T-1000 played Kyle Reese in "The Terminator", in the role with the explanation that Skynet managed to acquire Reese's DNA and use it for a new Terminator. Cameron ultimately dropped this idea after deciding the audience would find it too confusing: eventually casting came down to Robert Patrick, as a deliberate contrast to the original Terminator - Cameron stated "I wanted to find someone who would be a good contrast to Arnold. If the 800 series is a kind of human Panzer tank, then the 1000 series had to be a Porsche." For a more machine-like performance, Patrick had to learn
Terminator 2: Judgment Day number 33 on "Total Film"s 2006 list of "The Top 100 Films of All Time". "Empire" ranked the film number 35 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". In 2008, the film was voted the eighth-best science fiction film ever on "AFI's 10 Top 10". IGN named the film the tenth-greatest science fiction film of all time, saying that it was "one example of a sequel coming along and just destroying the original in every regard." "Empire" ranked "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" as the third-best film sequel of all time. In 2012, "Total Film" placed the