Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2009)

The differences between this and the first one are just night and day. The first one was good; very good, even, but this is just a whole other level of badassery. I'm going to have to divide this review into factions to explain it:
The Action: The biggest feature here that everyone seems to talk about is the Liquid Terminator, or T1000, and goddamn if I'm not going to agree with them, because he is truly awesome. The action here is a lot of the time just proportionate to how create whatever the T1000 is doing is, with all of his metamorphic features. But there are still enough cool explosions here to satisfy me, too.
The Story: A quite archetypal (and brilliantly told) tale of warning of apocalypse and action heroics, T2 also possesses an interesting moral qualm partially through involving human life and the intricacy within. T2 packs a little of just about everything, from action to science fiction to romance to drama, and it ties it all together in an explosive package that nobody should miss. There are a lot of cool little themes here too, like how the kid teaches Arnold things - and how the "no killing people" thing is carried through with such style - or the evolution of Sarah Connor's character from the first movie to this one, and all of this interspersed with the high-octane action makes for a hugely gratifying experience.
The epic scope, vision and dynamics of this movie are just incredible. It does so much and yet never manages to lose the viewers at all like some other movies might. Terminator 2 is a superlative movie and definitely one of, if not THE, best sequels ever made. See it if you haven't already, and remember, you CAN change your destiny.