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Release Date: 29 September, 1998 Retail Price: $39.95 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (14 total) |
Robocop - Criterion Collection Reviews
Blueprint for action movies
This is one of my all time favourites! Paul Verhoeven is at his best here! This movie could have easily have turned out into a smooth Hollywood production, but Verhoeven managed to squeeze in a lot of his dark sense of humor somehow. This is adding a real extra dimension to the movie. The movie is situated in a possible future Detroit where the police is privately owned (!) by a company called OCP. OCP now has a plan to call a halt to crime: the Robocop project. All they now need is a "volunteer".
Peter Weller was brilliantly cast as Robocop as he basically talks like a robot by nature already. However Curtwood Smith delivers the best performance here. His role of psychotic gangleader Clarence Boddicker really rocks! Go and watch this
as this movie proves, that action movies do not necessarily
need to be stupid.(SARR)
What have we here, you a good cop hotshot? The answer is a resounding YES!
The 1987 classic Robocop is one of my all time favorite movies next to Scarface(1983), First Blood(1982), Goodfellas(1990), Braveheart(1995), The Exorcist(1973), Animal House(1978) and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie(1979).
When I first saw this movie in 1988 when I was 12, I was in for a time of my life.
As for the first Robocop(forget the sequels), Old Detroit has become a violent wonderland of criminal activity. New officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) and Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) are partners in a police force under siege from OCP, a company that wants to turn Old Detroit into a Metropolis kind of place. Whilst pursuing particularly bloodthirsty and disgusting but hilarious badguys, led by the reprehensible Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), whom had some of the funniest lines ever uttered by a villain in film, Murphy is captured, tortured, shot full of holes and killed. This scene is rather disturbing to watch for those who don't like violence.
After his death, Murphy becomes ROBOCOP. Murphy now has a mechanical body and becomes a walking weapon of mass destruction! He in initially goes out to clean up the streets and uphold the law. However, the scientists forgot that he was human and Robocop subsequently has a flashback to the night that his human form was killed and is later haunted by memories of his wife and son. The nightmare sequence sets up one of the best revenge films I've ever seen next to the first First Blood.
ROBOCOP then finds out the sinister secrets of OCP's #2 man (Ronny Cox, who was more famous for playing good cop Lt Bogelmil in the Eddie Murphy starred Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2 films) after assaulting Clarence and must do battle with the ED-209, an earlier robotic crimefighter design with heavy-duty guns and missiles.
The rest of the film is great too. I can't give more away, you have to watch.
Highly recommended!
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