(1991)

POSTERS - PICTURES - TRAILER / MULTIMEDIA
SOUNDS - THEME MUSIC - SCRIPT - CAST - SPECIAL EDITION

Plot: Skynet, the 21st century computer waging a losing war on humans sends a second terminator (T1000) back in time to destroy the leader of the human resistance while he is still a boy. The human leader (John Conners) reprograms a T800 and also sends it back in time to protect himself.

Runtime: 137 minutes

Country: USA

Language: English

Trivia:
- Given Schwarzenegger's $15 million salary and his total of 700 words of dialog, that translates to $21,429 per word.
- Robert Winley (the guy who stubs the cigar on the T-800) was previously in a very similar scene in Near Dark (1987), where he gets into another fight with an unkillable foe, this time a vampire.
- The mall the T-1000 goes to is called "The Galleria." In Arnold Schwarzenegger's earlier movie, Commando, the mall Sully enters is also called "The Galleria."
- The same videocassette that contains the infamous Rodney King beating was used earlier that day to tape the film crew shooting the exterior of the bar for the beginning scene.
- The date of the fictional Judgment Day -- 29 August 1997 -- is the anniversaryy of the Soviet Union's first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949.
- The cryo-truck "Benthic Petroleum", the name of the company in Abyss, The (1989), also directed by Cameron and starring Michael Biehn.
- The T-800 says "I need a vacation", which Arnold Schwarzenegger previously said in Kindergarten Cop (1990). This was not in the script, but ad-libbed.
- Identical twins Don Stanton and Dan Stanton played the hospital security guard and the T1000.
- Linda Hamilton's twin Leslie Hamilton Gearren played the T1000 when it was imitating Sarah Connor.
- The T1000 has at least three hands when it is flying the helicopter.
- The T800 loses its left arm, and hauls itself forward with its right. The same thing happened to the T800 in Terminator, The (1984).
- The T1000 tells the helicopter pilot to "Get out!". This is an interesting parallel to Terminator, The (1984), in which the T800 gives the same command to a truck driver under similar circumstances.
- After throwing the T800 through the shopping center window, the T1000 glances at a mannequin that is entirely covered with chrome.
- Cameron once owned a dog named "Wolfie".
- SFX crew had to incorporate Robert Patrick's football-injury limp in their animation of the T1000. Next, they filmed the stuff with the T1000 pretending to be driving from the right-hand steering wheel (wearing a mirror-image police uniform), while the real driver was hidden under a black hood at the lowered real steering wheel. For the final film, the scenes were flipped left-to-right to make it all look right, and combined with footage shot with a normal truck driving in the drain. This was done so that Patrick could concentrate on acting rather than driving. They accidentally caught a street sign; after they mirror-imaged the scene, they digitally reversed the text on the sign so it would appear correct.
- More explicit shots of the arm cutting scene were removed.
- The T800's bike jump into the stormwater drain was performed by a stuntman Peter Kent. The motorbike was supported by 1-inch cables, so that when they hit the ground, the bike and rider only weighted 180 pounds. The cables were later digitally erased.
- The T800 carries a gun in a box of roses. Some of the soundtrack was written by "Guns 'n Roses".
- A promotional trailer for the film included a scene not in the film: the T800 being constructed.
- The tourist taking photographs of the Terminator in the mall is in fact co-writer William Wisher Jr..

