Still one of the greatest Action movies ever created, an incredible atmosphere and tone that few films have recaptured

Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2019)

Terminator 2 is still a masterpiece after all these years and my personal favourite from James Cameron which is in my opinion his greatest work. The film is so incredibly directed with such style and thrilling action sequences, incredible acting and character development, plus the smart and revolutionary use of CGI that started a new revolution in filmmaking technology.
With such an incredible and smartly written story that feels epic and massive in scale, it's all the characters that truly make this movie shine. All the human characters bleed with emotion and have completely understandable motivation behind their viewpoints. The greatest thing about this movie however to me is the musical score by Brad Fidel. It creates such a lucid atmosphere to this movie as it adds so many emotional layers so so many scenes which adds even more to the stakes and struggles of the characters. It's such a unique sound which often at times makes the movie feel dreamy and surreal which does reflect the tone of the movie, probably most of all Sarah Connor who in the movie is often completely overrun by pure emotion and crazed hatred over rationality most of the time which is why she's borderline psychotic in the first half of the film anyway.
The film's core message is about humanity over technology which is a powerful message for sure and what technology could do one day, but most of all it's just an immensely satisfying action film with cutting edge effects and incredible atmosphere and incredible and unique identity which is why so many movie fans keep on coming back to this movie in particular, it's a classic and there are very few things about it that you can fault. So many future films built upon the structure and foundation this movie put in place and it's a masterful and resonant action film that ages better and better as time goes on