User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/RoboCop 2

}} RoboCop 2 is a 1990 cyberpunk, action film directed by Irvin Kershner (Yes, the same director who directed The Empire Strikes Back) and it was distributed by Orion Pictures. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon. It's a sequel to smash-hit 1987 film RoboCop.

Plot
Three years after the events of the first film, Detroit is on the verge of bankruptcy after failing to pay off its debts to conglomerate Omni Consumer Products (OCP). The OCP plans to develop cyborgs to replace the police officers in Detroit. Psychologist Juliette Faxx creates one with a criminal's brain, leading to chaos in the city and RoboCop must save everyone.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The film actually predicted 2013's Detroit filing for bankruptcy in the future!
 * 1) The film actually predicted 2013's Detroit filing for bankruptcy in the future!

Bad Qualties

 * 1) It is generally considered not as good as the first film, and some of the elements were rehashed from the original film.

Reception
RoboCop 2 received mixed reviews from critics, it has a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 37 reviews with an average rating of 4.7 out of 10. The site's consensus reads, "A less satisfying rehash that generally lives down to the negative stereotype of sequels, Robocop 2 tries to deliver more of everything and ends up with less". On Metacritic, it has a 42/100 based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Despite having mixed reviews from critics, it was well received by some critics, and fans of the first film, Jay Scott, of The Globe and Mail, was one of the few prominent critics who admired the film calling it a "sleek and clever sequel. For fans of violent but clever action films, RoboCop 2 may be the sultry season's best bet: you get the gore of Total Recall and the satiric smarts of Gremlins 2: The New Batch in one high-tech package held together by modest B-movie strings. RoboCop 2 alludes to classics of horror and science-fiction (Frankenstein, Metropolis, Westworld), for sure, but it also evokes less rarefied examples of the same genres–Forbidden Planet, Godzilla, and that Z-movie about Hitler's brain in a bottle. It's ironic that the directorial coach of the first RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven, went on to Total Recall; couldn't he see that the script for Robo 2 was sleeker and swifter than Arnie's cumbersome vehicle? His absence in the driver's seat is happily unnoticed because Irvin Kershner, the engineer of sequels that often zip qualitatively past the originals (The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of a Man Called Horse, and the best Sean Connery–James Bond of all, Never Say Never Again), has tuned-up the premise until it purrs."

Many considered widely considered to be the best of the RoboCop  sequels, and as well as the plot element of Detroit's bankruptcy received attention from the news media after this actually happened in 2013.