozen and then shattered
His parts get unthawed and he starts to reform himself, he is unstoppable
Sarah has been injured
Some great call backs to the first film especially the end when the T-800 is crawling
The terminator stops and kills the T-1000 by putting him into the melted steel
He then says they must kill him too and lower him into the steel as he cannot terminator himself
Emotional goodbye to Johns father figure
Movie ends on a message of hope as they face the unknown future hoping that they stopped Skynet from ever happening