Such a frustrating disappointment

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Arnold Schwarzenegger brings to life one of the best movies of all time! A solid 10/10 movie that brings back from the previous first instalment something new to experience. Once the antagonist, now the protagonist as the T-800. Schwarzenegger's mission; to go back in time in aid by the leader of the Resistance, an adult John Connor to protect the young boy that will one day bring good against the machines in many years to come. As a boy, he goes on an adventure with the watchful eye of the guardian protagonist T-800, being pursued by the evil, grievous T-1000 who is sent to kill him. Linda Hamilton returns as the defender's mother, Sarah Connor, who, they break out from a mental institute believing that the machines are real and that she has seen it from the first instalment. As the three go on an adventure, they soon learn that they are not alone, and the T-800 must put everything into his power to NOT let this boy be killed so that the future becomes altered. The boy... must be kept alive at all cost! The movie bring tears to its epic final moments of its screen-time, sacrifices are made, giving the audience something enjoyable to watch, along with popcorn, thrill-seeking excitement. The Terminator really brings the father-figure to young John Connor.Simply one of the best films I've ever seen, and one of my favourite movies of all time! It is a well-earn treat that Terminator fans are given by the fantastic and mind-blowing film director, James Cameron. It's a must-see movie and simply one of the best motion pictures ever put on screen. It's more than watchable, it's to remember for the rest of millennia in cinema history!

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.

It was just so bunched with action that I didn't really want to keep watching.

Better than the first Terminator. The action scenes are on par, but the visual effects are obviously superior and so is the makeup. Technically, this is a perfectly made movie on every aspect of film making. It's script is strong, but not perfect like the original. The timeline is confused as to what year the present scenes take place (1994 or 1995?) and there are few questions about the story that aren't answered, but other than that, flawless movie making.