A State-Of-The-Art Action Movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2012)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a science fiction action film, the second installment of the Terminator franchise and the sequel to The Terminator. Directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron and William Wisher, Jr., it stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong.
Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor and her son John as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shape-shifting T- 1000, sent back in time to kill John to stop him from becoming leader of the human Resistance. An older, less advanced Terminator is also sent back in time to protect John.
Having been informed by a time-traveling soldier in the first film that John will one day grow up to become humanity's savior from a computer- controlled Armageddon, Sarah has responded by becoming a muscle-bound she-warrior bent on educating John in survival tactics and battle strategies. Her ranting about humankind's future has landed Sarah in an insane asylum and John in the foster care system. The rebellious John has responded to his situation by getting into scrapes with the law. When a new and improved Terminator android called the T-1000 arrives from the future to eliminate John, an older model T-800 is sent to protect the boy. The T-1000, however, has the ability to morph itself into any shape it desires, allowing it chameleon-like powers and near indestructibility. The T-800 saves John's life and helps break Sarah out of the institution. Staying only one step ahead of the dogged T-1000, Sarah leads her son and the T-800 to the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems, the company that will invent a robotic intelligence that will eventually take over the world. There, they attempt to convince inventor Miles Dyson to help them stop the future from ever occurring by destroying his work. Dyson sacrifices himself in an explosion to save the world, leading to a final showdown between the two Terminators at a steel foundry.
A sequel to the sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects.The film excelled in many technical categories for its groundbreaking effects for which it won four Oscars.It is the ultimate is a state-of-the-art action movie, all right: It gets you thinking that the most reasonable thing might just have been to blow everyone away.