Terminator 2: Judgment Day

If I were to judge this film purely on its action spectacle merits, I’d probably love it at the same fulsome level that most of the filmgoing world does. However, there is story to be had, and some of the inelegance holds me back to merely loving it as a very good film overall rather than one of the greatest ever made.

It’s an interesting contrast where the first Terminator film didn’t have a line of expository dialogue for its first forty minutes, but the second Terminator film is almost...