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Summary: "I really like this gun man"
Review: My advice is: watch #1 first and don't waste your money on #3. All the bad guys from Robo 1 have been killed off, Peter Weller and Nancy Allen (remember her from "Carrie"?) have survived and now we have a new evil, sinister bad guy (Cain) who is drug lord supreme. He is distributing the highly addictive drug "nuke" and people are willing to steal and even kill for it ("nuke me baby"). A kid of about 10 going on 30 is one of his accomplices and is very handy with an automatic weapon. Detroit owes OCP something like 50 million and they're demanding payment. The mayor is incensed over this but can't even come close to raising the money with a talent telethon. Guess who comes to the rescue? Not Cain, his life support system has been pulled and he's been transformed into RoboCop 2. The kid has the money and the mayor is more than happy to accept such a generous offer. By the way, Cain was in a little automobile accident. Don't play chicken on a motorcycle going up against an armor plated van, not unless you're RoboCop. That's a basic outline of the movie. And don't tell me you liked #1 but the violence in this one was too much. I admit, there is more gratuitous violence, but what do you expect? This is Detroit, not Rocky Top, Tennessee. But what I still don't get about this movie is how does Robo know his car is going to get blown to smithereens when he goes to find Cain at the River Rouge plant? And why isn't he detected getting out of the car? And another thing, when the bad cop (Duffy) ends up in the operating room I think you should "Have the kid leave".
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Summary: I enjoyed it
Review: It may not be a sci-fi/action masterpiece, but Robocop 2 is an entertaining, inriguing, sometimes-bizarre, often-violent piece of work. The original "Robocop" was certainly a better film, but how often does a sequel surpass the original? Not very. I like Robocop 2. It continues the story with the full cast from the first, including numerous supporting roles, and boasts some enjoyable sequences. The opposing auto-machine in this film is named "Robocop 2" but seems more like a faster, lightweight version of the original opposing robot. This film has some comedy, in the form of bizarre TV commercial interludes, an ultra-hyper mayor, and a little reprogamming done to Robocop. The best sequence in the film is saved for last, when we see the final showdown between the two robotic crime-fighters. This film also contains one of the more memorable kids in action movie history: a VERY foul-mouthed 12-year old leader of the drug gang. All in all its not gonna win any awards or be considered for one of the best sci-fi movies ever, but its a pretty fun way to pass by a couple hours.
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Summary: Robocop's Back In Action!
Review: Just what did people want out of a sequel to Robocop? A great action-packed thrill-ride!! And that's just what this movie is.
Robocop 2 is the type of movie men cream their pants over, gun-fire galore, explosions, spectacular special effects! Everything! Peter Weller returns as Robo, and Irvin Kershner, who directed The Empire Strikes Back, delivers another excellent flick sequel!
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Summary: Not Much Here.
Review: ROBOCOP is a classic 80's action movie. ROBOCOP 2 should have been a decent sequel, after all the screen play was written by Frank Miller, the guy responsible for revitalizing Batman, and it was directed by Irvin Kershner (THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK). Unfortunately, the movie isn't all that great. Kershner did a decent job with what material he had, but he didn't have much. The movie is dry and lacks the empathy and humor of the original. In fact, the film is basically a complete rehash of the original (without the origins of RoboCop). Therefore, instead of a classic 80's action film, ROBOCOP 2 is just an average nihilistic action flick.
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Summary: Step aside.....
