Robot holocaust or no?

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 2004)

I have to disagree with everyone as usual. This is in fact a mindless action flick. It isn't insightful. The plot is by no means rich. In fact there are plot holes so big you can throw a cyborg cat through them. The attempts to make this an R rated family film are pathetic. "Killing is bad so just leave a hundred cops disabled! Much better!"
The movie is good for what it is. The camera work is fun, the action is intense. The special effects are.. special for their time but primitive for today. But don't let it fool you. This is not more than a gratuitous special effects action flick for the whole family.
I don't think it deserves to be a sequel.
So.. How can one ever possibly finalize this story when you add all the extra science fiction time travel elements that T2 brings? It's plot allows an infinite number of chances to send an infinite number of Terminators back to an infinite number of time lines. Next thing you know whe have a planet full of Terminators and Counter Terminators and Terminator double agents and it would just get out of hand. Hey! Why not go back and just take over the planet in the 1500's? Pave the way for T4 - T12.. And get Hoobastank's agent on the phone, we need a soundtrack!
You take the rich, dark atmosphere of the first movie and you splatter it with hope and rainbows and I am badly disappointed. I like it better as: Computers take over, humans revolt led by John Connor, humans win, computers make a last ditch effort that fails. End of story. It's not a good enough idea to make any more than that in the first place.