Robocop (DVD)

...All goes well at first. Robocop stops every sleazeball he encounters with deadly, piercing, and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street, and within Security Concepts itself, that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated... Prepare yourself for non-stop action and adventure in one of the most explosive sci-fi stories you'll ever witness: Robocop." There is no doubt that Robocop sits up there amongst ...
...police force. As time paces Robocop begins to suffer haunting memories and visions of his past existence. Robocop is programmed with 4 'Prime Directives' in mind - these are basic rules and orders to keep him doing good on the streets of Detroit. With a linear plot of Robocop seeking revenge and fighting bad guys we also see other complications particularly with the devious main bad boss in mind - Clarence Boddicker (brilliantly acted by the sly ...

tomwebbz 20.04.2007 (18.04.2007) · Read full review
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...arm yourself with the entire RoboCop trilogy on a spanking new DVD collection, which emphatically consigns the previous Criterion Edition to the scrapheap. It comes with all the extra features of the Criterion disc including a commentary track from controversial director Paul Verhoeven and writer Ed Neumier, the trailers, storyboards and a 'Shooting RoboCop' feature, plus you also get a brand new documentary on the making of Robo, a handful of deleted ...
...Back in 1987, RoboCop was the film that every teenage boy wanted to see, but was never allowed to because, we were told, it was for grown-ups. However, when a film has an invincible, metal guy stomping around, blowing away villainous scum with a really big gun, wild stallions wouldn't keep most bloodthirsty adolescents away and most of us somehow managed to see it anyway. But don't let the comic-book 'blast-the-bad-guys-kids' philosophy fool you, ...

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...genre. Along with The Terminator, Robocop is considered to be one of the most definitive movies of Cyberpunk, a subgenre of Science Fiction; an exploration of man with machine. Paul Verhoeven's film is brutally violent, funny, and thought provocative. A classic. It's a scary thought living in the future. "Old Detroit", as it's called, is all about Capitalism and the media, with little regard for the people's lives. The Police Department has become ...
...authorities didn't count on was Robocop regaining memories from his previous life. Going beyond the confines of his programming, he begins hunting down the gang of drug dealers responsible for his brutal execution, as well as bringing justice to the greedy company bosses that created him. And that is indeed one of the main points of the film: the proclaimed "Robocop" appears more humane than a majority of the big company bosses do; forcing us, the ...

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...80's you have to remember Robocop as one of the best action/sci-fi films to come from that era, it had great special effects for the time and quite a humourous script. The story starts by introducing us to Murphy (Peter Weller), an experienced police officer who has just been transfered to the dangerous and crime filled streets of Detroit. While patroling the streets of Detroit in his car with his new partner Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) they receive ...
...they need to work in, Robocop hits the streets, and is instantly shot to fame by a number of sucessful operations. After attending a robbery at a gas station though, Robocop's old memories start to resurface and with the help of Murphys old partner Lewis he goes about getting the criminals that ended his human life. Robocop is a well filmed and told story, often flash and bold but managing to keep the viewer attention all the way though. Like a lot ...

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...action flicks with cool characters. Robocop is that as well but has much more going on underneath the surface. Thanks to Director Paul Verhoven, this is a film that acts as part action, part comedy and 100% satire. Peter Weller stars as Alex Murphy, a cop who relocates to Detroit. The city is in the midst of crime, most of it stemming from arch criminal and all round bad guy Clarence Boddicker. One day Murphy and his new partner Lewis (Nancy Allen) ...
...name - Robocop. Robocop frankly takes no prisoners and soon crime in on the decrease. However soon submerged memeories of Murphy's past come to haunt Robocop and what was once a machine soo rediscovers some human elements. Needless to say the memory of being killed by Boddicker and his gang means it's bad news for Boddicker. Some may see Robocop as nothing more than mindless violence. In some ways it is but this is also a film that pokes fun at the ...

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...of the other partcipants in RoboCop are there to serve the needs of the story, with little interest given to their deeper personality traits or motives. They are stereotypical movie characters, and in this case it is not a problem. Only Nancy Allen - as Murphy's partner Lewis - is given the scope to invest anything approaching emotions or heart. Even then, it's not a lot to work with, but she gets more out of the role than the script deserved. Granted, ...
...part of Carrie just a decade previously, but on this form her talents and her underlying sexy appeal never deserted her. Rapturously received on its release, two subsequent installments would follow, neither of them - common knowledge will report - coming close to matching the splendour, thrills and narrative integrity. In truth, RoboCop's journey in this first film covers all the ground which could be of dramatic interest. It's all here, so the ...

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...had the double bill of Robocop 1 & 2 on video since before I was 10 and I seriously doubt there's a person on this planet that has watched either of the film's more than my good self. I pretty much know the script off by heart I've seen it that many times, for me it just doesn't get much better than this even know so imagine what it was like when I was an ickle boy, seeing all that gore and robot's was my equivilent to blue smartie's. I watched it ...
...years. Had a huge Robocop poster on my wall (wish I knew where it went!) Usually you don't like the same things when you get older, like when you find your old music collection and find Bryan Adams' 'Everything I Do' single on vinyl....Sad but true.... I thought I would share my childhood with you so you could get an idea of how gripping this film is for all ages, even watched it with my gran once, don't think it was her cup of tea though to say ...

