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An wicked firm called Omni Consumer Products is awarded a contract to privatize Detroit's police force. They employ Alex Murphy's (Peter Weller) corpse to support an untested RoboCop prototype to test their crime-eradicating cyborgs. The company's evil ambitions set RoboCop against his masters.

In Robocop, a slain police officer is converted into the ultimate crime-fighting machine by Paul Verhoeven, and it's hard for me to put aside my fanboy instincts. There is a lot of action in Robocop, as well as some of the best sequences and a fantastic story.

Detroit has turned into a criminal's paradise in the not-too-distant future. The police department, which was "purchased" by the Omni Corporation when the city went bankrupt, attempts to maintain order. Thugs, robbers, murders, and rapists now rule the streets.

But that is not the end of Officer Murphy!

A top-secret experiment will be done with Murphy's body after he dies. If it goes well, a new kind of cop with bulletproof armor and state-of-the-art weaponry will be born, and it will be called a "cyborg." It was led by Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), who got Omni's top executive, Dick Smith (Ronny Cox), to give him money for his project. The "Robocop Program" is a huge hit, and soon, Robocop is patrolling the streets, taking the fight to lawbreakers.

Robocop is a great mix of sci-fi and action, and there are a lot of great scenes in it. The first fight between Murphy and Boddicker's gang is bloody as hell, and Verhoeven shows us every bloody detail of it (in the uncut version, anyway). Another very graphic scene takes place in the Omni Corporation's board room, where Dick Jones is demonstrating his favorite project, the ED-209, a huge robot with a lot of weapons. There are still some problems with the ED-209, which become clear when it blows away Kinney (Kevin Page), the young businessman who agreed to be a test subject.

There are still thrills to be had when Robocop goes out on the streets, but the best parts are when he takes on Boddicker and his gang. On his first night out, Robocop comes across a robbery in progress. Emil, one of Boddicker's men, is threatening a gas station attendant with an automatic weapon. Robocop, after he recognizes Emil as one of Murphy's killers, thinks back to his own past. This fight is also a good action scene.

Despite the excitement, there's more to Robocop than gunfights. In one of the film's most spectacular scenes, we watch the “creation” of Robocop (those moments when, early in the transformation process, he regains consciousness). From a table in the Omni labs, we see snatches of what happens; Robocop wakes up as the technicians and medical professionals celebrate the New Year.

As if this wasn't enough, Robocop even talks about what it means to be human, and how your body can be changed but your memories can't be. In his film, Verhoeven talks about things like corporate greed, rampant crime, and personal identity (which comes up when Robocop / Murphy starts remembering his life before the suit). This shows that Verhoeven understands the human condition.

Then enjoy the mayhem!

A robot goes berserk at the beginning of "RoboCop" It's set up to warn a criminal to put down his weapon and then shoot him if he doesn't. The robot, an unsightly and awkward gadget, is brought into a board meeting of the firm hoping to earn millions by selling it. The machine's gun will be pulled by a junior executive. The alert has been sent out. The executive's weapon is dropped. The robot issues another warning, counts to five, and then shoots the man.

These people are having a lot of fun. Before the MPAA Code and Ratings Administration asked for it to be cut down, I don't know if it was even more fun. If you think about Chaplin's "Modern Times" you will see that the assembly line in the movie is very funny. This is because there is something funny about logic being used in a situation where it doesn't make sense.

The sequence surprised us in a movie that looked to be turning into a serious thriller. One of the movie's finest aspects is that we're not sure where it's heading.

A young scientist proposes integrating robots and human intelligence to create a better policeman. And he gets his opportunity when a brave officer (Peter Weller) is slain. Not nearly killed The first "robocop" is built around that human core, a half-man, half-machine that functions with faultless logic save for the shards of human spontaneity and intuition that may be hiding somewhere in its memory.

I had a good laugh at that. There was no one else. Robotic audio was used because the recorded message could have been made with a normal human voice. The goal of the robotic audio was to make the commands seem like they came from an authority that could not be appealed to, which is why it was used. In "RoboCop," Verhoeven and Weller get a lot of mileage out of the conflict between the voice that is so sure and the person who is becoming more and more unsure.

There were a lot of people at the box office

RoboCop never reclaimed the top place, but stayed in the top 10 for a total of six weeks. The picture earned $53.4 million at the conclusion of its theatrical run, making it a minor success. After Crocodile Dundee ($53.6 million), La Bamba ($54.2 million), a comedy picture, and Dragnet ($57.4 million), it was the fourteenth highest-grossing film of the year. Outside of North America, no figures for the film's performance are known.

Critical Response

RoboCop premiered to good reviews. Moviegoers awarded the picture an average letter grade of "A–" in CinemaScore surveys.

A lot of publications thought Verhoeven's direction was smart and darkly funny, with sharp social satire that, the Washington Post said, would have been just a simple action movie if it had been directed by a different person. Others, such as Dave Kehr and the Chicago Reader, found the picture was over-directed with Verhoeven's European filmmaking style missing rhythm, intensity, and pace. The Chicago Reader said that Verhoeven's usual skill at portraying the "sleazily psychological" through physicality didn't work well with RoboCop's "Aryan blandness" which the film is about. The Washington Post and Roger Ebert both said that Weller did a good job and that he was able to make people feel bad and show chivalry and vulnerability even though he was mostly hidden by a big costume. The Washington Post said that Weller had a kind of beauty and grace that made his death even more horrible. In contrast, Weller "hardly registered" behind the mask for the Chicago Reader. Variety highlighted Nancy Allen as providing the only human warmth in the film, and Kurtwood Smith as a well-cast "sicko sadist".

The film's most successful effort, according to Kehr and The Washington Post, was its satire of corporations and the interchangeable use of corporate executives and street-level criminals to depict their unchecked greed and callous disregard alongside witty criticisms of subjects such as game shows and military culture. Reaction to the film has been positive, with the Los Angeles Times saying that the standard cliché vengeance scenario is changed by making the protagonist a machine that continues falling to humanity, passion, and idealism, which some critics found refreshing. The Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer said RoboCop's triumph was gratifying because it provided a story about a virtuous guy battling back against corruption, evil, and the stealing of his humanity with morality and technology on his side. According to the Washington Post, "the film's" "With all our flesh-and-blood heroes failing us—from brokers to baseball players—we need a man of mettle, a real straight shooter who doesn't fool around with Phi Beta Kappas and never puts anything up his nose." RoboCop is what the world needs."

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