I am sorry to say it. In spite
of its great popularity and Academy Awards, Terminator 2 is a bad sequel.
As you can see from my articles on the subject, I think highly of the original Terminator. Deep themes, awesome
hero, exciting action: great movie. And, it seems like a sequel, while not necessary, could be a fine thing to
have. Plenty of things are there to be explored: what is John Connor like and
what does he do? How did Sarah make out? How did people survive the bombs? How
did the war with the machines start? Any number of things.
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Terminator 2 gives us replies to
a few of these questions. For instance: “John Connor is a screwed up, whiny
thief”, and “Sarah Connor became a militaristic sociopath, essentially selling
her body for survival training and neglecting her son”.
