10 Best CGI Movie Characters Ever
5. The T-1000 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day
It is absolutely crazy to think that Terminator 2 is a movie that’s 28 years old. Even now, though, the film is viewed as one of the greatest sequels in history, and Robert Patrick’s T-1000 is regarded as a sheer masterpiece of SFX wizardry.
The use of CGI in T2 was completely revolutionary, and the shape-shifting liquid fluidity of Patrick’s T-1000 had audiences losing their minds at what they were seeing. This was one of the movies – like The Thing, like Tron, like Total Recall – where it was genuinely hard for audiences to fully fathom what they were seeing.
As for the T-1000 itself, it also helped that the character was an unrelenting, sinister killing machine that was simply functional for the solo purpose of taking out Sarah Connor and her son John. Patrick was at his menacing best, and it’s fair to say that he completely stole the film each and every time he'd turn up with evil intentions. And that’s quite the statement when you consider that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the hottest movie star on the planet back then.