Will I Watch RoboCop? [Breakdown]

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Evil company Omni Consumer Products gets a contract from the city government to privatize the police force in Detroit. Alex Murphy (Peter Weller), a police officer on the streets, is led into a fight with crime boss Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) by the company. They want to use Murphy's body to test their crime-fighting cyborgs. But when RoboCop finds out about the company's evil plans, he turns on them.

A new precinct for Officer Murphy (Peter Weller). Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) and his gang, arguably Detroit's most ruthless gangsters, are confronted by him and his new partner, Officer Lewis (Nancy Allen), while on duty. Murphy is trapped and shot by Boddicker's men in an abandoned warehouse.

Murphy's corpse is handed over to the Omni Corporation for use in a top-secret project that, if successful, would create a new kind of officer, a cyborg with impenetrable armor and advanced weapons. The “Robocop Program” is a smashing success, thanks to Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), who fought against Omni's senior executive Dick Smith (Ronny Cox) to acquire money for his initiative.

But is Robocop actually a machine or will his “human” history haunt him?

When Robocop strikes the streets, particularly against Boddicker and his pals, the action heats up. A gas station worker is threatened with an automatic rifle by one of Boddicker's men on Robocop's first night out. This showdown not only provides great action, but it also brings back memories for Robocop, who recognizes Emil as one of Murphy's murderers.

Robocop isn't only about shootouts and showdowns, though. We experience Robocop's "creation" from his point of view in one of the film's most spectacular scenes (those moments when, early in the transformation process, he regains consciousness). We observe much of what happens while strapped to a table in the Omni laboratories; at one point, Robocop awakens as the technicians and medical professionals celebrate the New Year.

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As if that weren't enough, Robocop explores what it means to be human by showing what happens when your body but not your memory are transformed. Verhoeven's film has a lot to say about the human condition by focusing on such issues as corporate greed, widespread crime, and one's own personal identity (which comes into play when Robocop / Murphy begins recalling his past before to the suit.)

Enjoy the devastation even if you don't agree with it!

This is a hilarious scenario. What I'm trying to say is that it was funnier before the MPAA Code and Ratings Administration asked for reductions. I think it's humorous because logic used to a context where it doesn't apply is amusing, as in Chaplin's "Modern Times"

Because the scene comes out of nowhere in a movie that looked like it was going to be a serious thriller, it throws us off. We don't know where "RoboCop" is going any more, and that's one of the movie's best things.

The film is set in a futuristic Detroit when gang terror reigns supreme. A slew of heinous officer murders has occurred. A large firm wants to sell robot police as a way to reduce crime, but the demonstration model is clearly inadequate.

A young scientist believes that by integrating robots and a human brain, he might create a better police officer. And when a hero officer (Peter Weller) is slain in the line of duty, he gets his opportunity. Not quite murdered, but close. Something remains, and the first "robocop" is built around that human core - a half-man, half-machine that functions with flawless logic save for the slivers of human spontaneity and intuition that may be hiding somewhere in its memory.

Nancy Allen is in the movie as a woman police officer who was Weller's partner before he was shot. In the beginning, she sees something familiar about the robocop, but she doesn't know what it was until later. There is her old partner, Weller, in the suit of steel. In fact, it should have been easy for her to figure it out, because Weller's original nose and mouth can be seen. Batman and Robin say that if you can't see the eyes of someone you know, you won't be able to recognize them. His inventor, on the other hand, seems to agree with that.

Oddly enough, his mechanical monotone voice conveys a lot of his individuality. In the movies, machines and robots have talked like this for years, and now life is starting to mimic them; I just boarded a shuttle train at the Atlanta airport, and the train began talking like robocop, in an uninflected monotone. ("Your-attention-please-the-doors-are-about-to-close.")

Most thrillers and special effects films are mass-produced. You can predict most developments and be accurate. "RoboCop" is a thriller unlike any other.

The Take

RoboCop never reclaimed the top place, but stayed in the top 10 for 6 weeks. The picture made over $53.4 million throughout its theatrical run, making it a minor hit. After Crocodile Dundee ($53.6 million), La Bamba ($54.2 million), comedy picture and Dragnet ($57.4 million), it was the year's fourteenth highest earning film. No figures regarding the film's performance outside North America are known.

Aliens (1986), The Terminator (1984), and the stories of Frankenstein (1931), Repo Man (1984), and Miami Vice were all influenced by the movie. As Blade Runner had done for Los Angeles, RoboCop built a unique, futuristic picture of Detroit. Multiple critics had a hard time figuring out what kind of movie this was. They said it had elements of action, science fiction, thrillers, Westerns, slapstick comedy, romance, snuff films, superhero comics, and camp, but not all of them.

Many reviewers talked about how violent the movie was. Ebert and the Los Angeles Times thought the violence was so much that it was intentionally funny. Ebert said that ED-209 killing an executive shattered people's expectations of a science-fiction movie that seemed to be serious and straightforward. The Los Angeles Times thought that the violent scenes were able to make people both sad and moved at the same time, which was a good thing. People who didn't like RoboCop, like Kehr and Walter Goodman, thought the movie's satire and critiques of corporate corruption were just an excuse to show violent images. They thought the violence had a "brooding, agonized quality ... as if Verhoeven were both appalled and fascinated" by it. The Christian Science Monitor said that critical praise for the "nasty" film was a sign that people were more concerned with "style over substance"

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