
“It's nothing personal.”
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Terminator, not taken from this film’s own record.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) is the highest-rated of the 6 rated films in The Terminator series, at 8.2/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.8/10.
It arrived 7 years after The Terminator (1984).
Its 14,814 TMDB ratings are 25% of the 59,585 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Terminator, comparing all 6 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is film 2 of 6. See the complete watch order.