One of the best kick-ass movies ever made!

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 1999)

For adrenaline-fueled action & suspense, great FX, cast, soundtrack and more, it's hard to be T2. It's even got a love interest, although you need to view the director's cut or see the first Terminator movie to see this. With its apocalyptic, but not completely void of hope, vision of the future, T2 leaps off the screen and into your face and stays there. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this movie, and I still watch it (I own the director's cut). Linda Hamilton's tough-tender Sarah Connor is one of the best female characters ever created for the screen. In order to get the complete story and appreciate her character's evolution, however, you need to watch both Terminator films--which is not to say that either film does not stand on its own; they do. Full of memorable scenes and great one-liners. Cameron's direction is fast-paced, the editing tight and the sound terrific. A classic in the sci-fi pantheon. Among the scenes cut from the final release is a dream sequence in which Kyle Reese visits Sarah Connor in the state hospital. In my opinion, it should've been left in: it reminds us of what she's lost and fleshes out her character even more.