Terminator 2: Judgement Day 4K Ultra Hd [Blu-ray]

This 3D-enhanced version of T2 offers an exceptional 3D experience, with breathtaking color and definition that truly bring this SF classic movie to life on my unmodified US 3D Blu-ray player, TV, and 3D LCD glasses. Produced for the Asian market, this disc features English dialogue but defaults to Japanese subtitles ON. Another reviewer did not find a way to turn these OFF. However, even without English labeling in the disc menu system, go to the disc's Subtitles Menu and deselect the active subtitle. If no subtitle language is selected, then subtitles will be OFF. When I purchased this 3D Blu-ray disc, the Japanese import was then the only one available new. Having found some Japanese import Blu-rays to be superior to the domestic US ones, I took a chance, and am glad I did, because the quality of this version is superb! Once you master the Japanese-language menu system on this disc, it does not impede your enjoyment of this film. Highly recommended.

It looks like it lumps all the Terminator 2 reviews together, so just to specify: This review is for the 3D bluray version that is available - It's hard to tell, but that actually is a Japanese bluray, even though everything on the front is English. But, if you have the right stuff, it doesn't matter that it's a Japanese bluray as it runs just fine with what I describe below. Just figured I'd clarify that, so on with the review... The movie speaks for itself with how awesome it is - I wouldn't be saying anything that hasn't already been said regardless of how much I praised the movie itself. It's one of the best movies ever made, plain-and-simple. What I wanted to focus on is reassuring anyone looking to watch this in the US that it does work just fine watching it through a PS4 with a PSVR1. So, to start: Even if you have a PSVR1, you still need to run that through a PS4 in order to watch this, or any 3D movie for that matter - A PS5 will not work. Why that is is because the PS4 is recognized as a '3D bluray player' while the PS5 is not - Due to this, 3D movies will not even run on a PS5 (it will simply come up with a message saying it isn't a 3D bluray player). This is an extremely unnecessary and stupid oversight on Sony's part, but it falls into the category of 'It is what it is', and it's best to know about these limitations so you don't order this and not be able to enjoy it. Also: The PSVR2 does not run 3D movies at all, probably largely because PSVR2s can only function with a PS5 which Sony didn't bother making compatible. If you still have a PS4 and PSVR1 from the US, this will run just fine. The default audio is the audio from the original movie (it's in English). Japanese subtitles are turned on by default, but it is as simple as pressing a button once the movie is playing to bring up the menu that's built into the PS4 (I believe you press square to bring it up) and you can disable the subtitles from there - After that, you're watching the exact same 3D movie that you could've (and may have) seen in 2017 in theaters in the US. And, again: It's easier to disable the subtitles once the movie is playing with the PS4 menu since all the bluray menus are in Japanese, but the PS4 menu will be in English. So, in short: You don't need to know any Japanese in order to figure this out - It's pretty obvious what to select to make the movie play, then you can disable the subtitles through an English menu. As for the 3D itself, it is extremely impressive and it's very trippy being able to see such an old movie in a new way. If you have a PS4, PSVR1, and the patience to sit down and watch a movie with a VR headset on, I'd highly recommend getting this. But, the main purpose of this review was to reassure those with a US PS4 and PSVR1 that it will run just as it did in theaters in 2017. Pretty awesome since they did such a limited run of the 3D blurays in the US that this movie is nearly impossible to find, and usually very expensive when you can find it. So, if you do pick this up, enjoy!

One of the greatest kids movies of all time. A boy and his robot - a classic trope.

