The 2019 debut feature film from Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia takes a brutal, gore-soaked bite out of capitalist hierarchy.
We were promised the future. What we got was the dystopia of “Blade Runner” but no flying cars or space colonies. What a shitty deal.
This movie sure has a society, and Joker lives in it.
Robocop 2 is a bad sequel to a great movie, a confusing and contradictory followup to a confident masterpiece. The followup wants to replicate the dry, ironic wit of Robocop but doesn’t really understand what made the first movie great. Robocop 2 also has the central problem of replicating the
1987’s Robocop is a masterpiece of splatter capitalism, the merging of body horror and capital’s brutal effects.