The second film in the Terminator franchise used CGI technology to great effect and along with marvellous stunts and other visual effects helped make it a 'best in class' spectacle and a great genre film. It has an intriguing hero, a fierce heroine, and a young boy who is played with energy. One of the few false notes is that the story doesn't produce one single character to root for, and the ending doesn't make 'Sarah Connor' the hero prepared to terminate the machine herself despite everything. The film has an interesting story, but to audiences it was a repeat premise of the Terminator (1984) - a boy has to be destroyed so that he doesn't grow up to be a revolutionary leader who would thwart the objective of an artificial intelligence computer network to bring about a nuclear war. Science paradoxes are rife - a higher intelligence in the future is the very end product of its time travelling mission so as to deduce in a femtosecond that it is futile logic. That aside, we have a convincing central performance from its star once again, and stirring support from Linda Hamilton. Robert Patrick gives a menacing portrayal of the advanced machine out to stop the prevention of 'Judgment Day'. The pacing is good with some thought provoking narrative tight to the storyline which produces comical material in the Terminator-boy exchanges. There are the usual car chases, explosions and fight scenes, all well done - and well directed in the big set pieces, but it is a film most memorable for the way the movie envisions a liquid metal human figure. Since technology has emerged in recent years able to mimic this effect in some small way makes Direcor James Cameron's vision quite remarkable. Tension doesn't run quite as high as in the former film, where Arnold Schwarzenegger excelled in convincing us of a terrifying force and image, a diabolical killing machine seemingly incapable of being destroyed by humans, but it is in the special effects that this film soars to realise the vision of a high technology future and epic story of man vs thinking machine.

One of the best sequels you will ever seen other than Aliens which is also made by Jim Cameron. The action in the movie has a point and the visual effects were spot on. Arnold best point in his beautiful career and Hollywood still making great action movies. Story telling, screenplay, editing, cinematography, BGM, direction all done to perfection. Characters were wrote beautifully even the sky net guy who Sarah haunts to kill just comes in the movie for a short while but what a turn over that character is ... from been the lead of skynet chasing the best technology and to the point gives his life to destroy it. It's beautiful. Feel proud to have lived in this movie era. James is the most genius filmmaker we have in the world today.

Cameron strikes again. Before his Ego and two billion dollar earning movies turned him into a bit of a prat, Cameron made this movie. He turned things on their head by having two Terminators come back, one programmed to be good, the other programmed to be a killer. The T1000 is amazing with its morphing abilities. Unlike the stupid TX from T3, which could create all kinds of weapons, the T1000 is a weapon. As long as it can stab or grab. It's grounded in physics of reality. The action is this is even crazier than Terminator, but then it had a budget twenty times larger. A brilliant movie that's endlessly watchable.

Thriller action and arnold that made this movie a must watch in its era . it teaches us one thing say when you are defeated "I am back"