Aliens confirmed that James Cameron could make the hell out of a sequel, but it was Terminator 2: Judgment Day - the follow-up to 1984's The Terminator - that near on confirmed him as the sequel master. What could have felt like a pointless return to the world of The Terminator, then, emerges as quite the opposite; in fact, Terminator 2 is so good in absolutely every way - the script, the action, the special effects, the acting - that it pretty much eclipses the first movie as something of a test run. Without a doubt, it's Cameron's masterpiece. The stroke of genius that made this movie so downright brilliant, though? Role reversal. This time Arnie's T-8000 plays the good guy, and its in his relationship with young John Connor (an annoying but appropriate Edward Furlong) that cements the movie as a classic. Most will remember Judgment Day for the groundbreaking SFX that allowed its terrifying antagonist, the T-1000, to change shape at will, but praise also needs to be handed to Linda Hamilton, who effortlessly transforms her once lowly Sarah Connor into one of cinema's biggest badasses.