Word: robocop
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...this end, there is plenty of high-tech destruction and gratuitous violence. But it is violence of a slightly different sort; darkly comical, Robocop II's well engineered mayhem bears more of a resemblence to the black satire of death orchestrated by the Joker in Batman than to the senseless slaughter in Total Recall or the recent series of Rambo movies...
Even on this level, Robocop II's resemblence to a run-of-the-mill technoblitz show remains on the surface, a sugar coating on the film's more substantial social commentary...
...Robocop II is about the individual, in this case Alex Murphy, and his battle with the forces of society which threaten to destroy his already fragile humanity. The film parodies--rather darkly--how both advances in technology and the rise of huge corporations have their menacing sides...
Most poignant of all, however, is Robocop II's exaggerated portrayal of the desperate straits America's cities are rapidly approaching. The present spectres of crack, increasing urban violence and homelessness make Nuke and warlike futuristic Detroit very tangible images...
Euthanasia, the environment and the question of exactly what makes someone human are just some of the other issues Robocop II effectively tackles in the guise of a technoblitz tour-de-force...