"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
RoboCop 2 is the 1990 follow up to 1987's RoboCop (you can check out my review of that one here), and it suffers from what so many other sequels do: It gives you more of what you liked from the first film, tries to go bigger and bolder, but ends up unable to recapture the magic of the original.
A half-man/half-robot police officer is already a pretty nutty premise, and so what does RoboCop 2 offer? Another half-man/half-robot, except this one has the brain of a former drug dealer and is addicted to narcotics...
Just like in the first film, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) is dead set on tearing down old, crime-riddled Detroit and, in it's place, building 'Delta City'. To increase public support for the Delta City project, OCP (who owns the Detroit Police Department) cuts the police salaries which leads to a police strike and an increase in crime. RoboCop however doesn't go on strike because he's a robot, what does he care?
A half-man/half-robot police officer is already a pretty nutty premise, and so what does RoboCop 2 offer? Another half-man/half-robot, except this one has the brain of a former drug dealer and is addicted to narcotics...
Just like in the first film, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) is dead set on tearing down old, crime-riddled Detroit and, in it's place, building 'Delta City'. To increase public support for the Delta City project, OCP (who owns the Detroit Police Department) cuts the police salaries which leads to a police strike and an increase in crime. RoboCop however doesn't go on strike because he's a robot, what does he care?
Early on, RoboCop raids a manufacturing plant where they make a new, highly-addictive drug called Nuke, and he kills all the
criminals except for a kid named Hob, a character that is arguably the worst part of this movie. Meanwhile, OCP is trying to develop a "RoboCop 2", with the intention of replacing all of the police officers, and for some reason a psychologist named Dr. Juliette Faxx thinks that putting the brain of a criminal in the robot is a good idea. It isn't long before a drug lord named Cain (played by Tom Noonan) is killed and his brain is placed inside of a model 2 RoboCop. As you would expect, this was a terrible idea and creates the big villain of the film. Of course, in the end, the original RoboCop defeats the new model.
As I stated at the beginning, they tried to duplicate the success of the first film by having just as much violence and action, but somewhere in the process they forgot to write a good movie. Now, it's not unwatchable and it's definitely not as bad as RoboCop 3. There are some fun moments, decent action scenes and solid special effects, but unless you really loved the first film, I wouldn't recommend this sequel.
I give it a 2.5 out of 5.
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