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Terminator 2: Judgment Day, commonly abbreviated as T2, is a 1991 action-science fiction film directed, co-written and co-produced by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick. It picks up around ten years after the events of The Terminator and follows Sarah Connor, her 10-year-old son John and a protector from the future (as in the first film), as they try to prevent Judgment Day, a day in the future when machines will begin to exterminate the human race.

T2 was a significant box office and highly praised critical success. It had an impact on popular culture and is considered by many to be highly influential in the genres of action and science fiction. The film's visual effects include many breakthroughs in computer-generated effects, marking the first use of natural human motion for a CG character and the first computer-generated main character. The film won several awards including four Academy Awards for makeup, sound mixing, sound editing and visual effects.

Eleven years after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) destroyed the original Terminator that was programmed to kill her, two men arrive in Los Angeles from the year 2029. The first is a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) identical to the one that Sarah first encountered, while the second is an unknown man (Robert Patrick) who assumes the identity of a police officer. John Connor (Edward Furlong) is now an adolescent living with foster parents. He has had an unusual childhood, with his mother Sarah constantly preparing him to fulfill his destiny as the leader of the future human resistance. Sarah's experiences have made her tougher and more vigilant, but also desperate to warn humanity about the coming apocalypse. After attempting to bomb a computer factory, Sarah is arrested and remanded to the Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane under the supervision of Dr. Silberman.

Meanwhile, the Terminator and the unknown man locate John Connor in a mall. The Terminator saves John's life from the unknown man, who is revealed to be another Terminator. After a chase through the L.A. storm drain channels, the original Terminator manages to escape with John on his motorcycle. The Terminator explains that he is reprogrammed by the future John Connor to protect and obey John's younger self. The other Terminator is a T-1000, an advanced new prototype programmed to kill John. It is made of "a mimetic polyalloy", a liquid metal that allows it to take the shape and appearance of anything it touches.

Upon learning that the T-1000 will likely kill Sarah and then mimic her to lure John, John orders the Terminator to help free her. Initially, Sarah is terrified by the Terminator; but after seeing it fight off the T-1000, she accepts that they need its help. As they escape the city, the Terminator informs John and Sarah about Skynet, the sentient computer system that will nearly wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic nuclear attack called "Judgment Day". Sarah learns that the man most directly responsible for Skynet is Miles Bennett Dyson (Joe Morton), a Cyberdyne Systems engineer working on a revolutionary new microprocessor that will form the basis for Skynet.

Sarah, John and the Terminator eventually arrive in the desert at the camp of Enrique Salceda, Sarah's old friend, who has preserved an underground weapons cache in case of war. Sarah plans to take John and flee into Mexico. While at this camp, the Terminator begins to learn about human emotions as it bonds more closely with John. Sarah has a horrific nightmare of a nuclear explosion and wakes up with strengthened resolve. After she leaves abruptly, John and the Terminator see the words "No Fate", carved into a table earlier by Sarah, and deduce that she is planning to change the future by killing Dyson. At Dyson's home, Sarah shoots Dyson in the arm but finds herself unable to kill him in front of his family. After John and the Terminator arrive, they inform Dyson of the consequences of his research and convince him that they must destroy everything related to his chip design, including the CPU and arm from the previous Terminator.

Sarah, John, the Terminator, and Dyson break into the Cyberdyne Systems building and retrieve the parts from the first Terminator. While preparing explosives to destroy all of Dyson's research, security alerts the police, who show up in force. The Terminator manages to destroy most of the police vehicles without breaking his earlier promise to John to refrain from killing. The SWAT team mortally wounds Dyson, who stays behind to trigger the detonator. Sarah, John and the Terminator escape in a SWAT van with the T-1000 in pursuit, first in a helicopter and then in a liquid nitrogen truck. The truck crashes into a steel mill, causing the tank to rupture and spill liquid nitrogen everywhere, freezing the T-1000. The Terminator shatters him, whereupon the pieces thaw and reassemble. The T-1000 threatens to kill Sarah unless she calls to John; but the Model 101 intervenes. The Terminators fight hand-to-hand, with the T-1000 stabbing the Model 101 through the power cell with a metal pole, deactivating him. The T-1000, now disguised as Sarah, goes to hunt John but is revealed when the real Sarah shoots him. The Terminator reactivates itself using an alternate power source and arrives on a rotating gear. He fires the last grenade into the T-1000, causing it to deform and fall into the molten steel below.

Having destroyed the T-1000, John throws the parts from the first Terminator into the steel; but the Terminator says that he too must be destroyed to prevent his technology from being used to create Skynet. Since the Terminator cannot self-terminate, Sarah must lower him into the steel using a winch. As the Terminator says goodbye, Sarah shakes his hand in a gesture of respect, and John tearfully begs him to stay. The Terminator reveals a newfound understanding of human emotions but insists that he must be destroyed. As he sinks into the molten steel, he gives a "thumbs up" signal. The film ends with a voice-over from Sarah, in which she describes her new optimism regarding the future.

Guinea, 2008, Stan Winston's films

Guinea, 2008, Stan Winston's films

Mali, 1994, Arnold Schwarzenegger