Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Rating: 8/10 (16 May 2001)

A very rare instance where the sequel is just as good as the original. Writer-director James Cameron pulled out all the stops for this ambitious sequel (with a much higher budget than the original, the highest ever for a movie at the time), which contains spectacular action sequences, a better, if not as effectively simple storyline, and classic, Oscar-winning special effects (who can forget the "liquid metal" scenes?). It's seven years after the events of the first movie, and John Connor, the future savior of the world, is a 12-year-old who lives with a foster family and has his mother locked up in an institute. A new-and-improved terminator then comes from the future to kill the boy and another one, who looks like the one whose mission it was to kill his mother, comes to protect him.
***1/2