Revisiting Terminator 2: the Greatest Action Film of All Times

Ezra James
8 min readJul 27, 2021

There have been plenty of films I have seen well over ten to twenty times in my life, but I am fairly certain the number for Terminator 2: Judgement Day is way above thirty. Released in 1991, it was, like many cultural touchstones, the result of the perfect storm of components – and my personal favorite selection as the greatest action movie of all times. Directed by legendary money-making machine James Cameron, and starring one of the greatest movie stars in Hollywood history in Arnold Schwarzenegger, it was going to be damn near impossible for…

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Ezra James

Absurd journalist and essayist from the outskirts of Shambhala.