Movie Review: Robocop

Exceedingly violent and yet unimaginably appealing, Robocop pulses with an amazing theme song, shocking bloodshed, heroism, satirical stabs at the media and government corporations, and a penetrating story of sacrifice and revenge. Making use of still phenomenal miniatures and stop motion animation, as well as plenty of explosions, stunts and carnage, Robocop is one of the most important and revolutionary science-fiction films of all time.

Recently transferred police officer Alex J. Murphy (Peter Weller) is out to be a role model for his kid and to clean up the crime-ridden streets of the futuristic, corporation-ruled Detroit. Meanwhile, slimy executives of the largest and most corrupt company OCP battle over whose crime-fighting program will quell the streets: a completely robotic army of deadly metal soldiers or a new Robocop program that makes use of cyborg technology. When Murphy wanders into the clutches of Detroit's most infamous cop killer Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), he is tortured, riddled with bullets, and left for dead. After being pronounced dead at the hospital, Murphy's body is signed over to the Robocop program, making him the first candidate for cyborg transformation. Stripped of his identity, the new half-man, half-machine, all-cop monstrosity begins to disrupt the flow of criminal activities in Detroit. As memories and dreams begin to surge up in Murphy's presumed lifeless brain, Robocop begins a search and destroy mission to reap vengeance on those who took away the life he once cherished.