RoboCop 2

Plot synopsis:
After the success of the RoboCop program, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has a new scheme to have Detroit completely under their control. They plan to have the city default on its debt, then foreclose on the entire city, taking over its government. They will then replace the old neighborhoods with Delta City, a new planned city center independent of the United States government.
To rally public opinion behind urban redevelopment and Delta City construction, OCP sparks an increase in street crime. As Detroit Police Department is owned by OCP, they terminate police pension plans and cut salaries, triggering a police strike. RoboCop, due to his directives, is unable to strike and remains on duty with his partner, Anne Lewis. The two raid a manufacturing plant of Nuke, a new designer drug that has been plaguing the streets of Detroit. RoboCop kills all the criminals, except for a young criminal named Hob, who shoots him and escapes.
Meanwhile, OCP struggles to develop "RoboCop 2", which is expected to be mass-produced and completely replace police officers. To their frustration, all the newly resurrected officers immediately commit suicide. Dr. Juliette Faxx, an unscrupulous psychologist, concludes that Alex Murphy's strong sense of duty and his moral objection to suicide due to his Roman Catholic religion were the reasons behind his ability to adapt to his resurrection as RoboCop. Faxx convinces the Old Man to let her control the project, this time using a criminal with a desire for power and immortality. Despite other executives' objection, Faxx is allowed to proceed.
Nuke's distributor, the power-hungry Cain, feels threatened by the Delta City plan. He fears that he will lose his market if the city is redeveloped into a capitalistic utopia. He is assisted by his girlfriend Angie, his apprentice Hob, and Duffy, a corrupt police officer and Nuke addict. RoboCop tracks down Duffy and beats Cain's location out of him. He confronts Cain's gang at an abandoned construction site, but is overwhelmed. The criminals cut apart his body and dump the pieces in front of his precinct. Cain has Duffy tortured to death for revealing their location, and forces Hob to watch.
RoboCop is repaired, but Faxx reprograms him with over 300 new directives, severely impeding his ability to perform his duties. One of his original technicians suggests that a massive electrical charge might reboot his system. RoboCop shocks himself with a high voltage transformer. The charge erases all of his directives, including the original ones, allowing him to be in complete control. Murphy motivates the officers to aid him in raiding Cain's hideout. As Cain tries to escape, RoboCop intercepts and heavily wounds him. Hob escapes and takes control of Cain's drug empire. Believing she can control him with Nuke, Faxx selects Cain for the RoboCop 2 project, and puts his brain in a towering and heavily armed body.
Hob arranges a meeting with the Detroit mayor, saying that the mayor needs to institute a "hands off" policy towards Nuke. In exchange, Hob presents the mayor with a truckload of cash and gold in order to retire the city's debt to OCP, which would nullify the Delta City project. Threatened by this move, OCP sends RoboCop 2/Cain to the meeting to kill Hob. Cain slaughters everyone in sight, except for the mayor who manages to escape. He kills Angie by breaking her neck and fatally wounds Hob. As RoboCop arrives, Hob identifies the attacker and dies.
During the unveiling ceremony for Delta City and RoboCop 2, the Old Man presents a canister of Nuke as a symbol of the current crime wave. Seeing Nuke, Cain goes berserk and attacks the crowd. RoboCop arrives and fights Cain. The two battle throughout the building, and the fight eventually extends to the street. The police force arrives and engages Cain, who opens fire at officers and civilians alike. RoboCop recovers the Nuke canister and has Lewis give it to Cain, who stops fighting to administer the drug to himself. As Cain feels the drug's effect, RoboCop leaps onto his back, shoots through his armor and rips out his brain. He crushes the brain, ending Cain's rampage.
The Old Man decides to scapegoat Faxx to escape blame, and leaves. As Lewis complains that OCP is escaping accountability again, RoboCop insists they must be patient because "We're only human."

Tags: gothic, murder, violence, good versus evil, satire, revenge, sci-fi

Review:
Plot: RoboCop 2 is the 1990 sequel to RoboCop. Peter Weller returns as the cybernetic law enforcement officer, who now battles an even more sadistic gang led by a deranged killer known as Cain (Tom Noonan), while mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products prepares to take private ownership of Detroit and unveil a new, more powerful law enforcement unit.
Let me quote Paul Verhoeven's commentary about the original: "the whole style of the movie is 'too much'".The real failing of this sequel lies in the story, which is full of threads that are either resolved badly (the attempt to reprogram RoboCop with new directives) or not resolved at all (RoboCop's memories of his wife).