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...the press love him and Robocop seems to be working well. However, the Murphy part of Robocop begins to remember his wife and son and keeps having flashbaacks of them and even visiting his former home. Robocop's creator Bob Morton is killed by Clarence Boddicker and through this Robocop discovers a link between Clarence's gang and Dick Jones, the creator of the corrupt, unused cop robot Ed 209. Due to directives instilled in his programming, Robocop ...
...shootout aimed at Robocop. Here Robocop eliminates the gang leaving Clarence til last. Robocop then returns to the robot company, OCP and destroys Ed 209 - once in the boardroom Robocop plays footage of Dick Jones confessing to his crimes. Dick takes his boss hostage but Robocop's directives still ensure that he can't kill Dick Jones. Realising this the boss fires Dick Jones allowing Robocop to shoot Jones ending him out of the 90th floor window ...

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Paul Verhoeven's Robocop had a certain distinction whilst I was at college, namely that it was probably the film most mentioned as reference by my film-studies class. This was mainly due in no small part to my own devotion to the film at the time. From the outside it seems to be pretty much a standard Science-Fiction actioneer, Cop gunned down in the line of duty, rebuilt to take bloody and gruesome revenge. The thing is though that the film quietly ...
...suface story, at it's heart Robocop is a story of humanity (Lost and found you might say). Murphy's realisation about who he is (was) and what he has become is deftly handled, and Peter Weller's portrayal of man and machine is at once both eerily cold and endearingly human. The special effects are good, and still hold up well today, especially the bipedal Enforcement Droid which OCP are also trying to foist on an unsuspecting world. One of the ...

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...man, part machine, all cop... RoboCop is a cult cinema classic of the eighties starring Peter Weller as RoboCop and is directed by the masterful Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man). The story is set in the near future of a very capitalist America. OCP (Omni Comsumer Products) is a multi billion dollar corporation that arguably owns the country. In the city city of Detroit, there is a major crime wave in progress. The situation ...
...All goes well at first. Robocop stops every low-life he encounters with deadly, piercing, and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street, and within OCP itself, that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated... This film is famous for its graphic violence and let me tell you, there is pleanty of it. I was fortunate enough to see the director's cut version a few months ago and it was fantastic. The film ...

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...on a bit now, but Robocop is still one of the best sc-fi films in a long while. Based in a pretty standard sort of near-future, corporate society setting, this film just smacks of 80s consumerism. Just look at the central premise of the film; huge corporation virtually owns the city of Detroit, and sees the employees as their posessions to be done with as they like. The film's plot is a pretty standard sort of revenge film, with a bit of a technological ...
...guns, too. The fact that Robocop is a virtually indestructible machine does not go unnoticed, as various people unload enough munitions to level a small country at him. The effect on his performance as a policemn of his various aspects, both technological and human, are also well covered, giving you a very good all-round impression of the character as a whole. But the best thing is the special effects. Robocop was probably one of the last real big-budget ...

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...lots of mechanical parts and Robocop is born. He is worth dozens of officers on his own and goes around solving crimes, he then goes on to take on the dealers of a massive drug and in doing so he discovers corruption and creates a huge bodycount. This film is very gory and full of violence and action. I really enjoyed it and think that anyone who likes violent movies will do too. ...

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Robocop is in some ways rather a prescient film, for at the time it was made (pre-1989) there were few (if any) films which featured corporations as the bad guy. As such, in Robocop's world we learn of the corporation, itself corrupt, which controls everything in a corrupt city through its law enforcement operations. Its R+D department produces variations on the idea of the "Robocop" - a cop that doesn't go on strike asking for higher pay or longer ...
...and sometimes all at once. Robocop becomes that Everyman Hero we see in so many films - a semi-Jesus figure who is the only one who can save the world (or in this case, L.A., which to Hollywood is often the same thing). All in all, it combines a good story, style and action, as well as a few very satisfying moments when machines turn on their evil creators. ...

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Robocop is a near-classic movie about a fictional scenario where Detroit is effectively controlled/owned by a corporation known as OCP or Omni-Consumer Products. The real problem with the city of Detroit is the skyrocketing crime rate and OCP wants to transform the whole city by rebuilding it and making it into Delta City. To do this they need to get the crime rate under control. 2nd in command at OCP, Dick Jones, has an idea involving large Enforcement ...

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Robocop is a wonderful science fiction adventure film. Be warned though, it's also quite violent and bloody. Peter Weller stars as Frankenstein's bobby, stitched together with wires and microchips after being convincingly killed by a gang of psychos. Robocop soon proves his worth as the ultimate law-enforcement machine, with one (somewhat predictable) flaw - he can't shake the memories of his previous life as a human being, and his violent "death". ...
...other shoot-em-up sf movies is the sheer wit that Paul Verhoeven brings to it. The film is interspersed with news footage and adverts of "Robocop"'s future society, showing exactly the kind of society we're headed for - everything, even heart surgery, has become a commodity, children play games based on nuclear war, and the suits who run the privatised police force are motivated entirely by sex, drugs and money - leaving space for Verhoeven to imply ...

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