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.
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,
12 Aug 2014
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A pop epiphany, marking that commercially creative point where the power of Hollywood meets the purity of myth.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
29 Jul 2013
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Terminator 2 does work viscerally, however, and with this kind of movie, that's really what counts. No problemo.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
29 Jul 2013
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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,
29 Jul 2013
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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.