Terminator 2: Judgement Day

James Cameron, USA, 1991, 136 minutes

In the future, the machines took over. But a man called John Connor organised people into a group who blew up the big computer and saved the world. Unfortunately the computer saw them coming and sent a tough-nutter robot which looked like Arnie Schwarzenegger back in time to kill John Connor's mum and stop him ever being born. But John found out and sent another guy after the robot. This guy met John's mum, shagged her and helped to blow up the robot, but it survived and killed him. John's mum eventually crushed it, and later she found out she was pregnant with John. That's what The Terminator was about.

Back in the future again, John was going to smash the time machine, but then he found out that the big computer had sent an even tougher robot after him when he was a kid. That is, presumably he knew already, but...uh, anyway, he reprogrammed another robot that looked like Arnie and sent it back after that robot that was trying to kill him as a kid. Just a sec - why didn't the computer send that Arnie one back in time as well to help one of the other ones? No, wait a minute...

Look, the point is that this film features Arnie as a tough-nutter robot trying to save this kid from an even tougher robot that can change its shape and do some other really nasty things. It's really good. You should come and see it. The guy who made it is Jim Cameron, the same one that made the sequel to that film about the alien that chased people in a spaceship. That was a good one too. He had these tough-nutter soldiers with big guns go after tons of aliens, but the aliens nearly wiped them out. But then this woman went looking for this other kid...

Look, just come and see it. You'll like it. It's dead good.

Review by Gavin Inglis
Taken from EUFS Programme 1992-93