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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (also referred to as simply
Terminator 2,
T2 and
Judgement Day) is a 1991 American science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong. It is the sequel to the 1984 film
The Terminator, and the second installment in the
Terminator franchise.
Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her ten-year-old son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John Connor and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human resistance. A second, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in
time to protect John.
After a troubled pre-production characterized by legal disputes, Mario Kassar of Carolco Pictures
emerged with the franchise's property rights in early 1990. This paved
the way for the completion of the screenplay by a Cameron-led production
team, and the October 1990 start of a shortened 186-day filming
schedule. The production of
Terminator 2 required a $102 million
budget making it the most expensive film made up to that point. Much of
the film's massive budget was spent on filming and special effects. The
film was released on July 3, 1991, in time for the U.S. Independence Day weekend.
The film's visual effects saw breakthroughs in computer-generated imagery, including the first use of natural human motion for a computer-generated character and the first partially computer-generated main character.
[3] Terminator 2 was a critical and commercial success and influenced popular culture, especially the use of visual effects in films.
[4] It received many accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects.
[5] The highest-grossing film of 1991 and Schwarzenegger's career,
Terminator 2 has since been ranked by several publications such as the American Film Institute as one of the greatest action films, science fiction films and s
equels of all time.
story
In this sequel set eleven years after "The Terminator," young John
Connor (Edward Furlong), the key to civilization's victory over a
future robot uprising, is the target of the shape-shifting T-1000
(Robert Patrick), a Terminator sent from the future to kill him. Another
Terminator, the revamped T-8
00 (Arnold
Schwarzenegger), has been sent back to protect the boy. As John and his
mother (Linda Hamilton) go on the run with the T-800, the boy forms an
unexpected bond with the robot
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