ROBOCOP
STARRING:
Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith
1987, 103 Minutes, Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
 Description:
In the Detroit of the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is brutally
gunned down by drug-dealing thugs and left for dead, but he survives (half
of him, at least) and is integrated with state-of-the-art technology to
become a half-robotic cop of the future, designed to revolutionize law
enforcement. As RoboCop holds tight to his last remaining shred of humanity,
he relentlessly pursues the criminals who "killed" him. —
Amazon.com
Future
action movie in a run-down Detroit in which the police is run by a multinational
corporation very aptly called OmniCorp. They are looking for the future of law enforcement
which definitely isn't the local police force that's on strike.
One of the possibilities
is a giant robot stolen straight from the Imperial Walkers in Empire
Strikes Back. Alas, the machine malfunctions and blows away a poor exec during a
demonstration at a board meeting and the search is on again.
Enter Murphy (Peter Weller
- who got the role because he was the only actor willing to undergo the
strenuous make-up sessions). Murphy is blasted to bits by a bunch of the
vilest and nastiest caricature baddies we have seen in a movie for a long time and then
resurrected as the Robocop of the movie's title - sort of the comic book Judge Dredd crossed with The Terminator.
Plenty of
violence, gore and profanity directed in a wildly over-the-top style by
famed Dutch director Paul (Total Recall, Basic Instinct) Verhoeven. Some
of the violence is darkly humorous (especially the scene mentioned where
the hapless exec gets it) and the movie wouldn't have worked if not for
this. Manic, fast-paced and outrageous, Robocop is a classic
of its genre. Don't miss it - even if
you can't really stomach violence: it is a glorious comic book come to
life . . .
(Followed by two sequels,
namely the inferior Robocop 2 in 1990 and the
plain horrid Robocop 3 in 1990. Then there's
also the now defunct TV series and several TV movies.)
Voted
# 31
of the
Top 100 Sci-Fi
Movies
of all time
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