James Cameron's critically and commercially acclaimed sci-fi blockbuster is still an almost-perfect sequel, 33 years after its release.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 22, 2024

Terminator 2 was the perfect sequel as it gave bigger and better action sequences and chases and also changed things around to get the story going in a new direction

| Nov 15, 2024

Like a relentless T-800 on a mission, this film continues to dominate as the greatest action movie ever made. Nearly 25 years later, it remains a high-octane adrenaline rush that’s guaranteed to have grown men weeping by the third act.

| Aug 12, 2024

[Cameron's] showmanship is legendary, his capacity for orchestrating mayhem unparalleled. And Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a prime example.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 7, 2024

There is not a single rift under its metal shell and, after so many years, it still retains the groundbreaking spirit with the science fiction journey of the machine that learns the value of human empathy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 9, 2024

One of the best franchise sequels ever made.

| Sep 19, 2023

Bigger, bolder and slicker, T2 is one of the greatest sci-fi/action films of all time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 10, 2023

The movie amounts to one long, long chase scene, and damned if the American public isn't lapping it up as if it were something special.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 9, 2023

Aside from technological hubris, it's nothing out of this world. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 26, 2023

Amazing things happen in Terminator 2, things you've never seen in movies -- things you didn't know the movies could do.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2021

Its legacy still holds up today, thanks to all of those elements- the plot, the effects, the action, and that performance from its leading man. (30th anniversary)

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 16, 2021

While bigger isn't always better, writer/director James Cameron's follow-up is genuinely bigger and better in nearly every way.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 24, 2020

James Cameron's update of his sci-fi action classic is a great night at the movies. Just don't expect it to change your mind about 3D.

| Apr 16, 2019

Inarguably one of the greatest sequels ever made, Terminator 2 builds itself upon a few key ideas that upend the audience's expectations and work like gangbusters with industry-altering technological execution.

| Nov 2, 2018

No matter how bad the sequels get they can't undo the greatness of Terminator 2. This is a movie that will live forever.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

Cameron's vision makes the engine go and shows why he is one of the best blockbuster directors ever.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 10, 2018

Terminator 2 is genuinely reverential towards Arnold, gazing raptly upon his physical form and elevating his lack of affect to something like a Platonic ideal of masculinity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2018

T2 truly attains the test of time with a fabulous story connected with smart and effective special effects that complement the story.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 22, 2018

With Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Cameron has bested his own earlier effort with a sequel that takes the original themes, the darkly high-tech style and the cutting wit of his 1984 sci-fi hit The Terminator and pumps the energy up to kinetic overload.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2018

This time Mr. Heavy Metal is on the side of the good guys. Naturally, he isn't quite as much fun.

| Apr 27, 2018