It goes without saying that Terminator 2 is sublime action cinema.

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2019)

***Spoilers ahead***
James Cameron struck pure gold when he made the first Terminator, and Terminator 2: Judgement Day is just as impressive as the first movie (if not more so). This sequel delivers everything a great sequel deserves and needs to accomplish: expand the world of the original work in a very natural, bold and ambitious way that explores the uncharted areas of the story. Judgement Day is to The Terminator franchise what The Empire Strikes Back is to Star Wars; and all the sequels that came after it one can try all they like, but they can't live up to THIS colossal masterpiece of sci-fi action.
Judgement Day is bucket-loads of fun, and it still holds up ridiculously well against more 'modern' cinema. It's films like these that are like fine wines; they get better with age it would seem. And when you revisit the film there's something you didn't notice the first time you saw it: re-watching a film this good is a rewarding and fulfilling experience, just like the film's premise of the T-800 saving John Connor from being assassinated by the T-1000. There's hardly anything pointless in the film's story: it's a microcosm on human volatility, machinery learning from humanity's worst impulses and applying said experience to improve upon its own purposes (good or bad) and that a cause worth fighting for (saving a life) is never a pointless endeavor.
Terminator 2 is one of those rare flawless films that, in spite of being a 'genre-piece' from the 1990s, transcends most cinema of its ilk in ways that many films just don't seem to get: it's not genres that determine a good story (or film) but the essence of the experience you get from it and the overall impression it leaves on the audience that helps the film become a transcendent journey.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day has probably been judged countless times already, but who's to say that new incite is redundant when it comes to classic films like this? I'm not pretending I'm saying anything that hasn't already been said about Judgement Day, but my point is that it's still fun and insightful reviewing these movies on one's own terms. It all boils down to expressing our own experiences watching these things in full, and everyone's two-cents on a movie is different to the next. And that's what makes movie-watching so damn great.
Terminator 2 gets 5/5 stars: I could keep going on and on about why this film's great, but there's no need to keep going. I'll just let it speak for itself.