A positive review of “RoboCop 2”, now that’s a rare sight indeed. I like the first “RoboCop” because it features a combination of satisfying action scenes and plenty of self-aware humour. “RoboCop 2” is a bit less (well actually a lot less) subtle than its predecessor but it still retains the excitement and the laughs.

In this sequel, half-man, half-machine RoboCop (Peter Weller “RoboCop”, “Screamers”) is out to stop a new drug called ‘Nuke’ from circulating in the city of Detroit so he must of course get to the source and defeat a vicious killer and leader of a new cult, named Cain (Tom Noonan “Last Action Hero”). After RoboCop is badly damaged, his creators at OCP decide it’s time for a new law-enforcement machine and just guess who their human candidate is.

RoboCop is an entertaining character because he’s voiced excellently by Peter Weller and ‘talks like he’s a classic swashbuckling hero defending a lady’s honour’ (a quote from my review of the original “RoboCop”). The villains aren’t too memorable and while that’s a shame, it isn’t a huge loss. I do really miss ED-209 from the first movie and the new ‘RoboCop 2’ as he’s called, raises the stakes but not the laughs.

“RoboCop 2” tries to feature the same style of consumerism satire seen in the first film but it doesn’t manage to do quite as well but aside from that, you get pretty much more of the same. Many people dismiss this film and I don’t really understand why; maybe it’s too similar to the first. I think all people really need to know is that this film features decent action scenes, some good moments of humour, spectacular effects and a very impressive performance from Peter Weller as RoboCop and to me, that’s all I wanted from a sequel to “RoboCop”.