Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (DVD)

...Connor, my son. The first Terminator was sent to strike at me in the year 1984. It failed. The second was set to strike at John himself when he was still a child. As before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for John. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first... - Sarah Connor's opening remarks The original "Terminator" was a low budget sci.fi B-Moive that became a great success, probably one of ...
...a cyborg, known as the Terminator went back in time from the 21st Century to the eighties to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor. The reason for this was that she is the soon to be mother of the child that rises up and becomes the leader of the human race when a future war breaks out between humans and machines. But, to help Sarah, a soldier is sent back through time to protect her from the Terminator. She of course survives the ordeal otherwise ...

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The Terminator was a massive success (Read my review for more info) and so it was inevitable that a second film would be made. But could it possibly beat the brilliance of the origional film? For starters, Terminator 2: Judgement Day has a different feel to it. Rather than being a horror (I think it's a horror anyway....) like the origional, James Cameron decided to make the sequel an action packed masterpiece! The other major difference is that ...
...the Resistance captured a Terminator of the same model as the one that the Machines sent before. After a bit of programming, the Terminator is now a loyal protector of John Connor, the soon to be leader of the Resistance. So who is the baddie? Bring on Robert Patrick. He plays the part of the T1000, a far better model than the previous machine. It has the ability to change shape as it is made out of liquid metal. It can change into anything it touches ...

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Judgment Day: Terminator 2 was released in the UK in August 1991, seven years after the first film. I’ve seen the film several times now and thought I should review it. Judgment Day also known as Terminator 2 stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Edward Furlong as John Connor. It also stars Robert Patrick as the T1000. The story is by James Cameron and William Wisher. James Cameron also produced and directed ...
...unstoppable cyborg known as the Terminator T1000, which can change its shape into anything it touches, is sent back from the future to eliminate John Connor, a future resistance leader who fights against the machines taking over the world. Skynet is the computer that sends the T1000 to wipe out John Connor who is winning the battle against the human like machines in the future. His mother, Sarah, is in a mental institution where she’s been for a ...

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...of the low budget The Terminator in 1984, it was only a matter of time before a follow-up was made. Unfortunately, legal wranglings over the rights meant that the film wasn't possible until 1991, and also meant that there was an extremely short timescale for a production of this size as the release date had been set for the July 4th weekend. The delay in making the follow-up had allowed Cameron to make Aliens and, more importantly, The Abyss, which ...
...Cameron to create a new Terminator which could change shape and imitate living creatures. Taking things further on from The Abyss the effects would have to be able to imitate human movement. To give the effects artists at ILM time to create the new technology all scenes that were to include CGI shots had to be filmed at the start of the shooting schedule. The story of the original Terminator was one of the most original sci-fi stories of recent ...

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day is obviously the follow up to The Terminator. So, really, I should be writing an opinion on Terminator first, but I liked Terminator II better, so that’s why I’m writing this! Did you know that Terminator II was actually made back in 1991. Seems ages ago doesn’t it. I can remember it being released, oh how time does fly! The film won no less than 8 awards in 1992, including an Oscar (best sound effects, ...
...haven’t seen it) that a Terminator is a machine and they are taking over the world basically. These terminators are sent from the future to destroy the leader of human existence. - - - Spoiler from here 10 years have passed since the first terminator where we saw Sarah Conor being pursued by a terminator. She now has a son called John (Edward Furlong) who is the leader of human existence as we know it. This time, the terminator is after John, ...

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...the box office smash hit, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Linda Hamilton. I must say this was my favourite film out of the trilogy, the storyline, characters; special effects for that era really made this a rock solid action film. After a 7 year wait, fans were gifted with a sequel that was well worth the illustrious wait. Brief Recap of the first film: Let's take a brief recap of what happened in the first film. ...
...ended happily and sadly, the terminator was destroyed and Sarah managed to escape, however her lover Kyle dies. General Plot for Terminator 2: The sequel picks up ten years on from the first film. We have a new addition to the Connor family in the form of a 10 year old wild child John Connor, who one day will lead the human resistance who fill, fight the machines. Between the first and second film, Sarah was involved in stopping technology advancement, ...

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...fashion. Eventually the now orchestrated terminator theme comes to the fore and through the very fires of the war comes the opening credits. A very disturbing and symbolic scene as it depicts a child playground engulfed in the flames of nuclear holocaust. Terminators are cybernetic organisms. Essentially this is a machine with metallic skeleton interior with a human flesh exterior. The role of the terminator is played by the man who seems to have ...
...Embracing this side of the Terminator so naturally Arnie shines throughout this picture. John Connor's would-be assassin, the T-1000, is played by Robert Patrick. The T-1000 is a hugely advanced terminator model made from liquid metal. Think of him as a mecury-type being that can take solid form to look like a human and alter his shape into more liquid formations to suit the occassion. These unique abilitys make him extremly dangerous, allowing ...

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James Cameron's original Terminator movie is one of the greatest Sci-Fi movies ever made in my humble opinion. Terminator 2, which followed a number of years later, is a virtualy retread of the original move but with an enormous budget and more advanced special effects used on it and is also a damn fine movie. In the original Terminator movie, we are introduced to a world where the machines have taken over and are systematically eradicating the human ...
...the machines send back a Terminator - a cyborg killing machine - into the past to terminate the existence of Connor before he is even born by killing his mother (played by Linda Blair). However, one of the rebels also manages to jump into the machine and get sent back with it before the time gate closes. Effectively the movie is one long chase as both mother and rebel run from the relentless pursuit of a seemingly unstoppable killing machine. Terminator ...

