The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

In the not too distant future, a Detroit police officer is gunned down by a gang of killers and is resurrected as a cyborg police officer. He later regains his humanity and craves vengeance for the gang that killed him. Robocop is sci-fi satire at its finest. It uses the action genre as a guise for deep social commentary on institutional power, media manipulation and consumerism. One of the most memorable lines from the film is 'I'll buy that for a dollar!' said by a character from a sitcom which satirises consumerist excess. We aren't given much context about the show except that everyone finds it utterly hilarious. Even the yuppy like executives, that the show openly makes fun of, embrace this cultural phenomena by referencing the line. This pretty much sums up Robocop's message in a nutshell. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier. Verhoeven is known for putting over exaggerated violence, sex, swearing and drugs throughout his films and Robocop is no exception. Most of the violence, except Alex Murphy's execution, is overly comical and this was done for a purpose. We laugh at the corporate climate, especially when an executive is blown to bits by a droid and is only labelled as 'a glitch'. The action in the movie is overly stylised to showcase the silly media driven and consumerist world. Even though Robocop is humorous this is not to say the film hasn't got heavy moments of drama and tragedy. Alex Murphy is like a cog in the machine, which is similarly explored in another Verhoeven film, 'Starship Troopers'. We see him trying to imitate a popular tv show 'TJ Laser' which encourages him to join the police force. Although this results in his death and you end up feeling sorry for the character despite his naivety. However, Alex Murphy ends up regaining his humanity which brings some hope in an otherwise pessimistic view of the future.Robocop is fantastic and is one of the smartest eighties sci-fi action films.

What was remarkable about this film, is that it was one of the very last times we had ever seen Ray Harryhausen style stop motion animation used in a feature film. The odd look was because they had to use Rear Projection. This film reflects all of the glory of 70's and 80's practical special effects. Everything we see here is on camera. The Computer displays were all done on Amiga.The ED-209 appears to utilize the top half of a Sennheiser Microphone as a "Radiator Grill", I'd recognize the shape anywhere. Phil Tippet's animation is ingenious, giving unwarranted life to the 209's.What makes this film are the small details, "I'll buy that for a Dollar" (Originally from "The Marching Morons" by CM Kornbluth, which was later the basis for "Idiocracy"), the little News clips, the phoney ads what are not too far fetched. These little bits were used well in the 22-episode TV RoboCop TV show from 1994.And Rob Bottin's brilliant design of the RoboCop "suit". As far as the actors, I didn't know who Peter Weller was. But he was perfect for the role. There is a "good" buisinessman, Miguel Ferrer, contrasted with the Bad Guy Ronny Cox, who Verhoeven also used in Total Recall. Kurtwood Smith and Ray Wise, who always show up in Star Trek things, were over the top crooks. The Kid who drives the van, played by Paul McCrane, was the guy in the X-Files that could walk away after a head-ectomy. In this film, the Old Man of Omni Consumer Products, played by Dan O'Herlihy is a lot more like the kindly old man who owns a company, this changes in the under rated Robocop 2, in which Irvin Kirschner does a good job of imitating Verhoeven's directorial style.Overall, this one film served as a Template that was used in 2 sequels, 2 TV Shows, and one TV Mini Series of various quality. It's great to revisit these, it shows a wholly different way of doing things than what is used today. Also, anachronisms. Many of the things we see in these films, even though they are depicting the future, don't really exist anymore. Cameras that use Film. Computers that use Disks, and even today, Optical disks are not used much, it's all flash drives and SDcards. Telephones. Even Pay Phones, when was the last time you saw a Pay Phone on a street corner? And cars: The huge 6000 SUX, an over the top parody of so many huge Ford cars in the 80's. And we don't even see many of those cars anymore, everything is an SUV now. In some ways, the world was a much simpler place, even in the movies from that time.

Alex Murphy is a police officer who is murdered by a gang of thugs, only to be brought back to life as a cyborg named Robocop. But his resurrection comes at a price: Alex Murphy is declared dead, his wife is legally a widow, his son is without a father, and he can no longer remember his family. But that's what effectively adds legitimate drama to this 1987 science fiction/action movie. A product of Omni Consumer Products (OCP, for short), Robocop patrols the streets and fights crime. He eventually comes across the thugs who changed him forever, leading to an inevitable showdown. But he goes through other situations before the showdown, such as taking on a robotic machine known as ED-209. Robocop is a classic - and I would call it a Robo-classic.

The American baptism of Verhoeven is solved with an atypical and violent Sci-Fi film, in which subtle secrets are hidden that can be applied to both political and private organisms. The desire to put into the hands of the machines the security and comfort of citizen security was not a new idea, but the Dutch director knew to give a much more forceful turn in its development, in which the irony is part of a more visceral argument That intellectual. Thus Robocop begins in a future in which violence has reached such a degree that cities choose to delegate private security to citizens, which does not solve the problems of corruption but rather moves them to another area. The idea of ​​the perfect policeman comes from the fusion of what is left of a supposedly murdered policeman with mechanical devices that are supposed to make him invulnerable to criminal attacks. And crime is one of the expositions that best summarizes the film, since crime is directly linked to the corruption of those who are supposed to eradicate it. But it is not all Robocop-Frankenstein, although the director pursues a goal that goes a step beyond the merely commercial, does not turn the film into a trivial moralistic message, but it is a film in which his possible messages do not Interfere with the reality of a science fiction film with great doses of action. Thus, an atypical film was characterized by the insertion of advertising criticizing consumerism and the cold reaction of people to important problems such as pollution, health or ecology, deceitful corporative traps that far from seeking the solution to the social problems benefits from them.We see how the promoter of the first robot uses repressive and uncommunicative methods in the program installed in the machine, which in a first trial ends with the death of an executive whom they treat as if a setback was treated without showing the slightest feeling For the life of the unfortunate director, who the rest of the people urgently request an ambulance, something totally ridiculous after having received a whole countless arsenal of bullets. The creator of Robocop also does not escape the critic Verhoeven style, is a kind of Dr. Frankenstein who does not hesitate to treat a fallen policeman as a product owned by a company willing to experiment with the limits of the human mind, selfish and selfish, Its sole aim is equally the lust for power. "Robocop" is a generous film that hides pleasing surprises, which neither adorns violence nor treats it delicately, but shows the wild and selfish side of the times.