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In a violent, post-apocalyptic Detroit, Omni Consumer Products is hired by the city to privatize the police department. The firm forces street officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) into a shootout with criminal boss Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) to test its untested RoboCop prototype. The company's evil schemes turn RoboCop against his masters.

In Paul Verhoeven's Robocop, a slain cop is converted into the ultimate crime-fighting machine. Robocop is a wonderful action film with excellent moments and a great idea.

A police officer named Murphy (Peter Weller) has just been moved to one of the city's most dangerous places. In the middle of the night, he and his new partner, Officer Lewis (Nancy Allen), respond to a call that leads them into a fight with Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) and his gang, who are easily the most vicious criminals in the whole city of Detroit. Murphy is cornered and killed by Boddicker's men in a warehouse that hasn't been used in a long time.

There's more to Officer Murphy than meets the eye at first.

But is Robocop actually a machine or will his “human” history haunt him?

Robocop is a great mix of sci-fi and action. There are a lot of great scenes in this movie. When Murphy and Boddicker's gang first fight, it's very bloody. Boddicker blows Murphy's hand off with a shotgun, and Verhoeven shows us every bloody part of it (in the uncut version, anyway). In the Omni Corporation's board room, Dick Jones is staging a demonstration of his favorite project, the ED-209, which is a huge robot with a lot of weapons. There are still some problems with the ED-209, which become clear when it blows away Kinney (Kevin Page), the young businessman who agreed to be a test subject!

There are still thrills to be had when Robocop goes out on the streets, but the best parts are when he takes on Boddicker and his gang. On his first night out, Robocop comes across a robbery in progress. Emil, one of Boddicker's men, is threatening a gas station attendant with an automatic weapon. Robocop, after he recognizes Emil as one of Murphy's killers, thinks back to his own past. This fight is also a good action scene.

There are also TV news updates on anything from crime in Detroit to social turmoil in Mexico, and there are even a few interesting commercial breaks throughout these broadcasts, my favorite of which is for a family board game about thermonuclear war. Robocop is a film that director Paul Verhoeven throws everything but the kitchen sink at, and as a consequence, you will never be bored watching it.

As if that weren't enough, Robocop also explores what it means to be human, with your body transformed but your memories unaffected. Verhoeven's film has a lot to say about the human condition by focusing on issues like corporate greed, widespread crime, and personal identity (which comes into play when Robocop / Murphy recalls his life before the suit).

If you don't, enjoy the carnage!

People are having a lot of fun with this. I don't know if it was even more funny before the MPAA Code and Ratings Administration asked for some changes. If you think about Chaplin's "Modern Times" you will see that the assembly line in the movie is very funny. This is because there is something funny about logic being used in a situation where it doesn't apply.

The film is set in a futuristic Detroit when gang terror reigns supreme. A slew of heinous officer murders has occurred. A large firm wants to sell robot police as a way to reduce crime, but the demonstration model is clearly inadequate.

There are a lot of familiar thriller lines in the broad outline of the story. In other words, this isn't a typical thriller. The film's director has been Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, who has worked on films like "Soldier of Orange" and the "The Fourth Man." His movies can't be put into a category because they're so different. You'll see a lot of comedy in this movie, even slapstick comedy. There is a lot of love in the world. In some philosophy, the question "What is a man?" is at the heart of it. During the movie, there is also pointed social satire, as the robocop takes some of Bernhard Goetz's traits and some of his fan base.

I made a funny face. Nobody else had done anything like that. The objective of the robotic audio style was clear: to make the directives seem to come from a pre-programmed authority that could not be appealed to, despite the fact that the recorded message could have been produced in a normal human voice. The dichotomy between that totally comfortable voice and the progressively bewildered creature behind it provides a lot of mileage for Verhoeven and Weller in "RoboCop,"

When RoboCop first came out in North America, it was on July 17, 1987, and it was available in a lot of places. When the movie opened, it made $8 million from 1,580 theaters, which is an average of $5,068 for each theater. In the first week of its release, it was the weekend's top-grossing movie. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ($7.5 million) and Jaws: The Revenge ($7.2 million) came in second and third. This second weekend, RoboCop continued to hold on to the top spot with an extra $6.3 million in ticket sales. It was ahead of Snow White ($6.05 million) and Summer School ($6 million). During its third weekend, RoboCop made $4.7 million. It came in fourth behind La Bamba ($5.2 million), The Lost Boys ($5.2 million) and The Living Daylights ($11.1 million).

1987 established a record for box-office revenue of $1.6 billion, slightly surpassing the previous record of $1.58 billion set in 1984, thanks in part to increased ticket prices and an additional week of the theatrical summer. Unlike the previous summer, when numerous blockbusters were released, such as Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the summer of 1987 only had one: Beverly Hills Cop II. Despite this, a number of films, notably RoboCop, had done rather well, grossing a total of $274 million, a 50% increase over 1986. Teen-oriented films, such as RoboCop and Beverly Hills Cop II, had a 22 percent reduction in performance when compared to comparable 1986 releases. The box office for adult-oriented films increased by 39%. RoboCop was a surprising hit this summer, and it helped Orion's fortunes improve.

The Terminator (1984) and Aliens (1986) action, as well as the storylines of Frankenstein (1931), Repo Man (1984), and the television series Miami Vice, were all noted as inspirations in the film by critics. Two critics remarked that RoboCop, like Blade Runner, gave Detroit a unique, future image. Several reviewers struggled to pinpoint the film's genre, claiming that it blended social satire and philosophy with aspects of action, science fiction, thrillers, Westerns, slapstick humor, romance, snuff pictures, superhero comics, and kitsch without being unoriginal.

Many reviews criticized the film's violence. Ebert and the LA Times found the violence so out of hand that it became intentionally humorous, with Ebert claiming that ED-209 murdering a CEO defied expectations of a serious and straightforward science-fiction thriller. The Los Angeles Times said the violent images succeeded in generating both sadism and poignancy. Other critics, including Kehr and Walter Goodman, thought RoboCop's humor and criticisms of corporate corruption were just justifications for violent imagery. There was something "brooding, agonized" about the brutality, The Chicago Reader noted, as though Verhoeven was both horrified and enthralled.

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