As if life in Detroit wasn’t bad enough, there’s a new, highly addictive drug called Nuke that is sweeping the city and it’s up to Robocop (Peter Weller) to clean things up. It doesn’t have the edge that made the original Robocop so much fun, but director Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) does a decent enough job of filling the screen with so much action that you never really have time to stop and worry about the plot. Weller seems to be having a blast playing the cyborg policeman, and Tom Noonan (Manhunter) chews the scenery with gusto as the drug kingpin, Cain. The special effects are a bit dated, especially the computer imagery used for Cain’s face when he is transformed into a machine, but it somehow adds to the camp quality of the film (a quality they probably didn’t have in mind when they made the movie).
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