John Connor young John is skeptical of his mother's claims of his fate as humanity's leader. One day, while in an arcade with a friend, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick) and the T-800 (Schwarzenegger) - a reprogrammed android sent by John's future self, fight over him. This starts a chase sequence where the T-800 and John try to lose the T-1000; this event validates John's mother's warning to him about Skynet. Later that night, his mother breaks out and he and the T-800 go to save her, and the three escape. John teaches The Terminator how to be like a human; teaching him
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