Terminator 2: Judgment Day Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

| Original Score: B

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.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Tons of action, violence, and special effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Terminator 2 is a state-of-the-art action movie, all right: It gets you thinking that the most reasonable thing might just have been to blow everyone away.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

It's just not as good a film as The Terminator, despite soundly surpassing it in a few areas.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Pulls out the stops, setting the gold standard for expensive, explosive summer blockbusters.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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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...one of the most indelible examples of the contemporary action film...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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.

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The special effects from this 1991 classic action flick still hold up in today's world. T2 is a timeless classic that will live on forever.

| Original Score: 5/5

This remains one of the greatest and most adored action movies of the 90s.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Arnold 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.

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A fireworks grand finale that never stops.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

...a milestone in the evolution of action films and their now-omnipresent computer-generated imagery.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is an enjoyable, often exhilarating piece of filmmaking, with a wry sense of humor to boot.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

As a fancy mechanism fueled by the pleasure of watching legions of people and equipment being summarily destroyed, this is pretty hot stuff.

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It's big and clever, and one could argue that even Skynet would appreciate its technical skill.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Structured as a simple chase, the story sags midway, but the first hour and last 30 minutes display an enjoyably relentless bravura.

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Oh, it's well made. It's also overproduced and overlong and the ultimate in the effects-driven movie syndrome.

| Original Score: 3/5