RoboCop 2 | | Cast : | Peter Weller | | Director : | Irvin Kershner | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 22, 1990 | | DVD Released Date : | June 08, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 20, 2005 | | Summary | OCP | Content
 | OCP ae the one's running Detroit the cops are going on strike but not Robocop. He useto be human known as Officer Alex Murphy. He is trying to take down a drug lord name Caine who makes drugs call nuke this red stuff that people put in their necks. In the in Caine body die's but his brain gets inside this big giant robot call Robocop 2 thinking it will replace the original Robocop but this woman but in a brain of a criminal which she miss up big time. This movie is better then Robocop 1 cause the first movie had more comedy scenes for an R rated movie and Robocop 3 was a mess up big time it being rated PG-13 making it a kids movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 06, 2005 | | Summary | And now...a word on nutrition | Content
| Robocop 2 is probably the most under-rated and most harshly criticized sequel in history (tying with Predator 2, which came out the same year). Because of a few missing elements from the first and a slightly more cartoonish approach to the violence, the critics and public alike were not pleased and opinions and feelings toward the franchise nosedived with the just plain awful Robocop 3.
Don't con yourself out of a good movie though. Robocop 2 still has the same savage sense of humor, cynical social commentary and character pathos of the first film. It's a hyper-realistic vision of an America populated by gun-loving psychos, a democracy owned by big business and the poverty-stricken addicted to drugs dealt to them by peddlers believing themselves to be the second coming of Christ.
Far-fetched could be the typical way of describing it. Completely-over-the-top would be more appropriate. Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner chucks in as much sadistic violence, deafening gunfire, endless destruction and loss of human life that the film just begs you not to take it seriously.
Some of the blame was placed on writer Frank Miller for the film being more cartoonish than the original. I don't think this is very fair. I read Miller's original script when I was in high school and it is rather different and, dare I say, unfilmable. Robocop 2 himself was not Nuke Lord Caine, the psychotic hippie with delusions of Godhood. He was called Kong, a psychotic cop who pretty much killed everybody he came across. Sgt. Reed and the Old Man died and there wasn't much humor. Screenwriter Walon Green was hired to doctor the script and much of what appears on screen is actually his work. Frank Miller's original ideas are pretty much just left as the framework for the whole movie and some of his story was recycled into Robocop 3 (don't blame him for that one either). Miller was obviously upset with this but was still a good enough sport to appear in the film (keep a lookout for him playing Doctor Frank), though he vowed not to work in Hollywood again for fear of being taken advantage of. Until Robert Rodriguez promised to make good on his Sin City graphic novels.
Verhoven may be gone but Irvin Kershner tries hard to deliver the same mix mirth and magic and actually does get it right. Basil Poledouris' brooding score is also gone (it returns in Robocop 3) but new composer Leonard Rosenman creates a wonderfully heroic and upbeat theme that suits the film more than Poledouris' moody, tormented score to the first.
Filmed once again in Texas, Houston this time, you really have to feel for Peter Weller walking around in that Robosuit. It must have weighed a ton and he'd be sweating bucketloads inside. There is a particular scene in the film where Murphy is tortured into near-death/destruction that is very hard to watch. But it does lead to him getting a brand-new makeover and those crazy new directives put into his head. The bit where he lectures the Little League kids and scolds the youngsters playing by the leaky fire hydrant (after quoting some very suspicious philosophy) is hilarious.
Robocop 2 is a great movie. Despite problems with the script and story and some slightly dated stop-motion effects it's a brilliant sequel that lives up to expectations. Do listen to the nay-sayers. I don't know what kind of film they were expecting.
And thank you for not smoking!
The DVD is in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen with eye-popping colors (check out the chrome of Robo's armor) and Dolby 5.1 sound. I am a little sad that there are no extras such as a commentary as I would really have liked to hear what Kershner has to say about the film. And there are deleted scenes that I know of that have Murphy visit his grave and some more details on why Caine is so weird.
