Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Earl Boen, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Robert PatrickDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-10-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Live / Artisan
DVD Reviews of Terminator 2: Judgment Day
DVD Review: More Terminators, more mayhem, and morphing galore!
Summary: 5 Stars
Terminator 2: Judgement day, came out seven years after Terminator 1. This time around, Director James Cameron had more trucks, more terminators, and a newly showcased special effects technique that put the film way over budget. So what? This thing is brighter and more in depth than the first one because of it!
We start the movie as expected. There's a flash of light. Some lightning, and a spherical shape that appears anywhere it ends up "landing". Emerging from it is a naked man whose lack of clothing does not seem to bother him. It's Robert Patrick playing the role of the new and improved T-1000. A terminator (basically an android assassin from the future) that can blend in well with humans as it can bleed, sweat, and have bad breath!
It doesn't take long for a second Terminator to show. This time we're really stoked as Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up via the same spherical, glass shattering entrance. He's not here to kill this time, but to stop the T-1000 from its mission. Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) now has a young son named John, who as we learned in the first movie, will grow up to lead a group of resistance fighters against the dominating killing machines of the future. Sarah, however, is in a mental institution for her continual and passionate belief that the Terminators will soon be destroying everything living on the earth, and that she has to do everything she can to protect her son and prepare him for his future destiny.
John Connor (played by Edward Furlong) is a pre-teen with an attitude. He's living with foster parents who can't control him. Riding around on a dirt bike and doing anything but being a constructive, model citizen (what do you expect from a kid anyways?) he lives his life with glee and has a generally bad attitude about everything.
The chase soon begins, as the T-1000 starts on a manhunt across the city posing as a police officer. "Have you seen this boy?" is his famous line as he soon finds where John lives. The older model Terminator T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is also out looking for John, as it is apparent in the first movie the assassination of his mother did not change the future, now the future lies in the life and death of the son, John.
1) Action: This thing is wrought with suspenseful shooting and chase scenes. We have multiple scenes that include The T-800 on a Fat-Boy Harley Davidson with the leather attire to go with it (acquired at a biker bar early in the movie). We have Freightliner trucks of all cargo loads and capacities used to smash up the L.A. roads numerous times. One particular scene was when the T-800 is going down a drainage canal and thinks it has avoided the more powerful T-1000, only to suddenly see the T-1000 behind the wheel of the already smashed up semi careen off the overpass and into the channel below to give chase. Both of course, are after John, who's on his dirt bike and at this point frantically running for his life.
2) Chemistry and Set up: T2 does a good job further exploring the Terminator mythos as we have John becoming "friends" with his savior and starting to believe all to much all of the things his mother was telling him, and the world...which now don't seem so crazy after all. We again get a good look at the "endoskeleton" underneath the skin of the terminator, and the reason it must not fail in its mission of helping John escape the deadly clutches of the T-1000. Sarah Connor is soon in the picture as she narrowly escapes her prison and avoids death by the T-1000, who has gone there to kill her off and perhaps gain some of her features etc. for its own A.I., which it wants to use to lure John back into its deadly game. Sarah is saved of course by the T-800, and soon mother and son are reunited and take off with the T-800.
3) Special effects: Awesome. The "morphing" was not a new concept but at it's height of glory at the making of this movie in 1991. The T-1000 shows this well as we watch Robert Patrick's character able to change into literally anything it touches, including its texture and color. Walking through jail doors and absorbing close range shotgun blasts, it appears as not an endoskeleton, but a simple, shiny gray matter that though can be changed, can quickly meld and morph back into its original form. Many explosive scenes rock several parts of the movie as we follow the plight of the Terminators as they pretty much level anything that gets in their way.
4) The mythos Continued: In the original, Sarah Connor kills the terminator after activating a hydraulic press inside a manufacturing plant which crushes the Terminator. All that is left is the arm he was reaching out to kill her with in its last ditch effort before Termination. Now in 1991, the arm is in the property of Cyberdyne systems, who have been studying the arm, along with a chip that also survived, to learn from the futuristic technology. Sarah Connor, now a driven, physically fit phenom, goes on a solo mission after getting some armament from a desert camp in Mexico. She must now assume the roles that terminators have had all along: Kill someone in order to alter the future. In this case it's Miles Dyson (played by Joe Morton) who is the senior scientist on the project. Sarah is convinced killing Dyson will make things right again.
5) The final countdown: The T-1000 and John are now tighter than ever, and go to intercept Sarah before she can carry out her mission. Convincing Dyson of the actual future he is about to help create, they convince him to come with them to Cyberdyne to get the arm and the chip so that no further technology can be performed. More battles ensue as they end up trapped inside the plant. Dyson stays behind and the others move on for a huge showdown inside a steel plant laden with containers of molten fiery liquid. A humanity filled ending ensues as we see John and the Terminator T-1000 part ways forever.
Terminator 2 was the perfect sequel to continue the Cameron masterpiece. More action, deeper storyline and again, a great cast, coupled with special effects, make Terminator 2 a must have for any science fiction collection.
Description of Terminator 2: Judgment Day
After he pushed the envelope of computer-generated special effects in The Abyss, director James Cameron turned this hotly anticipated sequel to Terminator into a well-written, action-packed showcase for advanced special effects and for one of the most invincible villains ever imagined. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a legitimate sequel: there's more story to tell about a hulking, leather-clad android (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who arrives from the future to protect a rebellious teenager and future leader (Edward Furlong) from being killed by the tenacious T-1000 robot (Robert Patrick), whose liquid-metal construction makes him seemingly unstoppable. The fate of the future lies in the balance, with Linda Hamilton (who would later marry her director) reprising her role as the rugged woman whose son will change the course of history. --Jeff ShannonFolk Music CDs
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