This is a dark comic story that follows up the original sci-fi satire movie.
Spoiler warning
There is slightly less blood-letting in this one that the earlier film, though it still contains some very graphic scenes - including a live mutilation and a kid getting killed.
I preferred the satirical humor of this movie to the earlier one, especially the news pieces and the dig at bland beurocratic "political correctness". I noticed a slight parallel in the story to Dicken's "Oliver Twist" with Tom Noonan's character as a futuristic Fagan, and Gabe Damon as an Artful Dodger type. I enjoyed the way one of the lead robots of the story is given some personality, twitching its grabbers in anticipation of a treat.
My personal favorite scene is a news report on the meltdown of a nuclear power plant in the Amazonian rainforest. The newsreader announces that "Greenpeace is complaining that this is one of the worst natural disasters of our time". Then Leeza Gibbons responds: "Yeah, but don't they always".
Obviously not for all tastes, but this is rather witty.
Spoiler warning
There is slightly less blood-letting in this one that the earlier film, though it still contains some very graphic scenes - including a live mutilation and a kid getting killed.
I preferred the satirical humor of this movie to the earlier one, especially the news pieces and the dig at bland beurocratic "political correctness". I noticed a slight parallel in the story to Dicken's "Oliver Twist" with Tom Noonan's character as a futuristic Fagan, and Gabe Damon as an Artful Dodger type. I enjoyed the way one of the lead robots of the story is given some personality, twitching its grabbers in anticipation of a treat.
My personal favorite scene is a news report on the meltdown of a nuclear power plant in the Amazonian rainforest. The newsreader announces that "Greenpeace is complaining that this is one of the worst natural disasters of our time". Then Leeza Gibbons responds: "Yeah, but don't they always".
Obviously not for all tastes, but this is rather witty.