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...was first visited by the Terminator ten years have passed and now her son, John, the leader of the future human resistance, has been targeted. A new and more deadly terminator, T-1000, is sent back in time to destroy John while he is still a young boy. But another Terminator is also sent back, assigned to find and protect John. Meanwhile, Sarah has been locked up in a mental hospital, no one believing her story of the future demise of the world. ...
...the powerful T-1000 and the Terminator and Sarah must do everything in their power to protect John. ~ Cast ~ The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger John Connor - Edward Furlong Sarah Connor - Linda Hamilton T-1000 - Robert Patrick Miles Dyson - Joe Morton If you read my review on the first Terminator film, you'll have seen that I wasn't too impressed with it. This meant that I wasn't expecting too much from the second film even though this seems ...

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...Connor, who reprogrammed the original Terminator and sent it back in time to protect himself as a young boy. And John's mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton), is determined to change the future by killing a scientist who bases his ultra-advanced weapons technology on a microchip left behind during the first Terminator's earthly visit, thus unwittingly designing the doom of mankind. So the relentless evil Terminator from the first (Arnold Schwarzenegger) ...
...emotions. He also gives the Terminator a crash course in teen slang. But the robots have also sent a Terminator back in time, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), more advanced, more deadly even than the original Terminator. His mission to terminate the young John Connor. Relentless and almost invincible, the T-1000 is made of liquid metal, so he's self-healing and capable of metamorphoses into anything he's made contact with. The collision of these two ...

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...Terminator. Like the first film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, and was met with great commercial and critical success, noted for being the first film to use human motion for the CG special effects. The Plot Ten years on from surviving the attack from the menacing Terminator, sent back from the future to prevent her giving birth to her son, John, Sarah Connor finds herself institutionalised after trying ...
...sequel as it transpires the Terminator is a version of the previous, and is actually sent back to protect Sarah and her now 10-year-old son John from the new threat - the other man, a more advanced Terminator, model T-1000, capable of metamorphosing into some dangerous things and seemingly indestructible. So, it's on the run again for Sarah Connor. The Cast and Performances This time round in the role of the original Terminator, Arnie has a little ...

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...Furlong) and a reprogrammed T800 terminator machine (Arnold Schwarzenneger) who has been sent back in time to the year 1994 (By John Connor himself) to protect him from an advanced T1000 mimetic poly-aloy terminator (Robert Patrick). Sarah Conner meanwhile has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital run by the slimy Doctor Silberman. The main story is a tale of friendship between John Connor and his Terminator almost along the same lines of say ...
...extremely believable and dramatic. Terminator 2 has moments of suspense which are further enhanced by some great performances from Edward Furlong, Sarah Connor and of course Arnold Schwarzenneger (In what must be his favourite role.). The soundtrack by Brad Feidel is also superb, it's use is subtle and is never overpowering. The ILM special effects still look fantastic even though the film is now 10 years old! The DVD comes rammed with many features ...

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...of the first film; a Terminator cyborg is sent back in time from a post-apocalyptic future to assassinate the future leader of the human resistance against the machines. The humans send their own protector, and battle is joined. This time around, there are two cyborgs, Arnie’s T-800, and the more sophisticated T-1000, played by Robert Patrick (Die Hard 2, The X-Files, Charlie’s Angels 2). Where the first film had a mere $6 million to ...
...who haven’t seen the first Terminator needn’t worry; one of James Cameron’s central tenets when making sequels is that the audience needn’t have seen the first film. Sure enough, the opening twenty minutes reprise the plot of the first movie, bringing us back up to speed. The film has some fun playing with the audience’s expectations; in the first film, Arnie’s Terminator was the villain, and for the early part ...

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Terminator 2 - Judgement Day. Even the title is cool! A film on special effects steroids with action a-go-go. Even so, the story and characterisation in this film is surprisingly good. Most sequels tend to be of a far poorer quality in these terms and although T2 can never match the raw, brutal power of The Terminator; with its added depth of character and equally fast and persuasive storyline, T2 is up there with the greats. Linda Hamilton steals ...
...are mind-bogglingly effective. The T1000 terminator was the first of its kind in the movie world and a uniquely and visually inspiring piece of software it is. The music again though supports a fast flowing storyline and there is, as always in Arnie's films, a superb battery of terrific one liners and some sharp dialogue. An interesting parallel was run with the T1000 version intending to kill John Connor and sarah Conor intending to kill Miles, ...

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...effects seen at the time. Terminator is truly a modern classic in every meaning of the sense. After failing in the first film, another more advanced Terminator, the T1000, is sent back in time to try and destroy John Conner, the son of Sarah Conner, who will become leader of a human resistance in the future in a war between man and machine. The only thing standing between him and certain death is a familiar face, the T800 from the original film. ...
...in any way. Overall Terminator 2 is a great sci-fi, time travelling, cybernetic, apocalyptic film, and truly is one of the best of its type made. All of the credit has to go to James Cameron who wrote and directed Judgement Day. While some may criticise that there is perhaps too much Hollywood influence as opposed to the previous film, I think it adds the big budget that the series needed to go forward. I would recommend the film to anyone and everyone, ...

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