The Best Terminator Movie!!!

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2015)

Sequels rarely surpass originals, but "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" provides the exception to the rule. Writer & director James Cameron has outdone himself with this follow-up film to his seminal sci-fi, time travel, yarn about men and machines. In the original, a Cybernetic organism classified a Terminator appeared from the future to execute Sarah Connor, while the mankind resistance army of the future dispatched a warrior back to 1984 to save Sarah from certain death. Kyle Reese showed up and helped Sarah kill the Terminator. Nevertheless, although our heroine managed to survive the nightmarish ordeal and have a baby before she hightailed it to Mexico, Cyberdyne Systems acquired the forearm of the Terminator that she killed in the machine press and Sarah eventually wound up locked away in custody at the Pescadero Mental Hospital. Miraculously, Sarah's ten-year son John Connor (Edward Furlong in his first role) has been farmed out to foster parents, Janelle (Jenette Goldstein) and Tod Voight (Xander Berkeley), but is living the life of a low-grade hoodlum ripping off automated teller devices at banks when another Terminator designated a T-1000 (Robert Patrick) shows up to kill him. Unlike the enemy Terminator in "The Terminator," the T-1000 is a highly advanced model that consists of liquid metal and can alter its shape. Essentially, the T-1000 is far more formidable than the earlier Terminators, and it gives our heroes a run for their money. As it turns out, the Resistance has rewired a T-800 (Model 101) Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger of "Red Sonja") and sent him back to 1995 to protect John. The outcome is a thoroughly exciting action thriller that raises the stakes where the villainous Terminators are concerned. Cameron and co-writer William Wisher have supplemented the plot with some humor as young John Connor helps the Terminator fit into society by saying familiar phrases. The T-1000 is a truly menacing adversary for our heroes and they have to keep on blasting away at it because it can repair itself in no time. As Sarah Connor, Linda Hamilton has undergone a transformation from being a vulnerable waitress to being a lean, mean doll who fights the Terminator. Initially, when John and the T-101 show up at the mental asylum, they have to battle the T-1000 and escape by the hair of their chin. You won't find a better sci-fi actioneer than "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," and some of the dialogue is funny.