To be able to play dumb through all this is not exactly a memorable achievement but to play nice as well is. It's like having one false arm tied around your back, but he does it all the same, even when half his face has been blown away, bullet marks riddle his chest and there is not much left of various protuberances. The nice terminator throws everything but the kitchen sink at the nasty one, only to find his enemy getting up again in a most peculiar way, but meanwhile has been instructed by his young charge not to go around killing on sight but simply to temporarily disable his foes. This one can look like an LA policeman (a terrifying enough prospect) but is actually made of a metal that can be melted down and re-formed at will. Now, separated from her son, she is incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital and keeping fit in her cell in preparation for a global disaster nobody else believes in.Įven her street-smart son doubts his mother's doomsday scenario until he becomes the target of T-1000, a new advanced terminator programmed to bump him off. This is 10 years after a pregnant Sarah Connor has driven off into the Mexican desert, presupposing a sequel. This time round, Schwarzenegger is essentially the hero of the story, a re-programmed but now out-of-date cyborg sent off to protect the child, aged 11, who can save the world from the rogue computer Skynet and a judgment day which could involve nuclear devastation. What must Steve Reeves and the loincloth brigade be thinking today? He now has more work, for more pay (Dollars 15 million). In the first Terminator, he had 18 lines of dialogue, 74 words and killed a huge quantity of bit players and extras. All this is very much in the film's favour, even if the director's pleas that he has made a caring, peace-orientated sequel to the first film seem a little like whistling over the exhausted bodies of the hundreds of technicians he has employed to build and then destroy practically everything in sight.Īs for Arnold Schwarzenegger, now the biggest star in the business in more ways than one, his new, gentler image, of the cyborg who gets to care, is only an extension of Twins and a screen persona first formed by Pumping Iron, in which his modest smile filled half the screen as a non-macho professional muscleman.

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