Terminator 2: Judgement Day is one of the greatest action movies of all time, but what is often overlooked is actually my favourite part of the movie, the first 20 minutes. For those of you who haven't seen Terminator (fix that soon) here's a recap on what happens. Terminator 1: In the near future of 2029, robots & humans are at war and the human resistance is being lead by John Connor, so Skynet (the bad guys) decide to send a Terminator back in time to kill John Connor's mother, Sarah Connor, before she gives birth to him, this of course does not work, Terminator destroyed, we all live happily ever after. Terminator 2: Skynet decides to try again, this time kill John when he's a 13 year old boy, but future John Connor is like "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" so they decide to send their own Terminator back to protect John. And for the first 20 minutes of the movie we have two Terminators looking for John Connor, one to kill him, one to protect him.
Now the reason why I consider this to be the best part of the movie is for one simple reason, you don't know which one is there to kill him and which one is there to protect him. This creates a level of tension when the action hasn't even started yet, because you don't know which one to root for to get to him first.
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