Oh well. One can only hope that in the future... |
| Rating | | | Date | May 09, 2005 | | Summary | A Pretty Nice Sequal | Content
| While the Paul Verhoeven movie in 1987 was infinitely better, I disagree with what most of the critics say about "RoboCop 2." It was not great cinema by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a fun little movie with an entertaining plot, even if it did not relate to its prequal. The acting was good, and I was fond of the fact that one of the main bad guys in the movie was a little kid. This brings the question of ethics- should RoboCop fight the youth of America or not, thus violating his program...
I will recomend this movie, especially if you haven't seen the first one (get the first one after seeing this one...) |
| Rating | | | Date | March 29, 2005 | | Summary | Such a amazingly stupid movie, It's made me thing about life | Content
| Whenever I am asked what's the stupidest movie I've ever seen I quickly say Robocop2. I tell them that after I watched it I thought my life would have been better if I had sat on this couch for 2 hours doing nothing. However, I had gotten so much enjoyment telling everyone how bad this movie is maybe I am glad now I've watched it. This is a difficult question. The movie is not funny bad, it's stupid bad. There was not one time I laughed because it was so bad, it's not that kind of bad, it's just dumb and idiotic. It's weird the people in film could produce such worthless trash, I would think they would mostly have better judgment? Hmmm, so this movie has made me think a lot... In the end though, one thing is certain, this is the worst, stupidest, movie I have ever seen
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| Rating | | | Date | March 03, 2005 | | Summary | I can't call this Robocop. I just can't. | Content
| What's wrong with Robocop 2? Everything. In their attempt to reproduce the success of Paul Verhoven's $10 million 1987 sleeper hit producers threw $100 million dollars at Director Irwin Kirchner, and told him to make a better movie. Well that would be hard to do without The two original screenwriters and Paul Verhoven. But since those executives perceived Robocop as just a "comic book" movie they hired a "hot" comic book writer Frank Miller to write the screenplay and "Empire Strikes Back" Director Kirchner to make Robocop. Since the chefs didn't know the recipe they made a mess and called it a movie.
Frank Miller killed the Robocop Franchise with Robocop 2. His horrible screenplay proves that comic book writers know nothing about the medium of film and should stick to 2-D images. He just doesn't understand the depth and complexity of the Robocop fantasy world. The violence in the first Robocop was making a comment about the state of society. The "fake ads" poke fun at the state of society and how we commercialize things that hurt us.
The three stories don't come together to make a complete movie this time like in the first movie. Each seems lost. The first story about OCP trying to replicate the success of the Robocop program just doesn't work here. They need to create an army of Robos to clean up old Detroit so they can build New Detroit. Unfortunately they have no success. The second story is a lame attempt to make a comment on the War on Drugs. Robocop is hot on the trail of Cain a drug lord producing Nuke, a highly addictive substance similar to crack. Robo eventually busts Cain and puts him in a coma. So what do the OCP executives do? They turn the drug lord into Robocop 2, a robot they send out to kill the mayor in their plans to overthrow Old Detroit and build New Detroit. That makes sense to you? Not to me. The final sequence of this movie falls completely apart as Robocop does things that are so stupid you will shake your head. High impact bullets and power tools damage Robocop but a fall off the top of a 100-story building doesn't harm him. In the first movie we knew the Cobra assault cannon was dangerous. It blew ED-209 to bits. But in this movie Robocop 2 isn't scratched with a shot from it. However, the Robocop's auto-9 can shoot off parts of him.
Peter Weller probably realized how bad this script was during the shooting of this film He isn't as riveting here as he was in the first movie. In the opening scenes where the robot follows his wife he's great but the rest of the film he's uninspired. He simply phones it in hoping it doesn't hurt his career. Nancy Allen has absolutely nothing to work with here. She can't share any of the wonderful chemistry she had with Weller in the first movie because the script downplays her role for more stupid stunts and special effects.
I really wish someone else had been involved in the Robocop sequels. Someone with enough vision to see past the "comic book" action and let us get to know the characters in some riveting human drama. There were some great stories to tell like Murphy facing his wife and son, Lewis' feelings regarding Murphy and Murphy coping with being a machine. Throw in some social commentary, violence and politics and this would have been a great continuation of the Robocop franchise. But alas, we have this movie and the equally banal Roblowcop 3. Stick with the original. It's one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.
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