Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

James Cameron's sequel sends two machines back to the same year, one to kill the boy who will lead the human resistance and one to keep him alive. Sarah Connor has spent a decade being treated as delusional for warning anyone who would listen, and the film lets her be right and dangerous at once. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as the T-800, this time as the protector, with Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong as John, and Robert Patrick as the liquid metal T-1000. Its effects work rewrote what audiences expected to be possible on screen.