A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half.
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05/18/09
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.1/10
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
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
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Reviews for Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1 - 9 (sorted by date)
Top CriticFor 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
Top CriticArnold Schwarzenegger is more comfortable and assured here than the first time around, reprising a role so perfectly suited to the voice and physique that have established him as a larger-than-life film persona.
05/08/08
Top CriticAs a fancy mechanism fueled by the pleasure of watching legions of people and equipment being summarily destroyed, this is pretty hot stuff.
03/01/07
Top CriticMr. 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 CriticIt's Cameron's show; he's the reigning king of movie pow, with dark wit and a poet's eye for mayhem. T2 cost a reported $100 million, and you can actually see where the money went.
05/12/01
Top CriticIt's a tank of a movie, big, powerful and hard to resist.
01/01/00
Top CriticBrutally beautiful, darkly comic sci-fi
01/01/00
Top CriticNobody, I think, will complain that it doesn't have enough action.
01/01/00
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