Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong sci-fi action and violence, and for language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • When the second terminator comes you can briefly see his buttocks as well as part of his scrotum (very brief and easy to miss), but nothing prolonged though.

Violence & Gore

  • The T-1000 turns his finger into a needle and stabs a police officer through his eye. Little blood is shown.
  • Near the beginning of the film, two orderlies tase Sarah for several seconds with a stun gun and force pills down her throat. Not lengthy or graphic but can be disturbing for some.
  • The Terminator throws a biker into a bar's kitchen. The biker lands on a large grill and is briefly burned before falling off.
  • An innocent man is caught in the crossfire between T-1000 and T-800.
  • Somewhat moderate violence with very little details. The theme probably makes it feel more servere.
  • Despite being 15 (moderate R) nowadays, there are certain moments that still are hard R (18) - and still are true to what gave the movie an 18 in the UK in the first place. Sarah's nightmare and the Terminator graphically cutting himself to show who he is are examples.
  • Cinemax content advisory: rated R for graphic violence (GV), adult language (AL), and adult content (AC).
  • During the future war scene, many soldiers are shot by lasers on machines. (Not graphic.)
  • A man puts out his cigar on the Terminator's shoulder. The Terminator then crushes the man's hand in its grip.
  • The T-1000 kills a police officer and takes his clothes and his squad car.
  • The Terminator and T-1000 shoot at each other in a hallway. An innocent bystander is gunned down in the crossfire. They then struggle and crash through a wall, and one is thrown through a window.
  • The T-1000 (disguised as John's foster mother) transforms his arm into a sword-like weapon and impales John's foster father through his head while drinking from a milk carton. "She" then pulls it out and the man's corpse falls to the ground. Some blood, mixed with milk.
  • The T-1000 kills a dog and rips off it's collar, blood is seen on the collar (uncut version only).
  • An orderly at a mental institute is hit across the face by a broom handle. Blood spurts.
  • Sarah sneaks up on a man and a guard and repeatedly whacks the guard with a baton before breaking the man's arm with it and hitting him on the back of the knees, so he falls.
  • Sarah Connor puts a syringe on Silberman's neck that is filled with poison. She does not empty the poison into him though.
  • T-101 shoots an officer twice in his legs. Impact shots are seen and he screams in pain.
  • When a group of male nurses hold Sarah down and attempt to inject her, the Terminator grabs one man and throws him into a window, smashing it. He then picks up another and throws him through a glass door. A third man runs at him with his baton and tries to hit him but the Terminator hits him in the stomach with his rifle and throws him away, he hits a wall very hard and bounces off.
  • Sarah dreams about a nuclear attack and a large nuclear weapon detonates over a city. We see many children and their mothers burning and screaming. Sarah then catches on fire and screams horribly. Later, when the blast comes, the carbonized bodies of the women and children disintegrate and Sarah screams as her flesh is ripped off. Very graphic and hard R (18 in the UK).
  • The Terminator cuts the skin off his arm and rips it away to reveal his metal skeleton. Graphic.
  • At Cyberdyne, Dyson is shot several times with blood spurts.

Profanity

  • 16 uses of "fuck". Frequent uses of "shit" and "d*ck" are also present.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People are seen drinking alcohol in a bar.
  • Sarah is physically forced by male nurses to take her medication that she refuses.
  • A man in a bar is smoking a cigar.
  • Sarah Connor is shown smoking a cigarette in a couple scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The T-1000 morphs out of the floors, and stabs a jovial security guard through the eye. The security guard shakes in tremulous pain, and dies as the T-1000 observes his movements in interest.
  • Two guards force Sarah in a mental institute to take her meds by beating and shocking her.
  • The T-1000 kills a dog offscreen. It's scream can be heard just before the T-1000, rips it's collar off, (with blood), which may upset some animal lovers (extended version only).
  • The Terminator cuts the skin off his arm and rips it away to show Dyson his metallic arm. Blood and flesh is on his metal arm.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • Sarah Connor is shot in the thigh.
  • T-1000 gets frozen by liquid nitrogen and shattered by a bullet. After he is reassembled, he begins glitching when he is near different metal objects. (uncut version only)
  • T-800 and T-1000 get in an intense fight near the end of the movie. T-1000 terminates T-800. T-800 then re-programs himself and comes back.
  • T-1000 stabs Sarah Connor in the shoulder. She screams in pain.
  • T-800 terminates T-1000 by shooting him until he falls into molten steel.
  • You can see The Terminator's red eye, and the metal skeleton under his skin after the big fight scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The scene in which the The Terminator sacrifices himself by being lowered into the molten steel is very emotionally sad.
  • The T-1000 is killed by falling into a vat of molten steel. As it is dying, you can hear it's inhuman screams as it morphs graphically between all the characters it has assimilated all the while screaming in pain. It then changes to its liquid form where multiple forms all scream in pain before finally showing it's swollen head screaming and dissolving.
  • Sarah dreams the world ends and a bomb comes down and blows up. Everything catches on fire. Sarah Connor catches on fire and screams in pain. The scene is longer and more emotional in home video releases. This includes Kyle (who dies in the first movie) appearing in Sarah's dream. He warns Sarah of the danger that John and humanity face.

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