Two years after the robot malfunction at Delos, the company has reopened with new safety protocols but visitors have been low. To help restore confidence in the park, the company has invited the press to write honest articles or TV news reports that Delos is certain will be favorable. Chuck Browning (Peter Fonda) and Tracy Ballard (Blythe Danner) travel together to the park. They have a history though are not currently a couple. Chuck had written a scathing article regarding Delos and is certain to be more skeptical than Tracy. Prior to the trip to Delos, Chuck had a meeting with a former employee but the man is near dead when he arrives. His last word is 'Delos.' Chuck is going to dig deep.
Though Medieval World and Roman World have been reopened, Westworld remains closed as it reportedly saw the first robot kill a human. Doctor Duffy reports that 50 guests and nearly 100 employees were killed during the malfunction. Two new worlds - Spa World and Future World - have been added to the options. Chuck and Tracy visit Future World which starts out with a rocket launch to a space station. There are a variety of high tech games and opportunities to ski on Mars or walk on the moon. And that mostly ends the park aspects.
Unlike the previous movie where the characters spent much of their time interacting in the historical setting while things slowly went wrong, this movie mostly abandons the theme parks in favor of crawling about the tunnel system beneath them. Eventually, they stumble upon Harry Croft (Stuart Margolin), one of the few remaining human employees and someone who was working during the robot malfunction. Harry knows his way around the tunnels and has access to every place. Well, except for this one area. Hmm.
As is painfully obvious by this point in the film, Delos is replacing high ranking or useful visitors with clones. The newly created clones are instructed to dispose of their original. Thus, we have Tracy vs. Tracy and Chuck vs. Chuck. But it's an even fight since the replacements aren't superpowered robots. Um, this doesn't seem like a good plan. Gee, since Delos had drugged them and done hours of scanning on the unconscious targets, why wouldn't you just do that again and send the clone? The mind-numbing stupidity of the plan immediately ruins the movie.
Yul Brynner returns in a dream sequence where he rescues Tracy from the red-clad med techs who scanned and probed her. That was a weird and pointless tangent.
Mediocre.
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