Movie Review: Robocop

Ah nothing beats movies from the 80s. A time before every movie was a remake or a sequel of another movie. A decade of campy fun that you can always go back and enjoy even though if the same movie were released today it'd be considered a piece of garbage. Midgets with swords, time machines, gremlins, giant marshmallow men, all of these things could be found in 80s movies. I love movies but today's movies just don't cut it. I had to go back to the 80s to find a good movie to review. A movie like Robocop.

Robocop takes place sometime in the future in Detroit, a city where gang terror rules. Recently there has been many cops who have been killed on duty so a big corporation makes a deal with the city to run the police force.

One of the executives decides to make a crime fighting machine, a police officer that can work 24 hours a day, never has to sleep and never has to eat. He creates the ED 209, the coolest, baddest looking machine since the AT-AT from Star Wars. One of the junior scientists thinks that a better idea is to combine a robot with a human brain so that it can still think for itself. The corporation decides to go on with the ED 209 program and the first prototype is built. But rule 317 of the moviemaking guidebook tells us that whenever someone relies on a machine or robot it WILL malfunction. During the demonstration of the ED 209, it shoots about 30 rounds of bullets into an innocent man. Of course the creator of the ED 209 is pretty nonchalant about the whole thing, "it's a small glitch". Then they decide the ED 209 is not a good idea after all and they want to try the junior scientist's idea of a half man/half robot. So Robocop is born.