The Blu-ray Disc release that is “Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Skynet Edition]” includes three versions of the full movie — the one originally shown in theaters in 1991, and a special edition that features nearly 20 minutes of missing footage. There is a third version accesible with a special code (enter 82997). The special edition returns the missing footage seamlessly into the flow of the movie, and if you hadn’t seen the original version, you wouldn’t know they had been re-added at all.

Some of the re-added scenes are more important than others. Of note is a dream sequence that reunites Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor with Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), the hero from the first “Terminator.” Another scene adds some “family time” for Dyson, but is not all that necessary. Other, more important scenes include a lengthy sequence where, after having escaped the T-1000 and saved Sarah from the mental institution, the Terminator is shut off, and Sarah nearly destroys his CPU after she removes it. The scene adds to the emotional gap between mother and son, and adds to Sarah’s continued distrust of the Terminator, which is very justified after the events of the original movie.

Another scene, shorter in length and not completely necessary, shows the T-1000, after having killed John’s foster parents, going outside to the family’s barking dog and retrieving its collar. Here, the killer Terminator discovers that it had been tricked. (Remember when the Terminator, using John’s voice, asked about the family dog using the wrong name, and the T-1000 didn’t know any better?) There are also a couple of dream sequences that adds to Sarah’s anxiety and helps to convince her that the right thing to do is to kill Dyson. This is quite simply one of the greatest sequels and action movies ever made and it also has a place in history for it’s groundbreaking use of CG. Definitely a “5 Star Rating” film.