- DIRECTOR:
James Cameron
- ACTORS:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton
- PLOT:
Two cyborgs travel back in time to 1995, one (Schwarzenegger) to save a young future revolutionary (Furlong) and the other (Patrick) to assassinate him and his mother (Hamilton).
- EVALUATION:
If the original Terminator is Appetite for Destruction, this one reminded me more of the the unnecessary covers and baroque excesses of the Use Your Illusion albums.
- WRITING:
Not nearly as sharp as the first film with more expository narration and awful slang than I would like.
- FILMING:
Cameron still films action setpieces like nobody else, and the multiple chase sequences involving semis still hold up.
- BEST PART:
Probably the escape from the mental institution, although the frozen T-1000 comes pretty close.
- TRIVIA:
The scene in which the T-1000 imitates Sarah Connor was performed by Linda Hamilton and her twin sister.
- STINGER:
The Terminator gives a thumbs-up as it dies.