Just like the original "Terminator," I can't imagine anyone reading this review, or looking at the Amazon entry and thinking about buying the film in it's "Ultimate Edition" DVD version, and not actually knowing what the film is about. The original "Terminator" became an icon; it entered our collective memories - "I'll be back!" - became a cultural phenomenon, a cinematic urban legend with a life all it's own, and "T2" is the next step in its evolution. And `evolution' is a good way of looking at it. "T2" is not some cheesy installment in a bloated cinematic franchise, designed to generate mega-$'s for all concerned, while shortchanging the viewer with a bland or worthless story line, cardboard FX, and Z-list performances. No, "T2" is a legitimate continuation of the original "Terminator," creating more of the backstory and mythology of the "Terminator" universe, and taking us closer to the day when Skynet achieves consciousness and decides to wage its war of global extermination against Mankind. In fact, the genesis of the "T2" story can be seen in one of the deleted scenes contained on the "Terminator, Special Edition" disc; Sarah Connor, tired of being hunted, decides to take the fight to Skynet's creator, the Cyberdyne Corporation, which, as shown in yet another deleted scene, is where the climactic fight against the original terminator took place! And this, literally, is the key to "T2." When the original terminator was crushed in the press, the company salvaged its CPU/chip, damaged and inoperable, plus one arm. It's the research done on the CPU that leads to the computing breakthrough that leads to the creation of Skynet, which created the terminators in the first place! And just as Skynet sent a terminator back through time to ensure John Connor couldn't interfere with its plans, Sarah Connor attempts to stop the creation of Skynet itself in the present... you see where this is going? There're probably a couple of pretty nasty time-travel paradoxes involved in all of this - maybe we should ask Dr Who! - but it doesn't matter, the story carries you effortlessly along and doesn't let you start going `round and `round in those kinds of ever diminishing circles! The basic set-up is as follows, having failed in killing Sarah Connor in the original "Terminator," Skynet dispatches yet another terminator, a state of the art T-1000, this time to kill John Connor while he's a young teenager. And just as before, the adult John Connor dispatches a guardian, in the shape of an old T-800 terminator, reprogrammed to protect him at all costs. And it's the difference between the two terminators that is one of the main joys of the film. The T-1000 is a shape-shifting "liquid metal" creation, able to morph into almost any guise it needs, as long as the end result is the same basic size, or volume, as itself. This basic characteristic is one of the elements that delayed the making of "T2." James Cameron had the idea for the "shape shifter" when making the original "Terminator," but it took the intervening years for cinematic CGI FX to catch up with Cameron's imagination, so the T-1000 could be portrayed convincingly on-screen! Robert Patrick plays the "human" T-1000, and his performance is as different from the original terminator as is the technology he represents. "Ahnald's" original performance set the standard, relentless and robotic, unstoppable, like a semi spinning out of control on an ice covered freeway; get out of the way or be obliterated. Robert Patrick gives a more subtle, more nuanced, performance; he's smaller, sleeker, faster, his is the relentlessness of a shark moving in for the kill, a thing of terrible beauty that cannot be swayed or negotiated with. But the T-1000 also knows something of human frailty, of pain, and how to use it to its advantage. Whereas the original terminator simply slaughtered anything that got in its way, the T-1000 actually tortures Sarah Connor in one scene in an effort to make her give up her son, telling her, "I know this must hurt..." "Ahnald's" performance, as the old-tech T-800 model terminator, is also more varied, and this is explained in, what I think is, the most important scene deleted from the original theatrical release, but reinstated in this "Ultimate Edition." Sarah, having been broken out of an asylum by her son and his newest bestest buddy - his very own terminator! - is holed up in a disused gas station with John and the Terminator. The T-800 explains, while Sarah digs bullets out of its back, that it's possible for the terminators to learn, to adapt to their environments, but a switch on the CPU has to be reset to allow this behavior; the default setting is the unstoppable hunter killer, with no need of subtlety. But here's the catch, to make the change, which will allow the Terminator to better protect John, the CPU has to be removed, effectively shutting down the Terminator, then reset and reinstalled. The CPU is removed, but Sarah tries to destroy it, saying it'll be one less terminator, and John, exerting his authority for the first time, convinces his mother that they need the Terminator if they are to survive, and more importantly, stop the creation of Skynet. From here on in, the film roars to its finale as Sarah takes the fight to Cyberdyne by, literally, zeroing in on Dr Miles Dyson, the scientist who obsessively cracks the secret of the original terminator CPU. "T2" lacks the sheer visceral punch of the original; it's a more refined, mature, and carefully thought out film, but that's no criticism, the set pieces will blow you away, and the CGI, absolutely state of the art at the time, STILL stands up today. This is controlled action and mayhem for grown-ups, and "Ahnald" was true to his word when he said, "I'll be back!"

