Part of Action Distraction
With revolutionary Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) imprisoned in a mental institution and her delinquent son John (Edward Furlong) hidden away with a foster family, there’s no one to stop the new T-1000 model assassin droid (Robert Patrick) that’s been sent from the future to end humanity’s hopes in the ceaseless battle against the machines. No one, that is, but a T-800 model (Arnold Schwarzenegger) reprogrammed to assist the Connors in their struggle for the very survival of the human race. Winner of four Oscars, including for Stan Winston and his team’s then-pioneering use of CGI.
“James Cameron (THE TERMINATOR, ALIENS) is the master of apocalyptic pulp, the blue-collar Wagner of the action movie. His thunderously visceral TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY has the clash-of-the-titans scale of grand opera, but with the lyricism replaced by clanking, shrieking metal…. He's using all the not-so-cheap thrills of a violent genre to make a movie with an antiviolence message, and the wonder of T2 is that he pulls it off without looking silly…. 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.” —David Ansen, Newsweek (Jul 7, 1991) “More elaborate than the original, but just as shrewdly put together, it cleverly combines the most successful elements of its predecessor with a number of new twists to produce one hell of a wild ride.” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
