Paul Verhoeven directed this sci-fi adventure movie.\u00a0 Strangely he made it to be a satire of the violence of law enforcement during the Reagan administration but audiences liked its anti-crime message.<\/p>\n
(Spoiler Alert \u2013 Skip down to last paragraph to avoid spoilers and read recommendation)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n RoboCop opens up on a police precinct in Detroit (Metro-West).\u00a0 It\u2019s some kind of futuristic present (1980s) where the dystopian crime-ridden Detroit is being addressed with the introduction of robotic police.\u00a0 The first prototype is being demonstrated at an executive board meeting of OCP, a technology company that surprisingly also has links to the underworld.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the robot gets a glitch in his programming and kills one of the officers of the company during a demonstration.\u00a0 This reflects poorly on Dick Jones, the senior vice president and also secretly, the contact for the underworld figures involved with OCP.\u00a0 The failure of the prototype allows Jones\u2019s competitor, Bob Morton to steer the company toward a different robot cop concept.\u00a0 Morton\u2019s version is a man whose brain has been destroyed in an accident and whose body can then be retrofitted with robotic limbs and an electronic brain.<\/p>\n Enter Alex Murphy a young cop with a wife and young son.\u00a0 He\u2019s just been transferred to Metro-West where he\u2019s paired with street smart woman cop Anne Lewis who, of course, has a heart of gold.\u00a0 They head out to do good and get involved with a criminal gang headed up by Clarence Boddicker (played by Kurtwood Smith, who played Topher Grace\u2019s father, Red on \u201cThat Seventies Show\u201d).\u00a0 Boddicker is Dick Jones\u2019s criminal partner.\u00a0 He\u2019s also a sadistic maniac.\u00a0 When his gang captures Murphy, Boddicker personally mutilates him by blowing his limbs off with a shotgun.\u00a0 Then his men finish him off with their guns.\u00a0 Lewis escapes and goes for help.<\/p>\n In the next scene Murphy\u2019s body has been converted into a cyborg that has been named RoboCop and assigned to Metro-West.\u00a0 He has four prime directives<\/p>\n Of course, the last directive is a secret one built in by OCP to allow them to break the law with impunity.<\/p>\n Now RoboCop begins to discover the link between Boddicker\u2019s gang and the murder of Officer Murphy.\u00a0 Although RoboCop is not supposed to have any memory of his former life it does start to creep into his consciousness.\u00a0 During this time, he captures several of the gang members and discovers the link between OCP and Boddicker.\u00a0 At this point in the story Dick Jones has Boddicker murder Bob Morton.<\/p>\n Finally, RoboCop manages to arrest Boddicker and his gang but Jones has them released.\u00a0 Identifying Jones as the OCP link to Boddicker, RoboCop attempts to arrest him but discovers prime directive four prevents him.\u00a0 Now RoboCop is attacked by the OCP SWAT Team and escapes after being damaged.\u00a0 Officer Lewis hides him in a factory where she assists him in repairing himself.<\/p>\n The final showdown against Boddicker\u2019s gang includes the use of rocket powered grenades that OCP has provided to Boddicker.\u00a0 After a drawn-out battle RoboCop kills the whole gang.\u00a0 Boddicker offers to surrender but RoboCop tells him \u201cI\u2019m not here to arrest you.\u201d\u00a0 And so, he kills Boddicker in cold blood.\u00a0 Apparently, his restored memories have superseded some of his programming.<\/p>\n Finally, RoboCop shows up at the OCP board room to expose Dick Jones as a criminal.\u00a0 When Jones takes the Chairman of the Board hostage RoboCop reveals to him that he cannot arrest any OCP executive.\u00a0 The Chairman says, \u201cJones you\u2019re fired.\u201d\u00a0 And RoboCop immediately dispatches Jones with a full clip of bullets that drive him through the window of the skyscraper penthouse to his death on the pavement below.<\/p>\n RoboCop is a cartoon of a movie.\u00a0 The villains are cartoon characters.\u00a0 The hero is a robot almost completely devoid of personality.\u00a0 Even the good guys are cartoon sketches of cop movie stereotypes.\u00a0 The violence and weaponry are both over the top.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely a 1980s action movie.\u00a0 But within its genre and its intent it\u2019s an enjoyable cartoon.\u00a0 Everyone is waiting for RoboCop to finally kill off the sadistic psychopaths that murdered his alter ego who once was a husband and father.\u00a0 I recommend this movie to fans of the genre.\u00a0 If you liked some of Schwarzenegger\u2019s movies from that era, like Predator and Terminator you\u2019ll probably like this movie too.\u00a0 If not then maybe not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Verhoeven directed this sci-fi adventure movie.\u00a0 Strangely he made it to be a satire of the violence of law enforcement during the Reagan 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