Terminator 2: Cashing In

Rating: 5/10 (18 March 2017)

While the action and effects of this movie were above the original (thanks to a much bigger budget, after the first was a hit), the story, acting and characters are not. The original had imagination, and characters that felt like real people you could root for. It was a tight, imaginative and stylish thriller.
"T2", as it was marketed, has Sarah Connor turn into a completely unlikable mental case, with a whiny, emo, 90s "grunge hipster" son. Worst of all, for purely commercial purposes, it creates a nonsensical excuse for bringing back Arnold's Terminator -- as a good guy.
Yeah. The Terminator of the original becomes a good guy, and stays that way for the rest of the series. And it had to happen solely because Arnold became a big star. Lame all around. It makes you wonder what would have happened if they had put the story first, Arnold or not. We'll never know.