RoboCop 2 RoboCop 2 RoboCop 2 is a 1990 American cyberpunk action film directed by Irvin Kershner, written by Frank Miller and Walon Green, and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. It is the first sequel to the 1987 film, "RoboCop" and the second entry in the "RoboCop" media franchise. Set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, the plot centers around the eponymous RoboCop (Weller) as he becomes in embroiled in a scheme by Omni Consumer Products to bankrupt and take over the city while also fighting the spread of
RoboCop 2 of "The New York Times" wrote, "Unlike "RoboCop", a clever and original science-fiction film with a genuinely tragic vision of its central character, "Robocop 2" doesn't bother to do anything new. It freely borrows the situation, characters and moral questions posed by the first film." She further adds, "The difference between "Robocop" and its sequel, [...] is the difference between an idea and an afterthought." She also expressed her opinion about the Hob character, "The aimlessness of "Robocop 2" runs so deep that after exploiting the inherent shock value of such an innocent-looking killer, the film tries to capitalize on