18 Facts About RoboCop 2

1.

RoboCop 2 is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Frank Miller and Walon Green.

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RoboCop 2 has flashbacks to his previous life as Alex Murphy, and has begun watching his wife and son outside their home.

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3.

RoboCop 2 is repaired, but Faxx intentionally reprograms him with new and softer directives with the approval of the OCP Board of Directors that severely impede his ability to perform his duties so that her project can be selected.

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4.

RoboCop 2 eventually clears these by shocking himself with a high voltage transformer and rebooting his system.

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5.

RoboCop 2 arrives to find a wounded Hob, who identifies the attacker before dying.

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6.

RoboCop 2 arrives and fights Cain, and their battle extends to the street.

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7.

RoboCop 2 recovers the Nuke canister and Lewis uses it to distract Cain.

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8.

RoboCop 2 follows numerous subplots, such as Flicker's plan for domination, a violence-spreading narcotic named Smudge, the Internal Grid Security commander trying to commit genocide against the OutPlexers, and RoboCop's code being played with by an American scientist and a Chinese hacker.

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9.

Davison first hired his friend Tim Hunter, most known for River's Edge, to direct RoboCop 2, citing his "realistic tone with actors" and "real dark sensibility" as reasons.

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10.

Allen, despite already having played a cop character in the first RoboCop, still made preparations for shooting RoboCop 2; she learned martial arts and spent two months of training at a Los Angeles police academy.

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11.

Phil Tippett returned from the first RoboCop 2 to do the visual effects for the sequel, this time leading all the effects units.

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12.

The group created a music video featuring RoboCop 2 targeting the band and having a shootout with some bad guys .

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13.

RoboCop 2 debuted as the second-highest-grossing film at the box office in its opening weekend.

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RoboCop 2 alludes to classics of horror and science-fiction, for sure, but it evokes less rarefied examples of the same genres–Forbidden Planet, Godzilla, and that Z-movie about Hitler's brain in a bottle.

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15.

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".

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16.

RoboCop 2 continues the first film's critiques on American capitalism, corporate power and its resulting militarization and other perceived negative impacts; the city's greedy politics continue to benefit only a few, while other citizens have to face problems of crime, pollution, and infrastructure dilapidation due to inadequate restructuring and police strikes.

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Creation of a second RoboCop to repeat the success of the original cyborg can be interpreted as a take on companies making their older products quickly out-of-date in order to keep selling new ones, and RoboCop 2's uncontrolled murdering of humans showcases how corporate entities devalue human life to a variable in an equation.

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18.

Frank Miller's original screenplay for RoboCop 2 was turned into a nine-part comic book series titled Frank Miller's RoboCop.

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