Terminator 2: Judgment Day (film)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (commonly abbreviated as T2) is a 1991 action/science fiction film. It was directed, co-produced, and co-written by James Cameron, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick. The first sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, it picks up ten years after the events of the first film. It follows Sarah Connor, her 10-year-old son John, and a protector from the future (as in the first film), as they try to prevent Judgment Day, a day in the future when machines will start to exterminate the human race.
T2 was a significant box office and critical
success. It had an impact on popular culture, and is considered by many to be
hugely influential in the genres of action and science fiction. The film's visual
effects include many breakthroughs in computer-generated special effects, marking
the first use of natural human motion for a CG character and the first computer
generated main character. The film won several awards including four Academy Awards
for makeup, sound mixing, sound editing and visual effects.
Plot
Ten years after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) destroyed the original Terminator that was programmed to kill her, two men arrive in Los Angeles from the year 2029. The first is a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) identical to the one that Sarah first encountered, while the second is an unknown man (Robert Patrick).
John Connor (Edward Furlong) is now living with foster parents. He has grown up being told by his mother that he would someday lead the remnants of the human race to victory against the machines. Sarah's experiences have significantly changed who she is, making her tougher and more vigilant, but also more desperate to warn humanity about the threat of the future man vs. machine war — revelations that lead authorities to commit her to a mental institution, Pescadero State Hospital.
Meanwhile, the Terminator and the unknown
man eventually locate John Connor. According to the filmmakers, this was intended
as a crucial plot twist: the unknown man is not a human protector, as the filmmakers
wanted the audience to assume based on the first film. The killing machine from
the first film is now the protector, and the other man is another Terminator programmed
to kill John. When the good Terminator rescues John, he reveals what is happening.
He is a Model 101, reprogrammed by the future John Connor to act as his protector.
The other Terminator is a T-1000, programmed to kill him. It is made of mimetic
polyalloy, essentially liquid metal, allowing it to emulate anyone or anything
of equal size, except "complex machines" like "guns and explosives"
because they "have chemicals, moving parts." It can, however, form "knives
and stabbing weapons."
When John learns that the T-1000 will copy Sarah and then kill her, he and the Terminator go to rescue her. Initially, Sarah is terrified by it, but after seeing it fight off the T-1000, she accepts that they need its help. As they escape the city, the Terminator tells her about the future of Skynet, the sentient computer that will destroy humans. He tells her about its creator, Miles Bennett Dyson (Joe Morton), who designs a learning computer that goes online on August 4, 1997. It begins learning at a geometric rate, and becomes self-aware at 2:14 am on August 29, 1997, launching nuclear missiles that destroy most of humanity.
Eventually, Sarah, John, and the Terminator arrive in the desert at Enrique Salceda's camp, who has preserved an underground weapons cache in the event that the war actually happens. Sarah plans to take John and flee over the border into Mexico. While at the camp, she realizes that by killing Dyson, she can prevent Skynet from being invented, preventing the war with the machines. After she leaves, John and the Terminator figure out what she is going to do and take off after her. At Dyson's home, Sarah attempts to shoot him, but when she misses, she finds herself unable to kill him up close in front of his family. When John and the Terminator arrive, they inform Dyson of the consequences of his research. They convince him that they must destroy everything related to his chip design, including the CPU and arm from the previous Terminator.
Sarah, John, the Terminator, and Dyson break into the Cyberdyne building and retrieve the parts from the first Terminator. While preparing explosives to destroy everything else, security alerts the police who show up in force. When the SWAT team enters the building, they fatally shoot Dyson who stays behind to trigger the detonator.
They escape in a SWAT van, with the T-1000 in pursuit, first in a helicopter, then a liquid nitrogen truck. The truck crashes into a steel mill, causing the tank to rupture and liquid nitrogen to spill everywhere, freezing the T-1000. Even though the Terminator shatters him, the pieces thaw and reassemble. The T-1000 and Model 101 begin to fight hand to hand, with the T-1000 stabbing him through the power cell with a metal pole, deactivating him. The T-1000, disguised as Sarah, goes to hunt John. As John is confronted by two Sarahs, the Terminator, who had reactivated itself using an alternate power source, shoots the T-1000 with a grenade launcher causing it to deform and overbalance, falling into a vat of molten metal, destroying it.
After John throws the parts from the first Terminator into the molten metal, the Terminator tells him that he too must be destroyed to prevent his technology from being used to create Skynet. He tells Sarah that he cannot self-terminate, and she must lower him into the steel. As he goes down, he reaches up with a thumbs up, the last thing to go under. The movie ends with a dark highway at night, and Sarah's repetition of the phrase that Reese told her in the first film: "The future is not set."
Tagline:
It's nothing personal.
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator
Linda Hamilton - Sarah Connor
Edward Furlong - John Connor
Robert Patrick - T-1000
Earl Boen - Dr. Silberman
Joe Morton - Miles
Dyson
S. Epatha Merkerson - Tarissa Dyson
Castulo
Guerra - Enrique Salceda
Danny Cooksey - Tim
Jenette Goldstein - Janelle Voight
Xander Berkeley - Todd Voight
Leslie Hamilton Gearren - Twin Sarah
Ken Gibbel - Douglas
Robert
Winley - Cigar-Smoking Biker
Peter Schrum - Lloyd (as Pete Schrum)
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