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Starring:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton, Jenette Goldstein, S. Epatha Merkerson, Castulo Guerra, Xander Berkeley, Colin Patrick Lynch, Danny Cooksey, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, Robert Winley, Peter Schrum, Ken Gibbel
Directed By:
James Cameron
Written By:
James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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Movie Review by Jarrod
July 18th, 2007
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With 'T2' James Cameron surpasses his original Terminator movie, and outdoes himself in terms of special effects and relentless action. Schwarzenegger returns, but this time not as the assassin, but rather the protector, of John Connor (Furlong), now a rebellious teenager in foster care; his mother Sarah (Hamilton) is in a mental hospital, since everyone thinks she is crazy. John is being pursued by the seemingly indestructible T-1000 (Patrick), made out of liquid metal, able to come back together after being blown in half, able to assume most any form, and to mold its appendages into deadly weapons, and moving with dogged, tireless persistence in order to complete its mission. The T-1000 is an amazing creation. Cameron experimented with a similar creature in The Abyss, though it was made out of water. Now, he explores the infallibility of this design, and compares it to the older, outdated technology present in Schwarzenegger, an assembly line model of the same thing that came after Sarah in The Terminator. Again, the paradoxes are abundant, but to discuss them would be to draw attention to something the film is content to ignore, because it is totally irrelevant, secondary to the spectacular stunts and explosions and chases that we see. It doesn't let up for a minute, and again Schwarzenegger proves how much fun he can have with this role, and a truly excellent Furlong, who realizes that this hulking machine is programmed to obey him, and he orders him to stop killing people, so he resorts only to injuring or temporarily immobilizing them. John also starts to see the Terminator as sort of a father figure, but can one form a connection to something that exhibits no emotion or feeling of any kind? At least John is reunited with his mother, who slings bullets with the best of them, in order to save her son. Hamilton emerges as a fierce, exciting, badass heroine, with lots of energy and attitude.
Patrick is a perfect villain, never changing his facial expression, but always menacing. It is perhaps inevitable that the T-1000 will be defeated, but there are moments in which we think it just is not possible, could not be possible, considering it is resistant to just about everything, except apparently to extreme heat and cold. But, the forces of evil must always fail, and there could not be a better or more appropriate ending, though Terminator 3 betrayed any kind of closure we get from this movie. Cameron had nothing to do with that, though. I think he was satisfied with just two movies. So am I. This is undoubtedly the best in the series.
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