If you've seen the first Terminator movie, and at this point who in America hasn't besides puppies and children, you know what you're in for: A quest narrative that twists and grinds towards its inevitable ending; the well-armed, muscular yet strangely boyish, former governor of California matching stride for stride the enormous fire power and inexorable will of a dewy-eyed former waitress who has become a sinewy Goth; and a whiny John Connor flapping his arms like a duck trying to take off as he screams for Mom or Arnold to come save him. (He is handy at popping the hood of an ATM or breaking the code at the gates of Cyberdyne, though.) The bad-guy, robo-cop who is chasing John, Linda, and Arnold (who has suffered a major change of heart since the first Terminator movie), cracks his neck a lot as he sloughs off bullets and impersonates John's mother, an asylum security guard at a coffee machine, and even Linda Hamilton in the interminable (where's the Terminator when you need him?!) final scene. He's a new Adam-12-style cop-bot, a latterday Morpheus. This cop-bot is a new, cybernetic organism designed to kill, an upgraded Terminator with new and unsettling powers. Emotionally and physically, however, this robo-cop has just two settings, or an acting range from A to B (as Pauline Kael once said of Tom Cruise). He either is shape-shifting, melting, and reconstituting himself, or he's running like the robo-sprinter he is, arms pumping like pistons. (Why doesn't he just fly?) The film is basically one long chase scene, bad guys chasing good guys, until key characters meet their bitter end in the smelter. Comparing the bad guy/cop-bot to the original Arnold Schwarzenegger kegorater/terminator/flying,crying death machine, is like comparing a Ferrari to a WWI tank. Schwarzenneger's Terminator was the old Hummer that splashed through rivers and crunched over small trees without ever faltering, its front fender encumbered by a giant winch, presumably to pull the more ordinary vehicles out of the mud. Cop-bot Terminator in Term II, "Judgement Day," is able to become any living thing he touches if it is of roughly the same mass. He also has a disturbing ability to reconstitute himself after any assault whether from bullets, bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, or ice machines. Whatever they throw at him, Cop-bot continues his monomaniacal chasing down of John Conner and his Eastern European Terminator sidekick, Arnold, Whether John is rescuing his mother from the psychiatric hospital or dodging bullets in a videogame arcade, John faces repeatedly faces Cop-bot and tries to bring him down. (Otherwise he'll never be able to sleep at night again.) In the last scene, for far too long Linda, John, the cop-bot, and Arnold slalom between giant moving parts of factory die-cutters and syncopated hammers slamming down, as they slip up and down metal staircases, conveyer belts, and all the other moving parts in a factory that seems half pinball machine and half 3D printer. Basically, this film is a crude version of "The Lord of the Rings" with John Connor starring as a post-apocalyptic Frodo who, instead of trudging to Mordor, sprints alongside the monosyllabic Arnold all the way to the smelter. And just as Frodo hesitated at the crucial moment in which he was to hurl the mythic Ring into the fires of Mordor, a hesitation that prompted Gollum's spring towards his pretty Ring and their tandem expiration, so do John and Arnold find their way to the fiery pits and hot stew of metals brewing in a factory at the end of the Road, where each one has his own part to play, too. So, spoiler alert, in the last minutes of the film Arnold realizes he must self-immolate, but his schematics are such that he cannot do so on his own. So at the lip of this post-Tolkien firepit, Arnold stops. But a sweaty Linda Hamilton (who in real life has been on a high-protein, low-fat diet, and working out four-plus hours every day for a year, extra-camera) limps to the smelter and pushes him in. I didn't think this was quite as good as the first Terminator movie, but it's still pretty damn good for its originality, the ways in which the beginning of this film messes with those of us who saw the first film, and its reliable formula of "people-in-jeopardy" (peep-jeop?) who must be saved or the whole Earth (including every child on every playground in the world) will go to hell in a handbasket. Watching Linda Hamilton drag her bloody, shattered leg through the factory, wincing every time its bloody wound is aggravated by stair or robot but still carrying on, propelled by an instinct more maternal than heroic, is absolutely wonderful stock footage enlivened by Hamilton's off-the-charts shrieks and grimacing as she bounces her wounded body up or down a stair--and away from Adam 12. Seeing Linda Hamilton snarl her rage, her eyes little circles of insanity protruding under her mane of sweat-soaked, dripping wet hair; and all her damp efforts to kill the cop-bot, made the price of admission thoroughly worth it.

