Plot;
The year is 1995 and John Connor (Edward Furlong)is now 10 years old. He is living with his foster parents now due to his mother being in a mental hospital after attempting to blow up a computer factory. We see the terminator (Schwarzenegger) arrive outside a biker bar where he takes the clothes from a biker and takes his bike. He then drives off in search for John Connor. Then another flash of lightening is seen and another person appears, he knocks out a police officer who investigates and takes his clothes and drives off in the police cruiser.
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| Bad to the bone. |
The unknown person wearing the police uniform goes to John Connor's foster parents to ask where John is. The foster parents say he is at the shopping mall with his friend, he then takes a picture of John and walks away. The Terminator is now at the mall looking for John. The unknown man in the police uniform then asks John's friend if he has seen him, his friend lies. John runs off and the man gives chase, when suddenly John stops in his tracks when he sees the terminator. The Terminator tells him to get down and he opens fire on the man, we then realize the man in the uniform is not human but is also a terminator. He grabs John and he runs away. The other terminator gives chase to John, The Terminator grabs John and puts him on his bike just as the other terminator goes to ram him.
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| Get Down... |
The Terminator explains to John that he is here to protect him, he also goes onto explain about the other terminator which is the T-1000 and has been sent back in time to kill John. The Terminator explains that the T-1000 is made of liquid metal and can turn itself into anything it touches except for bombs and guns. John fearing that the T-1000 will kill and copy Sarah (Linda Hamilton) they go to the Mental hospital to break her out. They bump into Sarah trying to escape after she hurts Dr. Silberman and some of his staff. They all escape in a car from the T-1000. The Terminator tells John and Sarah that Skynet will make a nuclear war on Judgment Day and will create the machines. Sarah then learns that the main person involved in creating the terminator is a man named Miles Dyson, he is currently engineering the microprocessor that runs the terminator.
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| Come with me if you want to live... |
They go to Sarah's old friend to gather weapons and flee to Mexico but when Sarah has a terrible dream about the nuclear explosion she wakes up and decides to go kill Dyson to stop Judgment Day. She shoots up his home and wounds him but she then realizes she can't kill him in front of his family she breaks down into tears. The Terminator and John arrive at the home and tell Dyson all about the consequences of his work. Dyson then tells them that they have been working on the damaged CPU and right arm of the terminator as research. They convince him that these items need to be destroyed, they then break into Cyberdyne and get the arm and chip. The police then arrive and shoot Dyson, he decides to stay behind and triggers the explosives in the lab.
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| I'll be back... |
The T-1000 then tracks them down and corners them in a steel mill. The T-1000 battles the terminator until the T-1000 rams a steel pole into the the terminator forcing it to shutdown. Then suddenly the terminator appears back online due to having a emergency back up power supply. The Terminator then comes out of nowhere to fire a grenade launcher into the T-1000 exploding it out of shape, it falls into the molten steel and gets destroyed. The Terminator tells John to throw the chip and arm into the molten steel. The Terminator then tells Sarah that it must be terminated also and she must lower it into the molten steel. John cries while the terminator is lowered into the steel, it gives the thumbs up to John. Sarah and John are relieved that the ordeal is over.
Extras;
This release I own is the 2006 US Lionsgate release only offers two commentary tracks. The first track is a James Cameron and one of the writers of the film and the other is a huge 25 cast members commentary which is a very good listen.
2/5
Picture Quality;
I opted to own this release after seeing how bad the skynet edition looked. This release may have a more natural look to it but most of the time it seems flat. The transfer is definitely old and this film deserves a better release, hopefully since the first terminator film got a 4K remaster we will see this get it's ultimate release.
2.5/5
Audio Quality
The audio quality surprisingly on this disc is not lossless. So it is not great, the dialogue is clear but there is some instances of hissing.
2/5
Overall there hasn't been a great release yet of T2 on Blu-ray. All releases have fallen short one way or the other. I am now hoping since Terminator: Genesis is being released next year we may see another re release of T2 and hopefully a James Cameron approved remaster. The film seems as if it were filmed yesterday, the special effects have aged well and the film never gets boring. Definitely a sequel worth watching and on the same level as the first film.
Highly Recommend!
Andrew
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