Review of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) by Jacob — 14 Dec 2014
Terminator 2: Judgement Day does its best to keep this familiar scenario fresh. There are some surprises, fun bits of action, interesting relationships between characters especially between John and the T100.
and the effects on the villain are great. With all that said though this is still a nonstop action movie that is remarkably similar to the first. The film overdoes it in the action, recycles some plot elements, and isn’t as paced as well as its predecessor.
The film gets a pass though as it doesn’t suck. With a film having the exact same premise and in some cases being strikingly similar to the last Terminator film it would’ve been so easy for this to feel like a lazy rehash especially with the overblown action but it handled it well.
Had the film really delved deeper into the characters and its idea of controlling fate this could’ve been a pretty good movie and maybe even surprised the first. As it is its ok. I’m glad I saw that but the excessive non-stop action and at times too familiar story prevented me from getting as invested in this film as the first one.
This review of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) was written by Jacob on 14 Dec 2014.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day has generally received very positive reviews.
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