An action flick with a heart

Rating: 7/10 (12 July 2000)

This film has to be one of the more "human" action flicks out there. While most of them deal with the issue of good vs. bad, purely and simple, T2 introduces the concept of the villain in the first film being the hero in the second (T-800), while the innocent heroine (Sarah) of the first film transforms herself into the cynical person. All the while, the figure of a child (John) whose life has to be protected at all costs looms large, because this child wants to protect his mother and to befriend the Terminator.
All this, and a villain that is absolutely relentless and cold-hearted. As I said before, while most action films are good vs. evil, this film confronts its principal figures with themselves: John, who doesn't want to acknowledge his destiny as the savior of a future world, and risks his life for his mother; Sarah, who has transformed herself into a psychopath, and has to deal with the fact that her only hope is one of the robots that killed John's father in the first movie, and the Terminator, who tries to learn from his human masters the traits of honesty, love and principles.
Who said Cameron's masterpiece was Titanic? =)