RoboCop 2

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Movie
German title RoboCop 2
Original title RoboCop 2
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Irvin Kershner
script Walon Green
Frank Miller
production Jon Davison
Jane Bartelme
Patrick Crowley
music Leonard Rosenman
camera Mark Irwin
cut Poor Minasian
Deborah Zeitman
William M. Anderson
Lee Smith
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
RoboCop

Successor  →
RoboCop 3

RoboCop 2 is an American science fiction film from 1990 and continuation of the successful film RoboCop from 1987. The film opened on September 13, 1990 in German cinemas.

action

The company Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has the city of Detroit in a stranglehold. She started a police strike and tried to take over the city administration to tear down the old city and put a new one in its place.

Few police officers are still on duty, including RoboCop and his partner Anne Lewis. Due to the absence of a powerful police force, organized crime in the form of Cain's drug gang spreads unhindered. This ensures the rapid spread of the new, highly addictive designer drug "Nuke" . RoboCop therefore takes on the fight against the gang alone. He effortlessly digs out one of the gang's drug labs, but meets Hob, a 12-year-old boy from Cain's gang, who shoots him. RoboCop cannot return fire due to Hob's child age. At the same time, this event triggers a memory of his own son from his previous life, whereupon he begins to observe his former family. These reenactments cause his ex-wife to complain to OCP .

Meanwhile, RoboCop tracks down Hob in an arcade where he is about to bribe the heavily nuke- addicted cop Duffy to get information about future police actions. RoboCop manages to arrest Duffy and learns from him the location of the drug gang's headquarters. He also tries to smoke this out alone, but Cain is armed. RoboCop is overwhelmed, brutally dismantled on Hob's instructions and the individual parts thrown on the street in front of the police station.

OCP, already worried by RoboCop's private reenactments, takes this as an opportunity to carry out repairs under the direction of Dr. Juliette Faxx made extensive changes to his program. This primarily serves the purpose of leaving RoboCop as an outdated model and paving the way for its successor RoboCop 2 , which is also under the direction of Dr. Faxx is being developed. Because of its reprogramming, RoboCop is in fact unable to do its job; thus he lets a violent gang of thieves escape while he pursues small offenses with undue severity. His maintenance technicians at the police station feel unable to restore his original directives, but mention that a severe electric shock could erase his memory. Based on this information, RoboCop leaves the area and energizes a transformer. In effect, the memory will be cleared and RoboCop can resume service.

He does so immediately and, together with his colleagues who have ended the strike, attacks Cain's gang in their new hiding place, a brewery. The surviving gangsters flee in two armored money transporters. Robocop can catch Cain, who is driving one van, after a wild hunt through the streets of Detroit; Cain is seriously injured and admitted to hospital. Hob and Angie, Cain's friend, escape on the second van. Dr. Faxx became aware of Cain because she is of the opinion that only a mad criminal has the motivation to continue his life in a cyborg body. His dependence on the Nuke is supposed to ensure his devotion. In the hospital, Dr. Faxx disables the machine for his life support and has Cain's brain implanted in RoboCop 2.

Meanwhile, Hob asserts himself as the new leader of the drug gang against Angie and plans a deal with Detroit's Mayor Kuzak, whom he offers to use the contents of the money truck to pay for the city's debts to OCP in return for the police to leave him alone . The repayment of the debts is not the intention of OCP, as it will deprive them of the possibility of privatizing the city of Detroit and building Delta City in its place . Therefore the first assignment to RoboCop 2 is: Liquidation of the mayor and his new donors. He bursts into the middle of Hob's negotiations with the mayor and kills almost everyone, including Angie. Kuzak is lucky to escape through a sewer pipe. The dying Hob can inform RoboCop, who arrives a little later, that the massacre was carried out by a new type of cyborg from OCP.

That same evening, OCP announced the start of construction on Delta City, a new, clean and supposedly drug-free city. RoboCop 2 will also be presented to the public. But Cain's drug addiction, the supposed guarantee of his compliance to OCP, makes him lose control at the sight of a Nuke ampoule presented . Robocop 2 tries to get the vial and starts a carnage in the hall. RoboCop also appears at the premiere and faces the cyborg . In a bitter duel, the two of them take to the street, where a large police force has already marched up. RoboCop 2's superior firepower and armor cannot be affected by an armored car pushing it against a wall. But Robocop and Lewis have a plan. While Lewis delivers the Nuke ampoule to Robocop 2 , Robocop uses Cain's drug intoxication to jump onto Robocop 2 from behind. He manages to break open his armor, pull out Cain's brain and destroy it.

Reviews

"A few self-deprecating breaks and the trickery brilliance cannot outweigh the tendency to glorify violence."

- Lexicon of international film

"Like Paul Verhoeven's" RoboCop "(1987), the humorous successor to Irvin Kershner (" The Empire Strikes Back ") is characterized by a crazy mix of violence and humor."

- Cinema

"RoboCop 2 is a bizarre mixture of violence and humor. (RoboCop 2 is a bizarre mix of violence and humor.) "

- Roger Ebert

music

The film music was composed by Leonard Rosenman . It was released in 1990 with a running time of 30 minutes on a CD by Varèse Sarabande and in 2019 by the same label in its club program. Film Music Journal writes about this: " Irvin Kershner , who had been friends with the composer for a long time, was the one who campaigned personally for Rosenman, who was born in 1924. He did this by writing his own title theme, appropriately with soprano voices (which in The woodwinds were recorded sitting) intonating the word Robocop , equipped, each sounding according to Rosenman's 6-note fanfare ("Overture: Robocop 2"), less as a heroic addition, but rather communicating the disruption of the character played by Peter Weller . What Rosenman from Poledouris , the anvil are beats. This results in a musical recognition value , if not melodic, at least very clever . "

Awards

The film was nominated for the Saturn Award 1991 in three categories. These were Best Performance by a Young Actor (Gabriel Damon), Best Science Fiction Film, and Best Special Effects . But he could not win any of the awards.

background

  • The Nuke chemist is the screenwriter and comic book artist Frank Miller.
  • On one of the pictures in the criminal record that Dr. Faxx goes through director Irvin Kershner.
  • The scene in which RoboCop shoots a smoker's cigarette and says "thank you for not smoking" has been licensed as a non-smoking commercial by many American cinemas.
  • The film has no opening credits and no title display, but a title display was made for the German television exploitation.
  • The film was indexed until January 2014, but was then removed from the index. A re-examination of the FSK resulted in "No youth release" for the unabridged version.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for RoboCop 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 64 468 V).
  2. ^ RoboCop 2. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ RoboCop 2 on cinema.de
  4. ^ Review by Roger Ebert on rogerebert.suntimes.com
  5. ↑ Philippe Blumenthal: Robocop film music review April 2, 5, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 .