Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 135m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton
Synopsis:
As the machines of the future send another, more advanced, Terminator to present day L.A., the adult John Connor counters by sending a modified version of the original Terminator to protect his child self. The kid, who forges both a pastoral and filial role with the robot, together with his now radicalised mother sets about attempting to avert Skynet's Judgment Day.
Review:
While in some ways 'covering' the earlier film (the plot arc is much the same) Cameron's sequel cleverly revises it, culminating in a scene at the scientist Dyson's house in which Sarah almost becomes a terminator herself. The film utilises CGI for the 'liquid metal' terminator effects in a way unprecedented in films, but elsewhere the (mostly material) mayhem is convincingly real. With Schwarzenegger reprising, and later softening, his trademark role in counterpoint to Hamilton's adamantine Sarah, and with its reflective voiceover on Dickian themes, it quickly established itself as a classic of the genre, as well as its director as the world's most wanton toymaker.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 135m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton
Synopsis:
As the machines of the future send another, more advanced, Terminator to present day L.A., the adult John Connor counters by sending a modified version of the original Terminator to protect his child self. The kid, who forges both a pastoral and filial role with the robot, together with his now radicalised mother sets about attempting to avert Skynet's Judgment Day.
Review:
While in some ways 'covering' the earlier film (the plot arc is much the same) Cameron's sequel cleverly revises it, culminating in a scene at the scientist Dyson's house in which Sarah almost becomes a terminator herself. The film utilises CGI for the 'liquid metal' terminator effects in a way unprecedented in films, but elsewhere the (mostly material) mayhem is convincingly real. With Schwarzenegger reprising, and later softening, his trademark role in counterpoint to Hamilton's adamantine Sarah, and with its reflective voiceover on Dickian themes, it quickly established itself as a classic of the genre, as well as its director as the world's most wanton toymaker.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 135m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton
Synopsis:
As the machines of the future send another, more advanced, Terminator to present day L.A., the adult John Connor counters by sending a modified version of the original Terminator to protect his child self. The kid, who forges both a pastoral and filial role with the robot, together with his now radicalised mother sets about attempting to avert Skynet's Judgment Day.
Review:
While in some ways 'covering' the earlier film (the plot arc is much the same) Cameron's sequel cleverly revises it, culminating in a scene at the scientist Dyson's house in which Sarah almost becomes a terminator herself. The film utilises CGI for the 'liquid metal' terminator effects in a way unprecedented in films, but elsewhere the (mostly material) mayhem is convincingly real. With Schwarzenegger reprising, and later softening, his trademark role in counterpoint to Hamilton's adamantine Sarah, and with its reflective voiceover on Dickian themes, it quickly established itself as a classic of the genre, as well as its director as the world's most wanton toymaker.