An average movie

I think I saw it back then when I was a kid but after rewatching it yesterday, I'm not so sure. Anyway, I thought it was a decent sequel. Of course, since Paul Verhoeven was gone, it wasn't as good as the first installment but I thought they managed more or less to keep the tone right and the action scenes were not bad. The main issue here was that it was poorly written with too many under-developped storylines (a police strike, a lethal drug, Robocop struggling with his past, Robocop being reprogrammed, an evil Robocop 2 being built up,...). Furthermore, one of the druglord sidekick was a kid and there was no explanation whatsoever about what he was doing here exactly except for adding some schocking value to the whole thing. Later on, they chose to give Robocop 2 the brain of a psychopath. Why?!? Of course, to provide Robocop with a suitable enemy but, a part from that, it didn't make any sense at all. As a matter of fact, Paul Verhoeven almost did direct this sequel but he asked more time to get the script right and guess what? They didn't do it because they wanted to release the 2nd installment as soon as possible. Still, I thought it was a decent follow-up and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you enjoyed the 1st movie.

6/10