Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Roger Ebert Review, Chicago Sun-Times
- "From Holy Aliens to Cyborg Saviors: Biblical Subtexts in Four Science Fiction Films," Angon Karl Kozlovic, Journal of Religion and Film.
- "Christ Figures Are Found in the Strangest Places," Steve Lansingh, TheFilmForum: Christian Conversation about the Movies.
- "Preaching Peace in Hollywood," (Terminator 3, LOTR 3, and Matrix 3), Jeff Krantz and Michael Hardin, preachingpeace.org.
- Themes
- Crucifixion, Redemption, Sacrifice
- In the closing scene, the Terminator (who in the previous film was the arch-enemy - links to Lucifer!), is lowered into a vat of molten metal, because this is the only way to destroy his otherwise indestructible micro-chip and the power of destruction that it contains. The destruction must be accomplished by his friends, as he is unable to "self-destruct" - powerful connotations for considering the Judas story. The knowledge of what it means to be human and to feel grief is also highlighted. The final image of his destruction is a hand (God to man? Crucifixion?) reaching up (also links back to the last image in the first film, where the hand which kept coming alive represented the power of evil.) The whole film has strong themes of salvation and the cost of salvation - for instance, is it justifiable to destroy a family in order to save the world? (David Hogg)
- Crucifixion, Redemption, Sacrifice
