Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
Studio:   Release date: 1991   Rated: R
Language (Country): ( France / USA )
Summary: The Film:
As most of you should know, the original Terminator saw an android killer from the future (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent back in time to present day L.A.. It's mission was simple - kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). You see, there's this artificial intelligence called SkyNet - yet to be invented - that will (one day) get placed in control of military computers and decide to launch a deadly nuclear attack against the human race. With the future Earth a wasteland, it seems the remaining human resistance to SkyNet will eventually be led by one John Connor, Sarah's son. Still following? When SkyNet sends back its Terminator to kill his mother, the future John sends back a protector (Michael Biehn) to save her... who will eventually become John's father. So as the original film wraps up, the Terminator is destroyed, the protector is killed, and Sarah is pregnant with John.

T2 starts more than a decade later. Basically, no one believed Sarah and her story about Terminators from the future and the end of the world, so she's been locked in the nut house (and they've thrown away the key). Meanwhile, her now 10-year-old son, John (Edward Furlong), has been placed in foster care. But, raised as he was by a mother determined to turn him into a "great military leader", he doesn't quite fit in with the other kids. Good egg or not, John is still the key to humanity's future, so SkyNet sends another Terminator back in time to kill him. And, naturally, John's adult self sends back another protector. One of these time travellers is played by Robert Patrick (soon to be of X-Files fame) and the other is good old Arnold again. The question is, which one is John's protector and which wants him dead? More importantly, which one will reach him first? Throw in tons of action, nifty special effects and a cool subplot about a computer scientist named Dyson (Joe Morton), who is the inventor of SkyNet because he's found the pieces of the Terminator from the first film, and you've got a great, high concept sci-fi story, with plenty of bad-ass cool.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day is arguably writer/producer/director James Cameron's best work. T2 manages the neat trick of being a better film that the original Terminator.

Bill Hunt (TheDigitalBits.com)