This was an ok film in the series for a multitude of reasons. Peter Weller was reluctant about coming back and was almost recast due to the new filmmakers wanting to take the Robocop character in a different direction but Weller ended up reprising his role which was a plus but unfortunately was the last time Weller played the police officer cyborg. Nancy Allen returned as officer Anne Lewis but there was a catch where she had to learn martial arts and spend 2 months of training at a Los Angeles Police Academy. Robocop’s new antagonist and drug lord Cain was supposed to be a typical drug dealer but the actor Tom Noonan that played him came up with the character being a former hippie and cult leader to match his persona. This also marks the final appearance of the Old Man/CEO of OCP. Now on to about the 2nd film.

It’s now been a year since Robocop was created, OCP has moved on from him with plans to recreate a 2nd Robocop to replace the Detroit Police Department who have been on strike and with plans of their own to have Detroit default on its debt and foreclose on all public property in order to rebuild a new Delta City. This act turns the CEO and all of OCP into the secondary antagonists and they easily make an enemy out of Detroit Mayor Marvin Kuzak. OCP also employs a psychologist Dr. Juliette Faxx who later creates the corrupted Robocop 2 project. The main antagonist is drug cartel Cain who supplies a designer drug called Nuke which plagues Detroit and plans to spread it elsewhere too. Among his accomplices are a young adolescent Hob, and corrupt Detroit police Officer Duffy.

Meanwhile Robocop begins experiencing flashbacks to his previous life as Alex Murphy and begins watching his wife and son outside their new home daily which causes his wife to bring litigation against OCP and complaints of harassment. Under the influence of his handlers to avoid negative publicity, Robocop tells her that Murphy is dead and that he doesn’t know her. After several encounters between Detroit’s beloved crime fighting cyborg and Cain’s gang, Cain is badly wounded and hospitalized. Faxx uses this opportunity to select Cain for the Robocop 2 project as she wanted to handpick death row inmates who seek power and immortality over police officers, despite warnings and objections from OCP’s scientists and tech team. She disconnects his life support and has his brain placed in a heavily armed body, similar to the ED-209 in the first movie, and gets reactivated. Unfortunately, Cain’s uncontrollable Nuke addiction causes him to ignore his programming and kill many civilians and officers. An epic fight between him and Robocop ensues that ends with Robocop ripping out Cain’s brain and smashing it on the ground, thus ending him for good. In order to avoid responsibility and accountability, The Old Man and Johnson decide to frame Faxx as the scapegoat for Cain’s violent rampage. The film ends with Robocop saying they must be patient as they’re only human when Lewis complains about OCP avoiding bad publicity again.