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Robocop

Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
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Overview

Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive (Miguel Ferrer) at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel limbs and rewires his brain with computer chips so he will have no will of his own. Murphy's former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry blocks whatever dim memories remain. Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop, causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the top of OCP. This second English-language film by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is unremittingly brutal, darkly comic, and filled with bits of clever satire and pathos. A special highlight is the hilariously incompetent ED-209, RoboCop's main rival in the department of automated law enforcement. Considered by many critics to be one of the best films of its genre, ROBOCOP was followed by several sequels and a 1994 TV series.

Awards:
1987 - Academy Awards - Best Sound Effects Editing - Winner

Main Cast & Crew:
Paul Verhoeven - Director
Peter Weller
Nancy Allen
Ronny Cox
Daniel O'Herlihy
Kurtwood Smith
Dan O'Herlihy
Executive
Fred Hice
John S. Davies
Kevin Page

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray (Standard Edition)
  • Run Time: 103
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 760137315988
  • Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Release Date: February 2020

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP is an ultraviolent but extremely clever sci-fi action film set in a burnt-out, crime-infested Detroit of the future. When a cop is almost killed in the line of duty, the corrupt corporation that runs the police department decides to use his near-dead body as the basis for a specially constructed cyborg--the first in what they intend to be a line of highly efficient, crime-fighting machines. But the corporate execs didn't take into account the vestiges of human nature still lurking beneath all that state-of-the-art hardware. It turns out RoboCop has a mind of his own and sets out to take bloody revenge on the vicious gang members who tried to kill him.

Reviews:
"...Chilling, at times hilarious..." - Recommended - 05/01/1995 Premiere, p.136


"...ROBOCOP is a shrewdly enjoyable movie..." - 12/01/1987 Sight and Sound, p.66-7


"...Gut-level humor and technical wizardry....Robocop himself is a fascinating character..." - 07/01/1987 Variety


"...This movie has a motor humming inside. It's been assembled with ferocious, gleeful expertise, crammed with humor, cynicism and jolts of energy..." - 07/17/1987 Los Angeles Times, p.C1


"This sicko futuristic satire of corporate Detroit is the movie that got director Paul Verhoeven out of Holland and ultimately into even beefier Hollywood megahits like TOTAL RECALL and BASIC INSTINCT..." - 06/02/1995 USA Today, p.3D


"Paul Verhoeven's finest film isn't quite science-fact, but its corporation-driven, fat-cat future is our reality." - 04/01/2004 Total Film, p.137


"Weller is excellent, giving his metal man a very human heart....ROBOCOP turned out to be an extremely smart film." -- Grade: A - 08/24/2007 Entertainment Weekly, p.119


3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t remains a fearlessly over the top, endlessly enjoyable action flick." - 11/23/2007 Ultimate DVD, p.107


"[V]iolent, lurid, thoughtful, satirical and mercilessly suspenseful." - 08/03/2012 Wall Street Journal

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