Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

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	Year of first release: 1991
	Director: James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic, Avatar)
	Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Predator, Conan the Barbarian), Linda Hamilton (Dante's Peak), Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick (Sons of Anarchy TV-series, Spy Kids)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF, Action
	Conditions of visioning: 18.08.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A decade after she escaped the attack by a Terminator sent from the future to eliminate her unborn son John, Sarah Connor (Hamilton) has now trained him (Furlong) well but she is locked in a psychiatric hospital. That is until the same Terminator (Schwarzenegger) appears again.
Review: This is one of the very few movies (with Jurassic Park) that I saw when it went out in a cinema before the age of 17, because then the closest theater was 30 kilometers away. And it did a very strong impression on me, probably influencing my taste in movies for years to come. Such special effects had never been seen before (I had forgotten T2 in my review of Jurassic Park) and the movie was more than satisfying the fans of the original The Terminator, making T2 rise to the top 3 of the greatest movie sequels. I love The Terminator for the originality of its story and the dead-seriousness with which it is told, but the sequel brought Action movie-making to another level, especially during those early 90's which turned out to mark the end of the era of pure Action movies. Having seen the movie many times, I am not anymore surprised by the turn of events (not really a spoiler: Schwarzenegger is the good guy in this one) but at the time it was an awesome surprise. The movie is filled with other brilliant ideas by Cameron: transforming the waitress Sarah Connor into a one-woman commando, changing the future with Miles Dyson, Robert Patrick as the T000, the addition of a touch of humour and the rigid character of the Terminator... And of course all of this is perfectly filmed and edited. Terminator 2 is definitely a Masterpiece in its genre. I have watched the Collector Edition approved by Cameron, which adds a few interesting scenes that slow down the rhythm a bit and change the movie with respect to the memory I had from its theatrical release. Some humorous scenes around the rigidity of the Terminator are also new and a bit out of tone. I found the sound mixing not so well done on this Blu-ray edition, I constantly had to play with the volume in order not to be deafened by the action scenes while being able to hear the dialogs in the others.
Rating: 9 /10