Very crisp picture and sound at a very good price Thank you

Yes a classic one of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Definitely it's worth watching. One of my favorite Terminator movies

This review won't be a review of the movie, which is one of the greatest action/sci-fi films of all time (second only to Aliens, in my humble opinion). Instead, this will solely review the features of a particular DVD edition. I wanted to post this since I noticed there are several different DVD versions of T2 floating around and I wanted to try to help anyone who couldn't decide which one to buy. So, this review is specifically for the Extreme DVD edition of T2 released by Artisan Home Entertainment. My copy has Arnold on the front and it's the two-disc version. I bought this edition a few days ago, since I'm almost finished clearing out my old VHS tapes (yep, still got 'em) and hadn't yet re-purchased certain favorites on DVD. I chose this version of T2 mostly for the availability from Amazon (as opposed to an outside seller) and the low price, and I'm glad that I did. This is an excellent edition. It doesn't have quite as many bells and whistles as the Ultimate Edition DVD, but it's still definitely a worthy purchase. The first disc contains a special edition version of the film with 16 minutes of additional scenes inserted seamlessly. There are commentaries included and an interactive mode which includes behind-the-scenes footage, as well as English and Spanish subtitles. Happily, I discovered that the original theatrical version is also included, and can be accessed if you move your cursor or DVD selector to the blank panel on the right-hand side of the main menu screen. When you do this, the words 'The Future is Not Yet Set' appear in red and if you select them, you will be taken to a secondary menu screen for the theatrical version. I was delighted about this because at my time of purchase, this particular edition was -not- advertised as including both versions of the film on DVD, and being nostalgic, I'm glad to have the version of T2 I've loved and watched hundreds of times since childhood (I was 9 years old when Judgment Day came out). The theatrical version doesn't include commentary or an interactive mode, but does feature English and Spanish subtitles. Though this edition claims to be remastered in high definition, the transfer isn't completely perfect. The film looks incredibly crisp and clear compared to my old VHS tape, of course, but there are certain scenes (many of the high-action sequences, specifically) which seem to have retained a small amount of that familiar 90's grain. Personally, I don't mind it, and I probably wouldn't have even noticed it if I hadn't been watching the film specifically to review the DVD quality, but if you're looking for vastly improved picture quality, this version might not be the one for you. What IS perfect, on the other hand, is the upgraded sound. This film won two 1992 Academy Awards in the sound category, and that excellence is retained here. Every crunched bone, shot fired, and pitch change in Edward Furlong's voice is preserved beautifully, along with Brad Fiedel's gorgeous and memorable film score, which spent six weeks on the Billboard charts in 1991. Even on my ten-year-old 25-watt computer speakers, this movie sounds fantastic. The second disc has some interesting special features, including two documentaries: one about the making of the film, and the other about life on the set, complete with backstage footage, production footage, and interviews. They also included a separate theatrical version of the film which can *only* be played from your PC using Windows Media Player 9, as well as an 'FX Studio' and 'Skynet Combat Chassis Designer' for you to tinker with on your computer. All in all, this is a great DVD release of an excellent action film. If you're on the fence about which edition to buy and are looking for an inexpensive version that doesn't skimp on quality or special features, don't hesitate to pick this one up.