re: Robocop 2

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Between the 12 year old drug dealer, the cartoonish brain and eyes in the jar, robot suicides, Robo getting sliced to pieces then coming back with 50,000 new directives, Robo electrocuting himself, a whole baseball teams worth of child criminals, and on and on it is a hodgepodge of insanity.

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Yes, it was too dark. The 12-year old who became the gang leader storyline was ridiculous. I get the tone of the film, because they were showing just how bad society could get. The first film alone had a lot of it with the corporate back stabbing and gang/drug angle. But, the bad child angle in Robocop 2 was messed up. The finale was pretty good though. It was also directed by Irvin Kershner.