Monday, August 18, 2008

Film Review - Robocop 2 (1990)

Robocop 2 continues the events of Alex Murphy/Robocop, played again by Peter Weller and this time, Detroit has gone from bad to worse, caught in the grip of a new drug called Nuke, but while that goes on, Robocop is being put offline and upgraded with a new model containing the brain of a drug kingpin and on top of that, OCP plans to bankrupt Detroit so it can be taken private.

Where as I greatly admired the original Robocop, to me this film was an absolute utter mess that goes all over the place and relies on endless amounts of sex, violence and foul language, almost everyone in this movie is armed with shotguns, assault rifles, mini guns, cannons and/or pistols, as well as this, you have a 12 year old as a drug kingpin, a contradiction of events from the first film and a finale ripped straight out of Die Hard.

So in closing, 0 out of 5 for this dark, depressing mess of a sequel.

1 comment:

Nathan said...

NO stars!? Not even one for that robot that shoots himself in the head?? That's worth like 3 stars alone in my book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJDztqCG91g

That's A grade my friend.