High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr.. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong. A sequel to 1984`s The Terminator, it follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shape-shifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John before he will become leader of the human resistance. An older, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in time to protect John.