<P> RoboCop 2 debuted as the second - highest - grossing film at the box office in its opening weekend . It went on to gross $45.7 million at the US box office and additional $22,505,000 from video rentals . </P> <P> It received mixed reviews from critics . While the special effects and action sequences are widely praised, a common complaint was that the film did not focus enough on RoboCop and his partner Lewis and that the film's human story of the man trapped inside the machine was ultimately lost within a sea of violence . </P> <P> In his Chicago Sun Times review, Roger Ebert wrote, "Cain's sidekicks include a violent, foul - mouthed young boy named Hob, who looks to be about 12 years old but kills people without remorse, swears like Eddie Murphy, and eventually takes over the drug business...The movie's screenplay is a confusion of half - baked and unfinished ideas...the use of that killer child is beneath contempt ." </P> <P> Additionally, the film "reset" RoboCop's character by turning him back into the monotone - voiced peacekeeper seen early in the first film, despite his reclaiming his human identity and personality by the end of that film . Many were also critical of the child villain Hob; David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews stated, "That the film asks us to swallow a moment late in the story that features Robo taking pity on an injured Hob is heavy - handed and ridiculous (we should probably be thankful the screenwriters didn't have RoboCop say something like,' Look at what these vile drugs have done to this innocent boy')." </P>

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