RoboCop

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Gabriel Thanks for bringing back this classic! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/29/21 Full Review Joseph V Never seen this movie till now. Really enjoyed it and glad that it was brought back for a Tuesday night classic Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/29/21 Full Review Darcy J SUPER FUNNY, GORY, ACTION PACKED AND OVERALL AN AMAZING 80S ACTION MOVIE!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/13/25 Full Review Madam D Have lost track of how many times I've seen this film, but it never gets old. The idea of machines being cops & soldiers is not a new idea now, but still as creepy. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/05/25 Full Review Will G A fairy tale of love and romance in old detroit. Prince Alex dons a suit of armour to defeat prince Clarence and overthrow king Richard. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/01/25 Full Review Star S =☆ A Film That Shouldn’t Work ☆= RoboCop is one of those movies that, on paper, sounds like it should have been a throwaway action flick. A cyborg cop cleaning up a futuristic Detroit could have easily been another forgettable VHS rental. Instead, Paul Verhoeven delivered one of the sharpest pieces of satire wrapped in an action film ever made. The tone is brutal, funny, and smart all at once. It’s gory, it’s absurd, and yet it never loses sight of what it’s saying about corporate greed, media saturation, and the dehumanization of working people. That combination is why the film still holds up almost forty years later. =☆ Violence With Purpose ☆= The violence is extreme, and that’s part of why the movie was controversial at the time. But it’s not mindless. Every over-the-top effect, from Murphy’s execution to ED-209 malfunctioning in a boardroom, is pointed. The brutality is meant to shock, to make you laugh and then feel guilty about laughing, and to underline how cheap life becomes when profit is the only thing that matters. Unlike most action movies of its era, the violence in RoboCop serves the story rather than distracting from it. =☆ Peter Weller and the Humanity Under the Helmet ☆= Peter Weller deserves every bit of credit for why this film works. His performance as Murphy and then RoboCop is astonishingly controlled. Once he’s in the suit, every movement is precise, every line delivered with a balance of mechanical detachment and buried humanity. By the time he says his name at the end, “Murphy,” it lands like a gut punch. The whole point of the film is whether or not there’s still a man inside the machine, and Weller makes you believe there is. =☆ Satire That Aged Better Than It Should Have ☆= The commercials, the news breaks, the corporate jargon, RoboCop predicted more about our world than it had any right to. It feels more relevant now than it did in the 90s when I first saw it on cable. Watching as someone born in 1994, it’s eerie how much it reflects the kind of corporate dystopia we’ve actually slid into. The absurdity of “I’d buy that for a dollar!” isn’t even far off from the way memes and ad campaigns get recycled today. =☆ Why It’s a Five-Star Classic ☆= RoboCop is violent, funny, tragic, and satirical without losing sight of being entertaining. It’s easy to remember the gore or the one-liners, but what sticks with me most is that it’s about a man rediscovering himself after being stripped of everything by a system that sees him as expendable. That story will never get old. I was born after it came out, but when I finally saw it as a teenager in the 2000s, it floored me. Even now, with countless sci-fi films that have borrowed from it, nothing else quite nails the mix of satire and sincerity the way RoboCop does. Five stars, no hesitation. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/23/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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