The weaponry on this cyborg was quite impressive as well.The actors in this film did a fine job, I can't think of any that I disliked and the direction of Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) was quite good as well.Even though I liked this film a great deal, I still wouldn't recommend it to everyone.
This movie has a much better climax than the original, and the final moments of violence at the ending have some of the best special effects I have ever seen(without the use of cgi)in a movie.My problem is that people always accuse films like this of not being realistic enough.
The film is full of violence but it's mainly of the long-range bullets-hit-bad-guys type: the only thing close to the original's over-the-top nature was the brain removal and the stomach-slicing.Phil Tippett is on hand, luckily, to deliver some entertaining stop-motion action scenes which really liven up the final scenes of carnage.Sadly, the bad guys never come across as meanly as Clarence Boddicker did in the first, OCP seem unnecessarily annoying and the little kid is just annoying.
I am surprised to see that this movie is bashed almost by everyone, i am in the minority that enjoyed this movie.RoboCop 2 is directed by Irvin Kershner, director of 5th episode of the Star Wars saga, "The Empire Strikes Back".Plot: A new dangerous drug called "Nuke" is circulating in the streets manufactured by the god-delirious "Kane"....now Alex "Robocop" Murphy as a new enemy to fight !
Some of the stars complained about the movie being "Too violent" and "negative", probably this is the reason why we don't see Peter Weller RoboCop 3RoboCop 2 still contains some satire, like in the first one, but if i tell you i will be forced to spoil something.Too bad that it's followed by the kid friendly "Robocop 3"......
As with the first movie there are newsclips hinting of the helplessness of the time, where environmental catastrophes come one straight after another, holes multiplying in the dam, with not enough fingers and toes to stop up them all.This movie gets a bad rap maybe because it is not as flawless as the original RoboCop, for example the baddie Cain (Tom Noonan) is pretty listless compared to Clarence Boddiker from the first movie, and it's genuinely a nastier piece of work, however it contains its fair share of iconic moments, and ends up closer to being a horror movie than anything else, just absolutely haunting..
Overall the story is a little weak, but Robocop 2 gets a 10 out of 10 stars great sci fi action movie.
Whenever I'm done with one story I always wait in anticipation for the next and I'm always wondering what will happen next, this sequel didn't disappoint me yeah I know I'm probably in the minority on this but I think this is a really good if criminally underrated sequel.There are just a lot of things I really like about it the fact the script is written by one of my favorite comic book writers "Frank Miller".
But I still really like this sequel all the same I think it's good in it's own way, I consider this sequel scenario B in my book.But getting down more to the jist of it, The score is great, I love the new theme of Robocop there is slightly more light touch to it where it still has that epic heroic tone but also slight comic book sensibility to it.I like the really really dark setting, we see that OCP has really fraked up bad, Detroit City practically looks like "Hell on Earth", everything is just completely out of control there is crime left and right, let alone one too many lawbreakers enough to give Robo a field day.
But anyway practically all hell breaks loose both are just their just shooting the crap out of each other, they go though walls and floors, it even goes to the city streets of Detroit, cops are joining in the fight, there are explosions and multiple casualties it's just completely crazy but awesome.The only misfire of the film is in that scene where both Alex Murphy/Robocop and his wife Elen have a meeting, that scene did nothing for the film and just felt like one that should of been deleted, since the film wasn't even going to bother tackling Robo's human dilemma like in the first film why even have it at all.Robocop 2 despite not quite as good as the first it still has enough firepower to get the job done.Rating: 3 and a half stars.
I've always had a soft-spot for directors who use stop-motion animation rather than computer graphics (which were starting to take hold around the time) - directors such as Sam Raimi - it has such an amusing giggle quality to it.I won't bore you with the plot, but I would have to say that along with Godfather II, Empire Strikes Back (which I believe was done by the same director), Aliens and (dare I say it) Superman 2, that this is a better sequel, despite loving the original.
Violent Fun. Sure, the film's storyline is like that of a Comic Book, but if you enjoy to watch Peter Weller play as Robocop, the Gun-Totin' Law Enforcer of the future, this movie is as fun as the first, and better than the 3rd (which wasn't very good at all, and lacked Peter Weller)The movie actually has some suspenseful moments, but it's main purpose is to serve the bloody shoot-out craving in most of us.If you compare it to Robocop's Comic Book Spin-Offs, Cartoon Spin-Offs, and even TV Series Spin-Offs, Robocop 2 is a classic film..
