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.

The finest action movie of all time i think this movie is best

Yeah, i will wait this scenario in 10 years. This is not sci-fi now, its now reality.

Terminator 2 (1991) ReviewSet ten years after the 1984 classic Arnold Schwarzenegger returns but this time his muscular cyborg is reprogrammed to protect the young John Connor. Meanwhile his mother Sarah Connor is doing time in a psychiatric prison because people think she is insane. John Connor is a troubled juvenile living with foster parents who he hates. He can hack into cash machines due to his mother preparing him for the future which even he doesn't believe. This time the robot on their trail is an unstoppable liquid metal cyborg played brilliantly by Robert Patrick who can morph his arms into knives, run really fast and change into anybody he touchesA few tiny nitpicks so say about it is retreads a few things from the original and the pacing sometimes feels slow. However the film never really stops for breath and the action has been amped up considerably since the last one. From an opening future war battle, two truck chases, a prison breakout and a few epic shootout scenes it's nothing short of breathtaking. They really focus on Sarah Connors journey here and Linda Hamilton plays her as a bad-ass who is always combat ready, doesn't trust anyone and can really defend herself. With all the action spectacle going on the film tackles a lot of themes like family, morals, friendship, war and even parenthood which is a testament to James Cameron's great writing. From impressive sound effects, editing, music and cinematography Terminator 2 is one of the best action sci-fi films ever made, it's one of the most adored films of the 90s and easily the best sequel ever made. It was clear from the start that Cameron wanted to make a franchise from his original material. It has a much bigger budget than the last film leaving them to splash out on all the resources at hand to create the T-1000. Using state of the art CGI they pull it off with incredible results. Seamlessly mixing practical effects with CG animations the effects still look marvellous to this day. From a haunting vision of a nuclear bomb to the make-up effects it all just looks perfect.