RoboCop 2

"He's back to protect the innocent."

1990 1h 57m EN

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★6.0TMDB · 2,227

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Synopsis

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After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.

“He's back to protect the innocent.”

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Cast

Peter Weller
RoboCop
Nancy Allen
Officer Anne Lewis
Tom Noonan
Cain
Belinda Bauer
Dr. Juliette Faxx
Willard E. Pugh
Mayor Kuzak
Dan O'Herlihy
The Old Man
Felton Perry
Donald Johnson
Gabriel Damon
Hob

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Irvin Kershner
Writers: Walon Green, Frank Miller, Frank Miller
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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36 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "RoboCop Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Irvin Kershner, shot by Mark Irwin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Leonard Rosenman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Armen Minasian shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Peter Weller and Nancy Allen and Tom Noonan carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "He's back to protect the innocent.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0100502 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Irvin Kershner directs. Mark Irwin behind the camera. Leonard Rosenman scores. Armen Minasian cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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136 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "RoboCop Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Irvin Kershner, shot by Mark Irwin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Leonard Rosenman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Armen Minasian shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Peter Weller and Nancy Allen and Tom Noonan carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "He's back to protect the innocent.".
8IMDB entry: tt0100502 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 10 themes, including "police", "cyborg", "sequel", "cyberpunk".

The technical file

Cinematography: Mark Irwin
Original score: Leonard Rosenman
Editing: Armen Minasian
Production design: Peter Jamison
Costume design: Rosanna Norton
Makeup / hair: Cheri Montesanto
Sound: Stephen Hunter Flick
Stunt coordinator: Conrad E. Palmisano
Runtime: 117 min · 1h 57m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $35,000,000
Box office: $45,681,173
Return: 131% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: RoboCop 2 (1990)

Part of

RoboCop Collection

RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy who is brutally shot to death by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as "RoboCop". Collection includes 2 sequels.

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Gimly2018-09-08
★ 6/10
It's not so much that it's terrible, it's just that it's disappointing after the immeasurable success of the original movie. Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go.
CinemaSerf2022-06-11
★ 5/10
I wasn't the biggest fan of the first of these, but this a far cry from even that! "Robocop" (Peter Weller) is doing his best, but Detroit has become even more lawless with half the population addicted to a potent drug, and it now also faces a bankruptcy that will allow the all consuming OCP to take over the city from the enthusiastic, but out of his depth "Mayor Kuzak" (Willard Pugh). Just to make certain of success, the big boss, Dan O'Herlihy, develops a "Robocop 2" - this time using the dastardly criminal brain of arch criminal "Cain" - the man behind the drug - as the human template. Can the prototype take on and defeat his much more sophisticated rival and save the city? Perhaps Irvin Kershner wanted to take a pop at corporate greed, or megalomania, or bad government or maybe even the inane human nature of the empowered mob, but whatever his plan was, we end up with a sort of faintly comedic hybrid of "Terminator" (1984) by way of "Bugsy Malone" (1976) with some metallic action routines that could easily have been formulated better in clay by Ray Harryhausen. The story is all over the place, indeed Weller hardly features at all for much of it and by the time it does start to liven up I really wasn't sure if this was a spoof! The highly-pitched "Robocop" signature tune said it all - this is just, well, not very good!
justhappytobehere2024-01-22
★ 9/10
The first thing anyone can say about this movie, and should say, is that it isn't RoboCop. But that should be said for all reviews for all movies always. Yet, this is still one of the best sequels ever put together to any movie anywhere at any time. Weller is outstanding again. How can stuffing a man into a foam latex suit and have him clip clop around in front of a camera work so well? Its mind blowing.