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Feb 1, 2021 · Like many of its contemporaries, the movie — about a cyborg cop struggling to remember his identity as he takes down a network of nasty criminals — is a cautionary tale of the excesses...
Morton has Murphy's corpse converted into RoboCop, a heavily armored cyborg with no memory of his former life. RoboCop is programmed with three prime directives: serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and uphold the law. A fourth prime directive, Directive 4, is classified.
Jul 11, 2022 · RoboCop isn't great at being a cyborg (those pesky human memories) and even worse at being a police officer.
- Stephen Wilds
Feb 16, 2023 · Now he is just a soul trapped in the RoboCop chassis. If the soul is the essence of our humanity, does that make Murphy still human, even though he is now mostly a cyborg?
- Peter Weller’s Endearing Lead Performance
- Using A B-Movie Premise to Convey Social Commentary
- The Explosive Action
- Paul Verhoeven’s Vision of A Dystopian Detroit
- The tongue-in-cheek Humor
- Nancy Allen’s Likable Turn as Anne Lewis
- The Fast Pacing
- Rob Bottin’S Gruesome Makeup Effects
- The Over-The-Top Violence
- The Satirical Bite
RoboCopmight play like a shallow, ultraviolent B-movie if it wasn’t anchored by Peter Weller’s impeccable performance in the title role as a good-natured cop who’s killed in the line of duty and resurrected as a police-state cyborg. Weller nails the duality of this complicated antihero. He initially plays Murphy as a likable everyman, then plays Ro...
The concept of a robotic cop becoming judge, jury, and executioner is a quintessential B-movie premise. If it was just an action movie, audiences would’ve been satisfied. But Paul Verhoeven went the extra mile and used that B-movie premise to convey sharp social commentary. From Dawn of the Dead to Godzilla to Verhoeven’s own Starship Troopers, gen...
When RoboCop catches a bad guy, he doesn’t just tackle them and handcuff them. Instead, he kills them in the most extravagant, theatrical ways possible, creating some of the most breathtaking action scenes ever put on film. For example, after thwarting a gas station robbery, RoboCop takes out the perp by blowing up the entire gas station in a burst...
Along with Beverly Hills Cop, True Romance (and, of course, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit), RoboCopis one of the definitive Detroit movies. Paul Verhoeven depicts a near-future Detroit as a crime-ridden cesspool where nobody feels safe and the divide between the haves and the have-nots keeps getting wider. RELATED: 5 Reasons The Original RoboCop Is Bes...
Like most of Paul Verhoeven’s movies, RoboCop has a great sense of humor. The delightfully offbeat, tongue-in-cheek humor brilliantly contrasts against the graphic violence. Some of the movie’s action scenes play like blood-soaked slapstick, and Kurtwood Smith really hams it up in the role of sadistic crime lord Clarence Boddicker.
Nancy Allen gives an extremely likable supporting turn in RoboCopas Anne Lewis, a tough-as-nails cop and fiercely loyal friend to Murphy. Lewis gives the movie a heart and a moral compass after Murphy’s humanity is programmed out of him. It’s also notable that, unlike most of the female characters in Hollywood blockbusters, Lewis isn’t sexualized. ...
The best action movies move at a rapid pace, jumping from action sequence to action sequence and racing through the plot points. In that spirit, RoboCopmoves along at a breakneck pace. Within the first couple of scenes, Murphy has been murdered by gangsters and turned into a cyborg, allowing Verhoeven to dive straight into the RoboCop action.
The exaggerated violence of RoboCopwouldn’t work as well without Rob Bottin’s gruesome makeup effects. Bottin’s special effects walk the fine line between visually stunning and stomach-churning. RELATED: 10 Movies Like RoboCop (That Came Before It) In particular, the makeup effects in Murphy’s murder stand out. The gang’s relentless gunfire blasts ...
The premise of RoboCopis a cautionary tale about giving the police too much power. The titular cyborg is an unstoppable killing machine who’s given free rein by the police department to brutally kill anybody he catches committing a crime. If a criminal is committing a relatively bloodless crime like robbing an ATM, RoboCop has the authority to blow...
All of the mind-blowing action in RoboCopis just gravy. The true substance of the movie is its satirical bite. Verhoeven uses the concept of a cybernetic police officer with absolute power to touch on a bunch of different topics: police corruption, corporate greed, the privatization of government — the list goes on. More broadly, RoboCopfeels like ...
Feb 17, 2014 · ROBOCOP could have been a great sci-fi movie for pre-teens. Its premise, after all, is fascinating: A police officer is transformed into a law-enforcing cyborg after being killed in the line of duty.
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Oct 3, 2022 · Despite rooting around in dystopian sludge (at times literally), Robocop is not a nihilistic movie or even a cynical one. Though its primary form is scathing satire, it is profoundly...
