"Going On The Freeway Is Suicide"

Rating: 7/10 (17 October 2012)

Although the much loved and touted "freeway scene" is almost as good, and certainly not better, than the "freeway scene" in Terminator 2 (1993) ten years earlier, it is near suicide, but will put you on life support, for a sequel to have such a standard action vehicle turn as your centerpiece.
The premise of the first film was so original and fresh that one wonders how it could run out of creative juice by the middle of the second movie. Was that it? The introduction of a mostly talked about Zion was the best new thing they could do.
There is a lot of nifty action, but, then again, in such an ambitious and mega-budgeted sequel, the innovation of multiple Smiths is not used once, but twice. The low battery light is flashing in this one and as everyone will find out, there will be no "phone exit" to get you recharged in the final film of the trilogy. So they mercifully pull the plug.