Review: This sequel to "Robocop" got panned mostly because the first movie was just so good. In this one, "Robo" fights the battle for truth and justice against both Caine, an evil drug dealer, and the corrupt corporate heads of OCP, the company that built him and essentially runs Detroit. No surprise, the two have more in common than being bad to the bone. While Cain skirts justice using his underworld muscle and his monopoly on a hyper-addictive drug called "Nuke", OCP searches for a way to make Robo more compliant with their demands, or obsolete by replacing him. (As in the first flick, OCP seeks to build a brand new Detroit, sparkling and Utopian, but that will require using criminals to essentially eradicate the Detroit still standing). While Robo hunts for Caine, an OCP cyberneticist messes with Robo's head - making him "sensitive" (he shoots a cigarette out of a smoker's mouth; tries to "scare-straight" a gang of little-leaguers turned looters - this flick came out as feel-good yuppie-ism gave way to the PC-era). Much of the film recycles the first - from the cynical media inserts to the early bloody shootout in the abandoned factory. The script tosses in a laughably pathetic telethon to save Detroit from outright foreclosure (a hint at "Americathon 2000", featuring a hillbilly who can fiddle Steppenwolf in any position) but then hops things up with a mammoth gunbattle between Robo and a new cybercop with Caine's mind jacked into it. Unable to sustain the dark humor of the firs flick, R2 sticks with unending violence. Much of what's wrong with the flick is how its makers forgot the lesson of the first: "Robocop" was never supposed to be about Robocop - that's why it had all those fun characters (Ronny Cox, Miguel Ferrer, Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Bodicker with his cronies, and Dan Herlihy as the "Old Man"). The film wouldn't be such a problem if it at least looked different from the first, but its recycling of "Robocop" spoils any fun of seeing both movies. Get the first movie and forget they ever turned it into a franchise.
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Summary: A well done movie!
Review: This movie was really great! I don't usually watch this type of film, but my favorite actor, Gabriel Damon, was in it so I picked it up at the store. All the actors were fantastic, especially Gabriel! The plot was original and well written. I haven't seen the first RoboCop, but I didn't need to see it to understand it's sequel. I recommend it to any fan of Gabriel's work and to anyone looking for a great movie!
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Summary: Great, for what it is.
Review: Too many people judge this film too harshly. As a slice of undemanding pure hokum it rocks. It wasn't made to be a great. cinematic masterpiece, just a slab of entertainment. But it does have a truckload of irony and is very well written by Frank Miller (Batman comic-books). I do wish that Verhoeven returned for this one but Kirshner's direction is entirely adequate.Leonard Rosenman ditches Basil Poledouris' score and comes up with an entirely new and heroic theme that will surely delight. Everything about this movie is entirely lighthearted and most of the funny bits are quite amazing. Keep this in mind when you watch it and you'll have a good time. The DVD is in Dolby Stereo, which is not very good at all and is letterboxed at 1.85:1 with a dodgy picture that is hard to watch sometimes. There are no special features at all and the menu page is the chapter selection. One of the most barebones DVDs of them all unfortunately.
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Summary: Bad Movie
Review: This movie was not good. The plot is bad, the acting is bad and the only good thing is the stop-motion. The rest of the movie was bad. Why did they make it. That's all there is to say about it.
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Summary: One of the best cheesy movies
Review: I love this movie to no end, but it is by no means a good movie. Its one of those cheesy movies that comes on around 1 AM, sure the plot is completely original from the first movie as Robocop, a cyborg created to help police the mean streets of Detroit city in the year 2055 must now fight against a drug known only as Nuke. There is a sub plot too, as the company that manufactured Robocop are trying to create a second Robocop, but they do not succeed until the end of the movie (big battle). This movie has such poor casting in it, take for instance the mayor of Detroit is only 20 or 25 years old, the drug lord, is a bald man in his 40s and one of the main bad guys in the movie is a 12 year old played by Malcom (from Malcom in the Middle). This movie has an overabundance of unneeded violence as Robocop shoots first, then arrests the bad guys. It also has some pretty funny parts in it, some are funny-funny others are just plain so stupid you have to laugh. Even with all of my bad remarks about this movie there is lots of action, for every five minutes of dialog like "freeze dirt-bag," there are ten minutes of shooting, brawling and bad guy busting.
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Summary: Robocop 2: A great sequel!
Review: I think Robocop 2 is a great sequel especially because of the direction. Director Irvin Kershner could clearly understand what
the first movie was about. The dark humor, the violence , the struggle of a man becoming machine and all the elements that made the original a success is again on the second movie, also the plot is very entertaining. Definetly a sci-fi masterpiece!
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