An American-released director's cut of James Cameron's science-fiction thriller, including 15 minutes of additional scenes, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
Tormented by the imminent threat of a nuclear holocaust from which intelligent machines will emerge triumphant to crush human existence, Sarah Connor has been institutionalised and separated from her son who has developed into a hardened streetwise delinquent.
Informed of the future, she knows that young John Connor will become mankind's leader.
However, the machines of know it too, and once again they send a cyborg assassin back through time to terminate the potential saviour. But this killing machine is even more powerful and deadly than the one Sarah defeated before.
Director James Cameron (1991, 15)
See Films: pp 48-53 *****