Uncovering a Major Flaw in Terminator 2: Judgment Day at the 108th Minute

On arm cadabra

Ah, Terminator 2. For many, it may be THE benchmark action film of the 90s and probably one of the best feature films of its genre, period. A Schwarzy in top form, an icy antagonist played brilliantly by Robert Patrick, a James Cameron more effective than ever in directing… No, really, we never tire of it.

Thirty-three years after its theatrical release, you can imagine that the film has had time to be deciphered frame by frame: at the 108th minute there is a rather intriguing fact, where we can see the T-1000 pilot a helicopter while shooting a gun. The problem, is that he holds a submachine gun that he reloads – which therefore requires two hands – while two other hands are in control of the machine. For a total of four arms, therefore…

Everything is explained

Four arms for a character who is supposed to have only two: this could totally be a false connection. But in reality it turns out not: it's explained story-wiset and this time, it was the actor Robert Patrick himself who spilled the beans in a commented version of the film.

A lot of people have also said to me: “you know, in that helicopter scene, we can see that you have four arms, we can see the stuntman's arms”. But that's not true, because the T-1000 is constantly armed and when he was piloting the helicopter, he realized that the only way for him to reload his weapon and fire was to be pushed twice. additional arms, to be able to control the joystick of the helicopter and the trigger of its machine gun.”

We recall that the great particularity of T-1000 lies in its ability to be polymorphic : hence the possibility of growing two arms without blinking, therefore. Luck.

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