How can you go wrong with a script by Frank Miller (comic book writer/artist responsible for "The Dark Knight Returns" and many years on Marvel's "Daredevil") and the director of "The Empire Strikes Back?" In my book, "R2" picks up exactly where the original left off, with more action, better character development, and maintains the sly sense of humor of the first film.
Robocop 2 sure looks good on paper: Irvin Kershner directing, whose Empire Strikes Back gets as many votes as the others for best in the Star Wars series, and Frank Miller writing, the comic book writer/artist whose Batman revisions sparked a renaissance in the genre in the late 1980s.
Additionally, both are working from the surprisingly entertaining premise of the original Robocop, in which a deceased cop is resurrected as a law-and-order killing machine with identity problems.The sequel is all but unrecognizable, with hardly two enjoyable minutes to be found in the entirity of this gritty, spiteful film.
This film was a pale imitation of it's predecessor, lacking in the originality and humor that made Robocop 1 such a great movie.
The first shots of the film depicting a decrepit like Detroit are a great example of this.Not only was Robocop 2 able to pack in decent dialogue to move the story along and gobs of action that looked sufficiently believable (considering the fact that Robocop can't run,jump, or duck) than anything I've seen coming out today (The Matrix has been over done, played out), you get a lesson in corporate politics on what could happen when a democratic city government seeks help from a large corporation (OCP) to keep it from going bankrupt.
Robocop 1 was a good movie no doubt, but Robocop 2 is a great example of what you can do with special effects to carry a film that critics say didn't have a strong cast or plot line.
The villain in robocop 2 (Cain, in human form and especially robot form) has stood out to be the best villian I've even seen to balance out that of good and evil in a movie.
It appears that I'll have to be the one to create the next action packed special effects "Ultra Violent" film considering that I've seen no movie come close (that's right, in the year is 2003) to anything robocop 2 ever did.
The story is all over the place, characters disappear and we don't know what happened them, and most, if not all, of the scenes which flesh out Murphy's human side are edited out, why?The original plot for this film is brilliant, and I believe that if it had have been used then RoboCop 2 would have been a much better film, and the RoboCop franchise would still be going strong today, and we may even have had a RoboCop 4 in the last 90's.If MGM want to make some decent money, they should release a Directors Cut version of the film which would contain the 15/20 minutes of extra footage that we never saw.
The graphic violence of the original film was used to great satirical effect and was often sardonically humorous, such as ED-209 blowing a company exec to bits at a board meeting, or it had a real point; Clarence Boddicker's biblical execution of Murphy.
RoboCop is undeniably one of the most defining movies of the 80s, so when the sequel comes out everyone expects it to be just as good if not better than the original.
The prototype RoboCop 2's that kill themselves was pretty funny as is the scene where RoboCop stops in the middle of the street shoots at a guy then tells him "thankyou for not smoking".The film takes on lots of plots and ideas and then never really delivers the goods, you've got RoboCop stalking his wife and child yet the relationship or his reactions to the fact that he can never have a relationship again is never explored, its just left hanging - just like the Frankenstein plot of RoboCop 2 - why does the female doctor hate RoboCop anyhow?
That scene was not needed.Anyhow the obligitary stop-motion end fight sequence is nothing to right home about.This film is not as good as the first one, in some respects it tries too hard to mirror Verhoven's efforts in overly violent images and plot themes yet doesn't have the same feel that the original had.Overall: 4/10.
man this movie has it all,and i don't mane that In good way.i didn't think the acting was very good in this one.i also thought a lot of the humour in it was mean spirited.and don't get me started on the story.i just found it beyond the bounds of reality even for this type of movie.maybe this movie is supposed to be absurd.if so,it succeeded.the thing about the original is it had some heart and soul to it.i didn't see any of that in this one.Peter Weller and Nancy Allen are back for this one,and they try hard,i think,but they don't have too much to work with.on paper,this movie may have looked like it would work,but i think it lost something in the translation.where the first one managed to look like it had a budget of some sort,this one,looks low budget,and not in a good way.i'm sure it's hard to tell,when you're making a movie if it will work or not so i'll give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt.by that,i mean they probably thought they were making a good movie.some people might like it,but i just found it tedious.having said that,this movie is nowhere near the worst movie i have ever seen.it could have been so much better true,but it could have been worse.so,i'll give "RoboCop 2" 4/10.
