Robocop (DVD)

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Robot Kicks Corporate Ass

4 Jul 12th, 2000

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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 holidays. Most turn out to have subtle flaws, such as one which, when demonstrated to the board, malfunctions and blasts a little-lamented board member out of the window using the machine gun built into its arm. The "Robocop" of the title, though, is in actual fact a cyborg - a combination of man and machine which (according to its creators) ought to have no memories of having been a person. This turns out to be wrong, and thus our hero copes with flashbacks, attempts at reprogramming, and corporate badguys in turn, 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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