Goofs:
- In the bar fight, the T800 is stabbed with a rubber knife.
- The police computer indicates John was born in 1985 and is 10 years old, indicating the current year to be 1995 or 1996. The T800 mentions to Sarah that judgment day (August 27, 1997), will be "in three years." However, John sends the T-800 back from 2029, which is said to be 35 years in the future, making the year 1994.
- Sara's hands when she is doing the chin-ups.
- John's bike's throttle sound doesn't match the throttle action.
- The T1000 fires rounds into the T800's back, but the damage to its jacket disappears when he is thrown through the window. Director James Cameron said the scripting of this sequence at the time of filming was different.
- The red car wrecked at the beginning of the bike chase was already severely damaged.
- Camera in protective box visible on the side of the truck.
- The windscreen of the black tow truck falls out when it jumps into the storm drain, but appears back again. The steering system of the truck was obviously broken as well (the front wheels point in different directions), but it is fixed later.
- Sparks emerge from the truck before it scratches the wall.
- Position of John's bike as it is run over.
- Spilled diesel fuel does not explode, even with sparks flying.
- The T800 cocks the shotgun just before the tire rolls out of the fire, yet when talking to John in the next scene he removes a spent shell.
- The location of the pistol that the T800 places on the ground.
- As Sarah drags Doug into the closet, his foot snags his flashlight and it follows him through the door. In the next shot, it is back in the hallway again.
- Blood on floor during Sarah's escape from hospital.
- Sarah is barefoot, but it sounds like she is wearing shoes.
- The T800's sunglasses get broken, and later the wrong side is shown to be damaged.
- The T1000 draws the gun with its left hand but shoots with the right. The gun also is thrown to the ground, only to reappear in its holster when the T1000 chases the car.
- The distance between the bars on the gate that catch the T1000's gun.
- The T1000 runs past Dr Silberman twice, once while firing, and once while not.
- Dr Silberman disappears when the T1000 tries to get in the elevator.
- As the trio leave the hospital in the stolen police car and the T800 is driving it backward out of the garage and through the parking lot, a stunt driver is visible in the backseat.
- The getaway car stolen from the gas station is broken into by smashing the side window. Later the window is shown intact but wound down.
- Camera reflected in glass in shot behind Dyson as Sarah Connor laser-scopes him.
- The magazine's on Dyson's coffee table when Sarah has him pinned down on his back.
- John's watch shows times between 10:35 and 12:00 as he tries to ease Sarah down after she nearly kills Dyson.
- Camera and lower half of crew reflected in the T1000's sunglasses as it cruises through the fires in front of Cyberdyne.
- Camera crew visible reflected in the glass of the Cyberdyne lobby.
- Number of rounds left in teargas gun as the T800 walks outside.
- The SWAT truck loses a wing mirror as it crashes into the lobby, but it reappears later.
- When the SWAT van crashes through Cyberdyne's front doors into the lobby, it comes to rest with the rear doors closed. When Sarah and John Connor enter it, it's in a different position and the rear doors are fully open.
- The SWAT truck's left (right) back door is open as they escape from Cyberdyne.
- The tires on the police bike change to knobby trials tires.
- When the T1000 is hanging on the front of the helicopter, it is merely a stunt player dressed in aluminium foil.
- The hole that the T1000 headbutted in the helicopter windscreen disappears and reappears.
- After the helicopter pilot jumps out, the door slams shut. The T1000 reaches over and shuts it again.
- The bullet holes in the back door of the SWAT van appear twice.
- The front of the helicopter is destroyed in the collision with the SWAT truck, and yet appears intact later.
- When the SWAT truck tilts over on the bridge, its front window is thrown out and smashed. When we see the semitrailer pass by, the front window is almost intact and back in place.
- Black sock covering real arm visible when mechanical arm crushed.
- The T800 is lowered by a chain into a vat of molten steel, yet the lowest link of the chain remains unmelted.
- Sarah puts a bullet hole in the windshield of the police car in the garage; shortly thereafter, while driving ("I see everything"), the bullet hole is clearly gone.
- The watch on Sarah's right wrist.
- Sarah tells Silberman that there are 215 bones in the human body, when in fact there are 206 bones.
- When the T800's arm is crushed in the machinery cogs, his jacket gets torn but a moment later it's not.
- The T800 misidentifies one of the cars in the roadhouse as a 1980 Plymouth, when in fact it's a 1979-1985 Ford.
- When the T-800 and the T-1000 are fighting in the hallway at the Galleria, the wall that T-1000 throws the T-800 through is already broken before the T-800 hits it.
- The T1000 smashes the head of the T800 with the rolling girder clearly scraping the T800's flesh. There is no flesh or blood on the girder when he pulls it back.
- In Terminator, The (1984) when Kyle tells Sarah about the nuclear war he never tells her when it happens (he says something like "I don't know the exact dates") yet Sarah mentions the date twice (once in voice over, the other in her therapy session).
- The 'tunnel' that the T800 arrives in shears off the back of the semi-trailer including the tires which still hold their shape despite losing their air.
- The security guard buys a cup of coffee that has a poker game on it. The guard says he has a full house (three of a kind plus a pair). It is obvious that the cup has two pairs and the card on the bottom does not match either pair.
- When the T-800 shoots the security guard in the leg at the gates of Pescadero, the actor falls down clutching his right leg when the blood bag is clearly visible on his left.
- When the T800 shoots the T1000 from inside the lift and splits its head open, the T1000's head is already slightly split open before he shoots.
- In one of the last fight scenes between the T800 and the T1000, T800 stabs through the T1000 with a long steel pole. The T1000 kicks him and he falls backward, dropping the pole behind him. However, when the camera cuts back to the T1000, the pole is still stuck in him and he pulls it out to begin hitting the T800 with it.
- When Sarah is being interrogated she unobtrusively slides a paper clip across the table. Later we see her take the paper clip out of her mouth and escape her restraints. When Sarah was taken away from the table her fingers could not quite hold on to the paper clip and it was left on the table; in addition, the pieces are longer than they were in the earlier scene.
- When the T-1000 retracts the blade he spiked John's foster father with, you can see the mechanism attached to the side of the actor's head used to simulate the blade.
- After Sarah encounters the Terminator for the first time in the hallway of the hospital, he throws one of the guards into the window; the actor is obviously replaced by a stunt double.
- You cannot determine the PIN for an ATM card by sending a sequence of numbers. The entered PIN is packaged with all the other data (card #, withdrawal amount, etc.) and the entire transmission is sent as a unit.
- When the T-800 confronts the SWAT team in the Cyberdyne lobby, a SWAT team member can be seen lying on the floor next to the first SWAT team member shot by the T-800, even before any shots were fired.
- In the "Stand on one foot"-scene, when John gives the pistol back to the T800, it is correctly cocked, in the next shot, it's not, and in the next shot when he puts it in his pants, it's cocked again.
- When the T-1000 enters Dyson's home, a police dispatcher is heard relaying the address of Cyberdyne as "2144 Kramer." Two scenes later, as the squad cars are shown en route, the dispatcher repeats the address, only this time as "2111 Kramer."
- The bullets come out of the minigun the Terminator fires through Cyberdyne's window faster than the sound.
- Before the T800 is lowered into the steel, he says "goodbye." You can see his breath revealing the actual temperature on the set.
- In the biker bar, the Terminator scans various people for body types and clothing matches. The body type descriptions do not always match the individuals he is scanning.
- When Sarah carves "No Fate" into the desk, the tip of the knife curves toward her, then you see it facing away, then when John grabs it from the desk its tip is back toward him.
- When the T-1000 head-butts the helicopter the bubble shatters like glass. However, all aircraft windscreens are Plexiglas for safety.
- When the T-800 and John Connor are driving (via motorcycle) toward Pescadero to spring Sarah Connor, the same group of parked school buses is passed twice.
- The T-1000 riding the police motorcycle crashes through the window, launching itself toward the helicopter. As it crashes through the window, the windshield of the bike comes off, seconds later it reappears on the bike when it falls to the ground.
- The message that John Connor made Kyle Reese memorize and recite back to Sarah Connor in Terminator, The (1984) is not the same as the one young John Connor recites back to the T-800 at Enrique's.
- The date for Judgment Day is sometimes given as August 27, and at other times as August 29.
- The T-1000 jumps out of a window on the floor that was just blown up to get onto the helicopter, but he crashes through the unbroken window, when it is clear that all windows on that floor were broken in the blast
- Green padding can be seen behind Todd Voight as the T-1000's arm pins him to the cabinet.

