Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 5
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.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 2
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.
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A sequel to the sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, now a single mother to rebellious teen John Connor (Edward Furlong), during the late nineties. Having been informed by a time-traveling soldier in the first film that John will one day grow up to become humanity's
Jul 3, 1991 Wide
Mar 31, 1998
TriStar Pictures
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Cast
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Arnold Schwarzenegge...
The Terminator -
Linda Hamilton
Sarah Connor -
Edward Furlong
John Connor -
Robert Patrick
T-1000 -
Earl Boen
Dr. Silberman -
Joe Morton
Miles Dyson -
S. Epatha Merkerson
Tarissa Dyson -
Castulo Guerra
Enrique Salceda -
Jenette Goldstein
Janelle Voight -
Dalton Abbott
Infant John Connor -
Xander Berkeley
Todd Voight -
Ennalls Berl
Bryant -
Lisa Brinegar
Girl -
Charles Robert Brown
Tattoo Biker -
Casey Chavez
Kid -
Danny Cooksey
Tim -
Nikki Cox
Girl -
Gwenda Deacon
Night Nurse -
Michael Edwards
Old John Connor -
Abdul Salaam El Raza...
Gibbons -
Noel Evangelisti
Hospital Guard -
Leslie Hamilton Gaer...
Twin Sarah -
Ken Gibbel
Douglas -
J. Rob Jordan
Pickup Truck Driver -
Peter Kent
Mr. Schwarzenegger's... -
Pat Kouri
SWAT Leader -
Don Lake
Mossberg -
Mark Christopher Law...
Burly Attendant -
Van Ling
Cyberdine Tech -
Jared Lounsberry
Kid -
Colin Patrick Lynch
Attendant -
Tom McDonald
Cop -
Mike Muscat
Moshier -
DeVaughn Walter Nixo...
Danny Dyson -
Dean Norris
SWAT Team Leader -
Jim Palmer
Jock -
Denney Pierce
Burly Attendant -
Diane Rodriguez
Jolanda Salceda -
Pete Schrum
Lloyd -
Tony Simotes
Vault Guard -
Dan Stanton
Lewis as T-1000 -
Don Stanton
Lewis the Guard -
Charles Tamburro
Police Chopper Pilot -
Richard Vidan
Weatherby -
Shane Wilder
Trucker -
Gerard G. Williams
Jock -
Robert Winley
Cigar Biker -
Ron Young
Pool Cue Biker -
Terrence Evans
Tanker Truck Driver -
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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (5) | DVD (46)
A pop epiphany, marking that commercially creative point where the power of Hollywood meets the purity of myth.
Top CriticTerminator 2 does work viscerally, however, and with this kind of movie, that's really what counts. No problemo.
The pathos of the film is the pathos of its leading character -- it is a magnificent machine, but a machine it remains.
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.
The picture is full of spectacular action sequences and dazzling special effects, but the narrative doesn't have the snap of the original's: it's lumbering and monotonous, and it carries a heavy-handed anti-nuke message.
Inside Terminator 2 beats a human heart. But its soul is that of a killer machine.
The best efforts of highly trained talents are not enough to save the picture from its own deep-rooted foolishness.
Cameron has done an honourable and undoubtedly skilful job of tailoring his new film to the tastes of the times without too much sloppy compromise. He's made a science fiction film with verve, imagination and even a little wit.
These are very special special effects, but that's about all the film is, special effects.
Shamefully sadistic, achingly dull and totally predictable, it rehashes the far superior 1984 original.
This new picture is optimistically humanist.
Linda Hamilton turns in another terrific performance as the fiercely committed heroine who puts a necessary human face on Cameron's high-decibel mayhem and pyrotechnical bravura.
An enduringly entertaining blockbuster.
Set the standard for modern Hollywood's F/X-driven mega-productions and cemented James Cameron's dystopian vision as modern science-fiction's saga par excellence.
With all the time-travel and cyborg collision going on, Cameron does a fine job believing in his logic. Even if the math doesn't always add up, it's easy to be swept up by this audacious movie.
Tons of action, violence, and special effects.
It's just not as good a film as The Terminator, despite soundly surpassing it in a few areas.
Pulls out the stops, setting the gold standard for expensive, explosive summer blockbusters.
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Movies Like Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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- The Terminator: I'll be back.
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- Janelle Voight: Wolfie's fine honey. Wolfie's just fine.
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- The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
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- Sarah Connor: Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up! It's all your fault!
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- Dr. Silberman: You! You broke my arm!
- Sarah Connor: There are 215 bones in the human body, thats one!
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- Sarah Connor: Three billon human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The Survivors of the nuclear holocaust called the war Judgement Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the way against the machines.
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