Fresh
Best of all, though, the level of tension in the film is palpable because we can`t figure out how Arnold is going to terminate the Terminator.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
It's nothing personal.
1991 · 2h 17m · R
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
James Cameron
Overview
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Director and cast
- James Cameron Director
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator
- Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor
- Edward Furlong as John Connor
- Robert Patrick as T-1000
- Earl Boen as Dr. Peter Silberman
- Joe Morton as Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Tarissa Dyson
- Castulo Guerra as Enrique Salceda
- Danny Cooksey Cast
- Jenette Goldstein Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A pop epiphany, marking that commercially creative point where the power of Hollywood meets the purity of myth.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Terminator 2 does work viscerally, however, and with this kind of movie, that's really what counts. No problemo.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
The pathos of the film is the pathos of its leading character -- it is a magnificent machine, but a machine it remains.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
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
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