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Terminator 2 - Judgment Day
1991
A deadly shape-shifting assassin (Robert Patrick) is sent back in time to succeed where his cyborg predecessor failed--to eliminate Sarah Connor's son (Edward Furlong) before he gets a chance to make history, leading the humans in a war against the machines. The original cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) also returns, but this .. Read more
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong |
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| Director | James Cameron |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller |
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Terminator 2 - Judgment Day
A deadly shape-shifting assassin (Robert Patrick) is sent back in time to succeed where his cyborg predecessor failed--to eliminate Sarah Connor's son (Edward Furlong) before he gets a chance to make history, leading the humans in a war against the machines. The original cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) also returns, but this time as the boy's protector.
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong |
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| Director | James Cameron |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 27 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 27 mins HD DVD: 2 hrs 27 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 29 Oct 2001 Blu-ray: 04 Aug 2008 HD DVD: 13 Aug 2007 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (1991)
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Director James Cameron piles on the hard-edged humour and rollercoaster action in this marvellous sequel to his own 1984 horror fantasy classic. Adrenalin junkies get epic value for money as cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger comes back from the future to save our world from the T-1000 model, whose liquid metal shape-changing abilities set a new cinematic standard for stunning, computer graphic special effects. Linda Hamilton turns in another marvellous performance as the fiercely committed heroine who puts a necessary human face on Cameron's high-decibel mayhem and pyrotechnical bravura.
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Thunderous, high-voltage action movie with dazzling special effects that provide a distraction from the often silly narrative.
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19 out of 21 people found this review helpful
Arnie's Best
Arguably the best film of the trilogy. Arnold Schwarzenegger is sublime. In the year 2029, a computer called Skynet is fighting against a human resistance, after having nearly destroyed the rest of humanity in 1997. Skynet has found a way to send some of it's warriors, called Terminators, back in time. This is the story of the Terminator sent to kill the resistance leader in 1995, while he is still a child. The resistance sends a reprogrammed Terminator back to 1995 to protect the young man. The question is, can they survive against the new prototype liquid metal Terminator while preventing the creation of Skynet?
T2 as it is affectionately referred to on merchandising is breathtaking in its apocalyptic vision of the machine vs. human future. The film is accompanied by a powerful score by Brad Fiedal that will have you on the edge of your seat in anticipation. Linda Hamilton?s acting, when she spots Arnie for the first time, is one of those moments that will etch in your mind for a long time.
If you liked T2 you may also like The Terminator, The Matrix, Predator and Dune. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
superb
Tipping the scales at a reputed $100 million dollars, this was allegedly the most expensive movie ever made. The original 1984 film cost one-twelfth as much, but obviously the nice people at Carolco did their sums right because this sequel hauled in more than the gross of the first picture, in its first two days of release in America.
With James Cameron needing to re-establish himself commercially after the semi-flop of The Abyss, and Big Arnie revisiting the role that still stands as his best, there was obviously a lot of pressure on this one to deliver the goods, and it certainly does. No-one can walk out of this and say they didn't see the whole hundred mil up there on the screen in exploding vehicles, wrecked buildings, monster effects and sheer sweaty action.
It opens with an intriguing re-run of the first movie's premise as a gigantic cyborg (Schwarzenegger) and a slimline ordinary joe (Patrick) are zapped back from the future, this time to seek out ten-year-old John Connor (Edward Furlong), the son of the heroine (Hamilton) of The Terminator, and struggle over his life, with the balance of a future that may or not be ruined by a cataclysmic war between man and machines up for grabs in the titanic struggle. However, the twist is that Patrick, a fresh-faced type who impersonates a cop, is the deadly mechanical baddie, and Arnie, in biker leathers and mean shades, has been reprogrammed to protect the brat and his mom and, in between the extensive carnage, gets to reveal that biomechanical killing machines from the future can have their sensitive sides.
While the rewriting of Arnie's persona smacks of commercial cop-out, a sop to the Kindergarten Cop audience, this strategy really pays off when it comes to Patrick's villain, who is constructed from a liquid metal that can shape itself into anything it wants and also pull itself back together if blasted apart. A high-tech version of the Blob, utilising some of the most astonishing and surreal effects ever filmed, Patrick's T-1000 stands as one of the great monsters of the cinema. Like all Cameron movies, this shuffles its character stuff out of the way in the first two-thirds, and then delivers a succession of untoppable climaxes that are routinely out-awesomed by the next set-piece. Because it is a sequel, it's less satisfying than the more idea-driven original, but this is still top-flight kick-ass entertainment, and firepower fans will be in Heaven when Arnie does his shotgun twirl.
Because it is a sequel, it's less satisfying than the more idea-driven original, but this is still top-flight kick-ass entertainment -
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Hamilton in Terminator talks
- 23 Feb 2009
Linda Hamilton has stated she could be set to take a role in an upcoming major blockbuster movie, according to reports. The actress may return as Sarah Connor in the Termination Salvation film, she has told MTV. In an interview with the source, the 52-year-old claimed she is in talks with officials over coming on board, joining the likes of Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The US-star appeared in the first two films in the franchise - The Terminator and The Terminator 2: Judgment Day - but... Read more
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Terminator 2 - Judgment Day - HD DVD Version
A deadly shape-shifting assassin (Robert Patrick) is sent back in time to succeed where his cyborg predecessor failed--to eliminate Sarah Connor's son (Edward Furlong) before he gets a chance to make history, leading the humans in a war against the machines. The original cyborg (Arnold ...
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Terminator 2 - Judgment Day
A deadly shape-shifting assassin (Robert Patrick) is sent back in time to succeed where his cyborg predecessor failed--to eliminate Sarah Connor's son (Edward Furlong) before he gets a chance to make history, leading the humans in a war against the machines. The original cyborg (Arnold ...
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