But "RoboCop 2" takes the great ideas, imagination and characters of the original and replaces them with all the stereotypes that sequels have to offer.The beginning commercial was cute and so was the scene that follows (reminiscent of the beginning in "Guys and Dolls"!)  but aside from a flash of thought here and there, this is one film that is a slow, dirty slog down into the middle of nowhere.Ideas are introduced then dropped, interesting characters from the original hardly get any screen time here, most of the new characters (Cain, Juliette Faxx) are so boring that they wouldn't hold up no matter what the movie, and then there's the tone.In the Blessed Original, Paul Verhoeven knew how to direct with the kind of attitude where if you cranked up the attitude and the sensibility of a good pulp comic, even the most repellent violence would be entertaining.
Every few years I find myself thinking if RoboCop 2 was really as bad as I remembered it being, or was I projecting my enjoyment of it's predecessor on the sequel -- then after about 2 minutes into yet another viewing, it's clear just how off the mark this film is.
Peter Weller has also complained that the film has no real 3rd act and he is right, the film begins all these plot threads about Detroit being manipulated by OCP, Murphy stalking his family, nuke addiction, political corruption, police strikes and so on - and every thread is dropped to have a machine brawl for an ending.
BLAM!"): although Kershner proved himself capable of putting together a slick, family-friendly sci-fi sequel with The Empire Strikes Back, he's clearly way out of his depth when dealing with the kind of gritty, über-violent, and wickedly satirical content that is second nature for Hollywood bad-boy Verhoeven.As one might expect, there are lots of explosions, gunfire, bloody bullet hits, and special effects on show, but Kirshner plays it all way too safe, displaying none of the excess or imagination that made the first film such an incredible experience.
When you factor in a surprisingly poor script from comic geek favourite Frank Miller, an uninspired performance from star Peter Weller that feels more like contractual obligation rather than a genuine yearning to reprise the role, a forgettable main bad guy in the form of Tom Noonan (with a bloody kid as his sidekick!), and some weak attempts at mimicking the original's wry humour, what you have is a sequel that just about satisfies on the most basic of levels (it's got guns and robots and Nancy Allen), but can only be seen as a disappointment when compared to its predecessor.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb..
I usually dont care that much for sequels but this is one major exception it almost surpasses the original it is very under rated and that makes me mad what people say about alot of movies makes me made  Well, this movie continues the story of robocop in classic robocop fashion great over kill and interesting new ways to kill criminals.
It has the level of violence as we've seen in the original movie, but the plot is very different, and that's what I liked the most about this sequel.
It's good that a sequel was made, but I think RoboCop 2 is still an average movie at best..
Noonan was decent as Cain, but was a little too "hammy" at times.Overall, RoboCop 2 is a good film, and a worthy, albeit flawed, successor to the original.
I really tried like it yesterday when l'd watched on Blu-ray,even in high definition didn't change the bad feeling about almost 16 years before,l realize that comic book style oriented in the whole picture by Kershner,children stealing a shop,bad guys stealing tin can of an old homeless woman,a child leading a gang is too much and improper to young audiences,not to mention a few appearences of Nancy Allen...anyway a strong color of neverending violence,also a hard SFX mixed with a bad ultimate Robocop angry by a new drug...it didn't work out seriously as did the first one!!Resume:First watch: 1992 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6.25.
They feel like they were there too fill up screen-time that could of gone into adding more characterisation into Murphy or Annie.The biggest problem with Robocop 2 is that it takes all the subtle clever corporate America satire from the original, and bashes It over your head until you're dizzy, which Is the difference between a good film and a bad one..
I've only remember seeing bits of this film when I was younger but I don't remember seeing this film in it's entirety and now that I have seen it in full, I think it's a OK film, it's not too bad of a sequel.The action and the special effects actually were quite good, the movie made good use of mainly animatronics and stop motion techniques which were common use for the time period this came out.Like any action film it has lots of violence, gun shooting and explosions.
From the director of Empire Strikes Back, the sequel to the 1987 classic is clearly designed to be a little more mainstream, quite it isn't a bad film, it certainly lacks the original's satire and a lot of the human element.RoboCop 2 sees the OCP corporation looking to refine the RoboCop Law Enforcement Unit with a new design, but cannot recreate the perfect blend of man and machine such as Alex Murphy.
It's a comic book with lots of money behind it, and does its job properly.Irvin Kershner did with this film the same thing he did with "The Empire Strikes Back" - He took the original movie and amped it up to eleven.See both in a row, but avoid "Robocop 3" at all costs!.