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...Second: Carolco has nearly made back its T2 investment by selling off theatrical, videocassette and pay-TV rights around the world. Third: the idea is to put the money on the screen. T2, with its mercurial visual wizardry that leaves audiences oohing, does that and then some. And finally: Cameron's previous trio of popular, dazzling fantasies (The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss) reveal him as an artist-entertainer whose pictures deserve to be judged not on their budgets but on their merits. That is the only bottom line that audiences need care about...
...dollars. Even today, though, $100 million is not peanuts for a movie. (The first Terminator cost a chintzy $6.5 million.) The T2 price tag may have achieved its round figure only in the gossip that passes for hard news in Hollywood. "I wish I'd had $100 million," Cameron says with the wistfulness of a teenager who got a Porsche for Christmas, but without...
...what have Cameron and his crew of thousands come up with? A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half. For a breathless first hour, the film zips along in a textbook display of plot planting and showmanship. But then it stumbles over its own ambitions before settling for a conventional climax with a long fuse. It's a truism, and a true one, that people remember the first lines of novels and the last scenes of movies. The best films accelerate, accumulate, pay off. But Cameron...
...protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and her young son (Edward Furlong) from an even more efficiently psychopathic cyborg, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick). The movie is a 135-minute chase that re- enacts the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. You can imagine the biblical potential for further sequels, but Cameron would rather not. His motto during this arduous shoot, he says, was "T3 without...
...mechanical man. And it parades its fabulous film technology while predicting that the world could end when military technology -- the Strategic Defense Initiative, here called Skynet -- runs amuck. It's a Star Wars movie that is anti-Star Wars. All these colliding metaphors feed nicely off Cameron's belief in the duality of human nature. "Within us," he says, "we have both a compassionate sensitivity and a violent beast. That beast, coupled with technology, got us to where we are today and enabled us to dominate the planet...