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Police officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is brutally shot to death by thugs in a not-to-distant future Detroit, where a company's going to provide the police force with robots for cops. The prototype that's brought out screws up, so they decide to make Murphy into the title character. He's now Robocop, a cop that kicks ass and takes names, but has memories of his demise still lodged into his head. He decides to go out for revenge, as the company tries to kill him so they can put their robot on the market.
As I said before, the action's just mediocre. There's some shooting and everything, but done generically. The best part isn't the action, thankfully. It's when there's stuff happening outside the action with Robocop. When he goes out to stop crime. He stops a rape by shooting a man in the genitals, which basically goes THROUGH the woman's dress. No human could do that, only the epitome of cool could: Robocop. And Weller does a great job as the stone-faced cop, with just the little bit of emotion. Nancy Allen is the token hard-assed female on the force, who acts like she's in an 80's movie, so I guess that's ok. The film as a whole is never boring-Paul Verhoeven keeps everything rolling for it's short-but-sweet runtime, and I liked all of the pre-Starship Troopers attacks on America-"Get them before they get you!" I also liked what Verhoeven did with portraying Robocop as a modern day Jesus-it worked effectively. So the movie works for the most part-any time where Robocop is on the screen. If you can get past the generic feel of the rest of the movie, and just watch for Robocop, you'll love it.
Rated R for strong violence and language.
Review Date: September 8, 2004