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RoboCop (1987)
This was a pretty enjoyable flick with some classic bloody action scenes and a quite dark atmosphere in a sci-fi version of Detroit. This film also deserves a thumbs up for its great special effects and more particularly for the convincingly real looking main character (certainly in the ending scenes where we can see his whole face).
The story starts with the introduction of a guy, named Alex Murphy. He has just been replaced to a new police division in Detroit where crime seems to rule. When he's on a mission with his partner, he gets killed by some mob guys, while his partner is able to escape.
Meanwhile in the higher offices of the city, there is a meeting of a sort of private security firm (who bought out the police of the city), named OCP. There is a demonstration of the ED-209, a machine who has to serve as a cop or a military weapon. The machine doesn't really seem to be working well, though, and one of the less important guys of the meeting takes his chance and asks the big boss to listen to one of his ideas, the RoboCop plan.
He basically uses a human body, in this case the body of Alex Murphy, revives it with the use of a computer program (with some basic rules the robot has to follow) and protects it with a nice armour, so he can function as a 'very hard to beat' cop.
The system isn't completely faultless, though, as it slowly seems that RoboCop still has some human aspects that define his behaviour strongly. He also starts to remember some small fragments of his former life and he tries to look for his own identity.
The film also is very satiric. It uses some fictional news reports and commercials to show the viewers the atmosphere of the future world and what precisely is going on.
Besides all these good things, the story still is pretty cliché and predictable, with the exception of one or two surprising moments and a few more graphical violent scenes that weren't completely ordinary and expected.
Luckily, there were some small things that made the story a little more interesting, such as some symbolic scenes where we can fantasize about the resemblance between some events in RoboCop and those in the bible (his hands also get pierced in a certain way, we see a shot of him walking on water and he literally turns water into red with his bloodshed). They aren't necessarily important, but these kind of small references are always fun!
I had a good time watching this flick, so I rate this movie:
+
RoboCop (1987)
This was a pretty enjoyable flick with some classic bloody action scenes and a quite dark atmosphere in a sci-fi version of Detroit. This film also deserves a thumbs up for its great special effects and more particularly for the convincingly real looking main character (certainly in the ending scenes where we can see his whole face).
The story starts with the introduction of a guy, named Alex Murphy. He has just been replaced to a new police division in Detroit where crime seems to rule. When he's on a mission with his partner, he gets killed by some mob guys, while his partner is able to escape.
Meanwhile in the higher offices of the city, there is a meeting of a sort of private security firm (who bought out the police of the city), named OCP. There is a demonstration of the ED-209, a machine who has to serve as a cop or a military weapon. The machine doesn't really seem to be working well, though, and one of the less important guys of the meeting takes his chance and asks the big boss to listen to one of his ideas, the RoboCop plan.
He basically uses a human body, in this case the body of Alex Murphy, revives it with the use of a computer program (with some basic rules the robot has to follow) and protects it with a nice armour, so he can function as a 'very hard to beat' cop.
The system isn't completely faultless, though, as it slowly seems that RoboCop still has some human aspects that define his behaviour strongly. He also starts to remember some small fragments of his former life and he tries to look for his own identity.
The film also is very satiric. It uses some fictional news reports and commercials to show the viewers the atmosphere of the future world and what precisely is going on.
Besides all these good things, the story still is pretty cliché and predictable, with the exception of one or two surprising moments and a few more graphical violent scenes that weren't completely ordinary and expected.
Luckily, there were some small things that made the story a little more interesting, such as some symbolic scenes where we can fantasize about the resemblance between some events in RoboCop and those in the bible (his hands also get pierced in a certain way, we see a shot of him walking on water and he literally turns water into red with his bloodshed). They aren't necessarily important, but these kind of small references are always fun!
I had a good time watching this flick, so I rate this movie:
+