Terminator 2: Day of Reckoning – Three Billion Lives Extinguished August 29, 1997

The survivors of the nuclear heat …
named this war ‚Day of Reckoning.‘
They lived only to face a new nightmare –
a war against the machines.
The computer that controlled these machines – Skynet …
sent two Terminators back in time.
Their goal : To destroy the leader of the human resistance.
John Connor, my son.
The first Terminator was programmed to attack me …
in 1984 …
before John was born.
It failed.
The second was designed to attack John directly
when he was a baby.
As before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior
to protect John.
The question was which one would get to him first.

With such a glorious and depressing beginning, the second episode of The Terminator begins, a doomsday when the future, the past, the life is decided. Where old experiences will come back to us, and where we would not be living in 2003, because back in 1997, at the end of the holiday season, the Atomic Apocalypse began, when the Skynet computer sent a few nukes to Russia, and Russia, thinking the Americans had attacked, sent a few nukes to the US, wiped out humanity, and the few survivors stood up against the machines and fought back.

And one of the most important characters against the robot army was John Connor, a scarred, skilled soldier who is skilled and adept at keeping humans hoping that humanity will survive in the end. But if we go all the way back to The Matrix, and figure out the connections between these films, maybe it really will end up that the machines will enslave us. But let's go back a few years before the apocalypse, when the story of this film takes place. As is

You may know the film's main positive and negative character, the Terminator, as a machine. The T-800 is really just a machine fitted with organic skin, whereas the T-1000 is a machine based on liquid metal. The older T-800 is the positive one, trying to save the most important person in humanity, and the T-1000, on the other hand, is the harsh bad guy trying to kill this John Connor, whose life is at stake. And so we have the year about 1991, when both Terminators shift in time to the past and appear and go about their purposeful task of killing or saving John Connor. And so begins a fight for life, for lives. Knife fights, point and shoot fights. Battles in different environments. In the future and in the present. In a computer arcade, a supermarket, the riverbed of a man-made sewer, the bowels of a madhouse, a computer company, even a foundry. We'll also enjoy the peace and quiet there, such as in the desert, in the parking lot, and at Foster John's house.

When Cameron says "Cameron," we know it's a pretty good movie, almost a cult film. Mainly, T2 is a groundbreaking film, the first to use computers to such an extent. These are not simple tricks, these are complex tricks, without which this film cannot be made. The main sources of the tricks are the various morphing processes of the negative terminator. Not just morphing from person to person, but into things, into a liquid state, into a freshly sharpened blade, with very killer tendencies. These qualities were the main reason T2 won four Oscars.

Major characters returned in T2, such as Saran Connor, J.C.'s mother played by Linda Hamilton, the T-800, played as usual by Arnold Schwarzenegger. These two actors reprised their roles. And well enough, Saran is no longer just a waitress where we fear for her life, as in the first film, but she is a skilled fighter for her rights, who is proficient with weapons, I would say martial arts. Unfortunately, because of her premonitions and opinions, she is locked up in an insane asylum, but she tries to escape and eventually does. And the T-800 is back again, with the same condition, the same hard features, and so she's just back. And let's not forget Edward Furlong, John Connor, who I would say plays his character, but I think it's a highlight for this actor. But he's starred in other films as well. The worst was Robert Patrick, who plays the T-1000, also without feeling, he's not really a good actor, so I haven't seen him elsewhere, in other films.

And to conclude, T2 is a groundbreaking film, at the time it was made, the most expensive and the highest quality. And a huge earner, too.

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