He's back

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2009)

As far as action movies go T2:Judgement Day is IT, it's got explosions, shooting, and 'Ahnold shwarshnaygah'! (yes I spelled his name wrong on purpose!)
Sequel to the 1984 low-budget masterpiece "The Terminator", T2 brings everything from T1 to the table and more.
The acting is by far the best thing in the film, every role is played to the point that you have to surrender to the movie's will that these are not just characters, these people are 'REALITY' *. The visual effects are another great for this film, the effects are astounding, well not nowadays, but for back then, these were beyond just a 'breakthrough', and are still believable enough now.
though this movie is not without it's flaws....... Towards the films end, the primary antagonist becomes relatively nonthreatening. He seems to lose he's cunning and his smart thinking, to the point where there seems to be plot holes. Instead of using awesome terminator abilities we know he has, he simply does things the hard way, yet somehow always seems to be able to keep up with the protagonists.
Another thing that might turn off some viewers is that you can't really relate to anybody in this movie. One person's bad boy middle-school kid with rotten foster parents who he's stuck with(some may be able to relate to this, but not most), one's a woman who's trapped in a mental hospital, one's a scientist on the verge of a world-changing discovery and one is a.. uh, robot. As you can see, not much empathy, sympathy, sure, just not empathy. One interesting piece of the movie is the movie's moral statement, about the value of human life. Throughout the film the Terminator is taught about human emotions and about how all life is valuable. This is so prominent that by the end the Terminator has even gained a basic level of human emotions. Leave it to James Cameron to effectively give a trained assassin killing robot emotions.
Well, there you have it, a rough and tough action film with a kind of weak climax, but it doesn't take away from the rest of the story.
9/10 (probably would have been 9.5/10 if it weren't for that ending).
* The exception of this would have been the role of Edward Furlong, though this is somewhat excusable due to him being a child actor, his character is a bit less than believable.