Terminator 2-Judgment Day Complete Collection (Blu-ray) (1991)

"Brutally beautiful, darkly comic sci-fi...that is macho in the extreme, but has a female sensibility at heart...Just try and stop it.  Joe Brown, The Washington Post
"...one hell of a wild ride, a Twilight of the Gods that takes no prisoners and leaves audiences desperate for mercy.  Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"...imagines things you wouldn't even be likely to dream and gets these visions onto the screen with a seamlessness that's mind-boggling.  Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"A great movie...A pop epiphany, marking that commercially creative point where the power of Hollywood meets the purity of myth.  Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail
"As with "Aliens," director James Cameron has again taken a first rate science fiction film and crafted a sequel that's in some ways more impressive...  Variety

Editor's Note A decade after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) destroyed the original Terminator, a second unstoppable killing machine (Arnold Schwarzenegger) arrives from the post-apocalyptic year 2029. But this time his mission is to stop an even deadlier Terminator, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), made entirely of shape-shifting liquid metal and determined to kill young John Connor (Edward Furlong), the future leader of the human resistance. Sarah, John, and the Terminator counter by going after the scientist responsible for developing Skynet, the computer system fated to destroy humanity, leading to an explosive and spectacular clash with the fate of humanity in the balance. Whereas James Cameron's original THE TERMINATOR was a low-budget marvel of efficiency and speed, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY is an action-packed blockbuster with some of the most amazing stunts ever filmed and ground-breaking, Academy Award-winning special effects. Star Schwarzenegger was paid in the form of a $15 million dollar jet to revisit his most famous role as the Terminator, this time made kinder and gentler against the silent, relentless T-1000. One of the most popular films of the 1990s, James Cameron's action masterpiece is both a thoughtful look at violence in human nature and an exciting, nonstop thrill ride.

	Edward Furlong
	Joe Morton
	Robert Patrick
	Linda Hamilton
	Jenette Goldstein
	Earl Boen
	Arnold Schwarzenegger
	Castulo Guerra
	S. Epatha Merkerson
	Xander Berkeley
	Stan Winston - Special Effects
	Conrad Buff - Editor
	Brad Fiedel - Composer
	Marlene Stewart - Costume Designer
	Mark Goldblatt - Editor
	William Wisher - Screenwriter
	James Cameron - Producer
	B.J. Rack - Producer
	Mario Kassar - Producer
	Joseph Nemec III - Production Designer
	Gale Anne Hurd - Producer
	Stephanie Austin - Producer
	Adam Greenberg - Director of Photography
	James Cameron - Screenwriter
	Industrial Light and Magic - Special Effects
	Richard A. Harris - Editor
	James Cameron - Director

Rolling Stone
"...The visual and makeup effects are state-of-the art..." 08/08/1991 p.78

New York Times
"...A swift, exciting special effects epic....[Schwarzenegger acts with] perfect aplomb..."| 07/03/1991 p.C11

Entertainment Weekly
"...Cameron overturned expectations....A very strange but very real family..." -- Rating: A- 01/13/1995 pp.66-8

USA Today
"...When it comes to setting off fireworks, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a heck of a blowtorch....[T2] unloads a stunning arsenal of truly special effects..." 07/03/1991 p.1D

Los Angeles Times
"...TERMINATOR 2 is well-stocked with the kind of wised-up, shoot-from-the-hip wit that characterized the first film....This is one director who really knows how to direct..." 07/03/1991 p.F1

Rolling Stone 8 of 10
A kinder, gentler terminator. What an affront. In 1984, director-writer James Cameron gave Arnold Schwarzenegger the role of his career, as a killer cyborg sent from the future to murder Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) before she gives birth to a son who will lead a revolt against the ruling army of machines. "I'll be back," said Schwarzenegger. Now he is back, but reprogrammed as a goody-goody to protect Sarah's son, John Connor, played by fourteen-year-old Edward Furlong. The bad Terminator (Robert Patrick) is a newer model -- a hunk of liquid metal in human form (he looks like an Oscar with ears) -- out to waste John and clear the way for nuclear war on August 29th, 1997...John doesn't like killing, so Ah-nold's Mr. Softie merely shoots the bad guys in the kneecaps. He even shows compassion. "What's wrong with your eyes?" he asks John as the boy cries. Soon he's the first cyborg to learn the meaning of a tear...Schwarzenegger has fun saying things like "Chill out, dickwad" and "Hasta la vista, baby." But the star's quips are predictable, the stock in trade of an icon for hire. It's Cameron's show; he's the reigning king of movie pow, with dark wit and a poet's eye for mayhem. T2 cost a reported $100 million, and you can actually see where the money went...Still, the film's relentless pummeling grows wearying at 135 minutes. The first Terminator, a half-hour shorter, was leaner and meaner. Cameron and co-writer William Wisher saddle the game Hamilton with too many rants about peace. Cameron is not skilled at preaching (a similar moral stance marred the climax of The Abyss). And the good Terminator's cornball farewell feels out of place for Schwarzenegger and the film. It's the equivalent of making a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs in which Hannibal the Cannibal becomes a vegetarian. - Peter Travers

Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
In "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," the future once again comes hunting to kill John Connor. Though the world after the nuclear holocaust of 1997 is ruled by machines, a single man can still make a difference - and that man is Connor, who is a youngster as the movie opens but is destined to grow up into the leader of the human resistance movement against the cyborgs...From the opening chase scene - in which young Connor, on a fast motorcycle, outruns T-1000, at the wheel of a semi - "Terminator 2" develops a close relationship between the young boy and the good Terminator. Before long young Connor even discovers that Schwarzenegger is programmed to follow his instructions, and so he orders the awesome machine to stop killing people. The result is a neat twist on the tradition of the Schwarzenegger special effects film; this time, instead of corpses littering the screen, the Arnold character shoots to maim or frighten...Schwarzenegger's genius as a movie star is to find roles that build on, rather than undermine, his physical and vocal characteristics. Here he becomes the straight man in a human drama - and in a human comedy, too, as the kid tells him to lighten up and stop talking like a computer. After the kid's mother is freed from the mental home, the threesome work together to defeat T-1000, while at the same time creating an unlikely but effective family unit...The key element in any action picture, I think, is a good villain..."Terminator 2" has one, along with an intriguing hero and fierce heroine, and a young boy who is played by Furlong with guts and energy. The movie responds to criticisms of excessive movie violence by tempering the Terminator's blood lust, but nobody, I think, will complain that it doesn't have enough action. - Roger Ebert