Budget: $100,000,000 (US)

Gross:
$310m (Non-USA)
£18.179m (UK)
$204.843m (USA)
$514.8m (worldwide)

Filming Locations:
- Bayside Parkway & Gateway Blvd, Fremont, California, USA (Cyberdyne, exterior)
- 6th Street Bridge, Los Angeles, California, USA
- El Mirage Dry Lake, Mojave Desert, California, USA
- Elysian Park, California, USA (Nuclear nightmare scenes)
- Fontana, California, USA (steel mill scene)
- Fremont, California, USA
- Lakeview Terrace Medical Center, Lakeview Terrace, California, USA (Pescadero State Hospital, parking lot, biker bar scenes)
- Lancaster, California, USA
- Long Beach, California, USA
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Malibu, California, USA (Dyson home)
- Northridge, California, USA
- Reseda, California, USA (ATM scene)
- San Jose, California, USA
- Santa Fe, Santa Fe co., New Mexico, USA
- Sherman Oaks Galleria, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
- Sun Valley, California, USA
- Terminal Island Freeway, San Pedro, California, USA (helicopter/tanker chase)

Director: James Cameron

Writers: James Cameron & William Wisher Jr.

Filming Dates: October 1990 - April 1991

Scenes in the screenplay but not filmed:
- Extended Future War sequence where the resistance won and enter a SkyNet lab where they find the time-portal and a storage facilities of Terminators. You also see Reese talking to John.
- Sarah's ECT where Sarah is fitted for electro-convulsive therapy and voltage is pumped into her.
- Salceda's death sequence. Sal's dog starts barking, Sal goes out tries to shoot the T-1000 and fails. T-1000 uses the pointed finger/sword trick to Sal's shoulder blades saying "I know this hurts. Where is John Connor". Sal curses him and his hands search around the ground near some crates that held grenades. He kills himself and hopefully the T-1000 with one. No luck. T-1000 head falls off but like the little piece in the asylum escape sequence, it oozes back into his boots. Yolanda sees this and hugs the baby as T-1000 steps closer. T-1000 picks up the baby and gets the info from her as where John and others had gone.
- Gant Ranch. This section was a longer version of Sal's and refers to Travis Gant, "crazy ex-Green Beret" that John mentions his mother seeing before she was caught. Longer and has romantic notions between the two. After Sarah, John & the T-800 left, T-1000 kills Gant as he did like with John's "Mom". Disguised as Gant's lover, he easily stepped up to him and tortured him for answers before killing him.
- Dyson's Vision Sequence. Dyson, the creator of the new processor had a dream sequence before he died and dropped the device on the trigger. In it he saw a picture of his family before a nuclear explosion turned it to ash. He sees his family running and then a scene of the sun as it pulls back to reveal Dyson's dying eye before he closes it and drops the book.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton ....  Sarah Connor  Edward Furlong ....  John Connor (Age 10)  Robert Patrick