T2 - The Greatest Action Movie Of All Time!

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2020)

Terminator 2 has and always will be my favourite movie of all time. not only is it a compelling story, but the visual effects and the CGI still hold up almost 30 years later! the CGI of a movie which came out in 1991 is still more realistic than movies from 2020!
the movie's characters are likeable, charismatic and total badasses! from Edward Furlong's 10 year old John Connor, to Arnold Schwarzenegger's all time best portrayal of the T-800, to the frightening realism of Robert Patrick's villainous T-1000 - this movie has it all!
what really puts this movie above every other sequel in movie franchises is that it is a natural progression of the character arcs created in 1984's The Terminator. James Cameron, for me at his peak, created a beautiful, impactful and simultaneously menacing sequel all in one. the action never stops. you really feel what the characters are going through.
the first time i saw this movie was 14 years ago, when i was 8. ever since then it's been my favourite of every movie in the industry. i am definitely in the minority when i say that i love every single Terminator movie to date. people give the later sequels released after T2 so much more hate than they deserve. the characters take fate into their own hands by the end of the movie. although i love every movie in this long-running franchise - there will never be a Terminator movie able to beat T2. T2 is Terminator at its highest and mightiest. an absolute 10 out of 10.