Best of the Terminator movies

Rating: 10/10 (3 February 2007)

Actually, this is the best of the movies in the Terminator saga. Almost like Star Wars.
Well, the problem is that at the end of Terminator 1, we don't see why Sarah Connor (played by Linda Hamilton) ends up at the Pescadero State Hospital, which partially begins Terminator 2. At the end of the first Terminator movie, she runs off with her car in Mexico into an approaching thunderstorm.....she rides until the car goes out of sight. Looks like Sarah thinks of the thunderstorm as a nuclear bomb going off...or the end of the world. So the allusion is that she is obsessed with the Terminator machines as a result of the inclement weather.
Like Star Wars, Terminator 2 has some awfully great special effects, especially the part during Sarah Connor's dream when Los Angeles gets bombed by a nuclear explosion and Sarah Connor ends up vaporized down to the bone by the superheated nuclear blast. By then, there is the awful allusion to the endoskeletons made by Skynet...and the endoskeletons are just part of the so-called "Terminator" machines.
The nuclear blast reminds me of "The Day After", but only briefly.
The steel mill scene is also popular because of its environment of very high heat and fire. Additionally, I liked the contrast in the mill when the T-1000 is doused with liquid nitrogen from an out-of-control truck, and frozen solid. The Terminator shoots him into pieces of ice, but with help with the heat of the embers in the steel mill, the T-1000 goes back to life...that was one part I liked most of all. You think the whole thing is over...but it is not yet over.
Not until the Terminator fires his grenade gun round at him does he finish off the T-1000 for good.
Addendum: There is great acting by John Connor (played by Edward Furlong) throughout the whole movie. It is a big wonder that a kid like Edward can be in such an action-packed blockbuster flick.