RoboCop finally gets the remake treatment which a lot of fans of the original are super pissed about. The real die hard fans are most likely going to avoid this remake, but you got to review these movies as if they are their own thing. With that, we get a slightly modified story about Murphy, who gets badly injured outside his house when a car bomb goes off. Murphy is then transformed into the half man, half robot cop, but they changed that aspect slightly as well. Instead of him not aware of his prior existence as a human being, he is fully aware of what happened. He then hits the streets of Detroit to do some cleaning, and Omnicorp is hoping putting a man in a machine will help repeal the bill against robot drones in America.
I actually enjoyed RoboCop, simply because I thought it was a decent sci-fi action flick. The action was done well, and the visuals worked most of the time. The actors all played their parts with ease, especially Gary Oldman as the doctor/engineer guy, which worked for me because you can never get enough Gary Oldman. Sam Jackson of course “Sam Jacksons” his role as this host of a political show striving to get people to accept a robot police force. Michael Keaton is another actor that is hard to hate on film, and he plays his part as Omnicorp’s CEO very well.
Where the movie didn’t work for me was villain, and too much emotion. There really isn’t a villain in this film at all, and that’s what the original had with Kurtwood Smith. When I talk about emotion, the whole thing about him knowing who he is was difficult to accept, because they really wanted to dive into the emotion all this had with Murphy and his family. After awhile though, I accepted it, and actually did kind of dig where they went with it.
So I recommend the RoboCop remake to anyone who likes scfi flicks. I know people will constantly compare it to the original, which you really shouldn’t do if you want to have a pleasurable experience with this cinematic adventure. Check out my video review below, to hear me ramble on. Let me know if you saw it, and what you thought about it.