- Studio: TriStar Pictures
- Release Date: Jul 3, 1991
- Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
- Summary:
- Director: James Cameron
- Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Negative: 2 out of 16
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100Terminator 2 imagines things you wouldn't even be likely to dream and gets these visions onto the screen with a seamlessness that's mind-boggling. [3 July 1991, Daily Datebook, p.E1]
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80No-one can walk out of this and say they didn't see the whole hundred mil up there on the screen in exploding vehicles, wrecked buildings, monster effects and sheer sweaty action.
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60All the virtues of the original... are present here, though when Cameron tries to milk some sentiment out of the "personality" and fate of his top machine he comes up flat and empty, and the other characters are scarcely more interesting.
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30This tirelessly violent, ultimately exhausting film has the utter sincerity of all good science fiction, and a lot more flair than most, but it suffers from a certain confusion of purpose. In the end, it amounts to quite the pistol-packing plea for peace.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 54
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Mixed: 1 out of 54
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Negative: 1 out of 54
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