Cameron directs with a huge amount of style and personality, effortlessly jumping from the $6.4 million original to the $88 million sequel.
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05/22/09
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:38
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.4/10
Consensus: T2 features thrilling action sequences and eye-popping visual effects, but what takes this sci-fi/ action landmark to the next level is the depth of the human (and cyborg) characters.
Runtime: 3 hrs 45 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A decade after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) destroyed the original Terminator, a second unstoppable killing machine (Arnold Schwarzenegger) arrives from the post-apocalyptic year 2029. But this... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong
Director: James Cameron
Reviews for Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Structured as a simple chase, the story sags midway, but the first hour and last 30 minutes display an enjoyably relentless bravura.
06/24/06
For all its state-of-the-art pyrotechnics and breathtaking thrills, this bruisingly exciting movie never loses sight of its humanity. That's its point, and its pride.
05/18/09
It's just not as good a film as The Terminator, despite soundly surpassing it in a few areas.
12/16/09
Brutally beautiful, darkly comic sci-fi
01/01/00
Top CriticPulls out the stops, setting the gold standard for expensive, explosive summer blockbusters.
05/25/09
A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half.
05/18/09
As appealing as the film’s visuals are, it’s really the heart and soul of the characters that make T2 transcend the summer sequel dumping ground.
09/09/02
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) is the well-executed, action-packed sequel to the earlier film of the same name.
01/01/00
Nobody, I think, will complain that it doesn't have enough action.
01/01/00
Top CriticA fireworks grand finale that never stops.
09/23/07
They enhance the movie by introducing dangerous threats to the survival of the heroes, while retaining the all-important physical essence of the fear of the chase that made the first film so exciting.
11/03/01
Has more than enough story, action, thrills and eye-popping special effects to satisfy even the most numbed moviegoers.
01/01/00
It's a tank of a movie, big, powerful and hard to resist.
01/01/00
Top CriticWith more than half a dozen extremely cool action sequences, it's not a couple of so-so scenes that will make it any less of an unforgettable movie, and one of the best crafted Hollywood action flicks I've seen.
09/10/02
Like Mt. Rushmore, it is huge and a must-see, but one wonders if it really was such a good idea in the first place.
01/01/00
Mr. Cameron has made a swift, exciting special-effects epic that thoroughly justifies its vast expense and greatly improves upon the first film's potent but rudimentary visual style.
05/20/03
Top CriticArnold Schwarznegger is still the ultimate leathers-wearing, Harley-riding, lever-action shotgun-toting bad-***
03/19/03
A true classic, though I still miss the grit and nuance of the original.
01/01/00
...one of the most indelible examples of the contemporary action film...
05/21/09
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