FAQ

At the beginning of the scene, the Old Man says "5 months. 90 million dollars. I want to see some results!". After reviewing the two failed prototypes for Robocop 2; The Old Man mutters "90 million...." in frustration. Meaning the two prototypes cost roughly $45 million each. Given these films take place in the future, inflation has to be taken in to account. Not to mention, they are making Cyborgs. Machines being bonded with human organs. This would be obscenely expensive even by today's standards if such technology existed. More likely to be in the hundreds of millions.

Always interested in looking to the future and making a buck, Omni Consumer Products (OPC) hopes to make more RoboCops like Murphy (Peter Weller), but each of their prototypes end up committing suicide. When psychologist Juliette Faxx (Belinda Bauer) comes up with a new idea—using psychopathic, drug-addicted, drug kingpin Cain (Tom Noonan) on grounds that he will welcome the power and the immortality—a new, larger and stronger cyborg, branded as "RoboCop Two", is born. Unfortunately, Cain's main focus is on getting more of a new street narcotic known as "Nuke".

RoboCop 2 is the second movie in the RoboCop series, preceded by RoboCop (1987) (1987) and followed by RoboCop 3 (1993) (1993) and two TV series: RoboCop (1994) (1994-1995] and RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001) (2000). The series is being rebooted with RoboCop (2014) (2014). The screenplay for RoboCop 2 was written by American comics writer/artist Frank Miller and screenwriter Walon Green, based on characters created by American screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner for Robocop. RoboCop 2 was subsequently novelized by American science fiction writer Ed Naha as well as turned into a nine-part comic book series called Frank Miller's RoboCop (2007) by Frank Miller and Juan Jose.

The entire formula isn't revealed in the movie. However, midway through the film, Cain checks with his chemist, Frank (a cameo by screenwriter and comic-book author Frank Miller), and tries out a new variation of Nuke called Blue Velvet. When he injects it, he waits for it to take effect and mentions two of its ingredients: benzadrine and scopolamine. It's probably reasonable to believe that both drugs were in the formula for the original Nuke.

The effects of Nuke appear to be somewhat euphoric, similar to heroin or opium.

The Old Man says near the end of the movie that the current events take place about one year after the events corresponding to the first movie. However, the actual year is never specified, which was also a story trick used by the producers and writers of the first movie. The temporal setting is ambiguous enough that the first movie may rationally be set anywhere from 1987 to 2087 or beyond, simply with the theme of being futuristic. However, the widespread adoptions of things in reality like digitization, smartphones, wireless access, flat displays and cloud computing, combined with the obsolescence of CRTs and mainframes, makes these movies feel more like they are set in the 1990s than in any part of the 21st century; and the same applies to just about any futuristic picture.

The UK VHS version was slightly censored, missing out approximately 32 seconds across 9 scenes. All cuts were waived for the DVD release.