Norton's labs are eerie in their soft efficiency. The whispers, whirs and hums of the mechanisms in Dr. When Mattox arranges a 'grudge match' test for RoboCop against dozens of EM-208 units, the camera races through the giant warehouse in which the robots are taking their positions to attack, and the sound of each one cocking its weapons zips through the surrounds. In the first Novak Element broadcast, the film gracefully transitions from the viewing screen in Novak's studio to the streets of Tehran where the reporters are on the ground as they step into the street, the humming and clanking of the robot army fills the surround array and immediately puts the viewer into the scene. Still, some of the most impressive sonic moments in RoboCop are subtler. Gears turn, metal screeches and chunks of metal crash to the ground.

In a game of one-upsmanship with the first film, this RoboCop fights not just one ED-209 unit, but several, all of which fire their cannons repeatedly. A massive shootout with kingpin Antoine Vallon and his gang involves heavy artillery and rapid fire. When the new sheriff in town first takes to the streets, director Padilha doesn't waste time with petty crime his RoboCop attacks a drug lab single-handedly, where machine gun fire and hand grenades are all in a day's work. RoboCop's 5.1 sound mix, presented on Blu-ray in lossless DTS-HD MA, is a thunderously satisfying affair with plenty of gunfire and several major battle scenes to rattle unsecured items off the shelves of any viewer with a powerful sound system. You're in luck, I recently was looking a bunch of these up for a project.

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