RoboCop

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RoboCop

PG-13

Released Feb 12, 2014

1h 57m

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In 2028, OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. While its drones have long been used by the military overseas, their use is forbidden in American law enforcement. However, OmniCorp gets a golden opportunity to crack that market when Detroit cop Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is critically injured in the line of duty. By transforming Murphy into a cyborg, OmniCorp executives hope to rake in billions for their shareholders, but they forget one thing: There's still a man inside the machine.

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Critics Consensus

While it's far better than it could have been, José Padilha's RoboCop remake fails to offer a significant improvement over the original.

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Scott Tobias

The Dissolve

[A]fter an opening sequence as promising as the one here, it needs at least an attempted follow-through, not the jumble of confused ideas and time-wasting effects that take up the bulk of the film.

Rated: 2.0/5

Feb 20, 2014

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Christopher Orr

The Atlantic

Surveying the peculiar array of 1980s retreads clustered into release this week, I'm reminded of Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II, traveling forward in time 30 years to discover that everything is still the same, only worse.

Feb 14, 2014

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

The Brazilian director José Padilha may be working for a Hollywood studio but he doesn't temper his critique of American imperialism, big business and political corruption.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 14, 2014

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James Croot

The Post NZ

What could have been a depressing assault on the childhood of those who grew up in the 1980s was instead one of the best action-sci-fi movies since Minority Report over a decade earlier.

Rated: 5/5

Apr 4, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

It isn’t as provocative as it wants to be. It isn’t as clever as it tries to be. It isn’t as witty as it needs to be. But it is more fun than I ever expected it to be.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 24, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

A smarter-than-average actioner that may not be as fun or edgy as Verhoeven’s, but manages to do what remakes so often strive and fail to accomplish: It achieves a new take on an old classic and does so with enough innovation to warrant its existence.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 18, 2022

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Mihai Daniel P

Got way more hate than it deserves - it retains the original's essence while successfully flipping it on its head and aligning it to modern times and technological developments. What drags it down is the studio getting cold feet and enforcing a baffling pg13 rating - they should have left Padilla do his own thing.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/09/25

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Madam D

This version certainly has better actors than the original, and I like how the focus is on the human portion of RoboCop. So many reviews seem to think that a remake is a bad idea. There are many interesting plots that have been made many times over. So what's the problem?

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/08/25

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Bryan S

It's kind of hard to put my finger on what was so bad about this movie. The special effects were good enough. Most of the acting (everyone except the guy playing Alex Murphy) was good enough. The story might be a little too heavy on the 'evil corporation' trope, but nothing more than a hundred other perfectly good movies. However, for me this movie is less than the sum of its parts. I just didn't enjoy it at all. About halfway through, I turned it off and found something better to do.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/30/25

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thiago s

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/30/25

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Harvey D

It's a mostly forgettable movie, but I found it to be entertaining at times.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/09/25

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TorQue M

The movie definitely pales in comparrison to the original, but that's to be expected considering how awesome the original was. I doubt even Verhoeven would be able to make a good follow up. With that out of the way, the 2014 remake is a decent movie. Is it amazing? No. It is however a decently fun film with some good acting and great supporting cast. I'd love to see what they could do with a new RoboCop movie now. Hopefully Amazon's version lives up to the original, but even if it doesn't, it's RoboCop so they'll have me watching day one.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/11/25

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Synopsis

In 2028, OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. While its drones have long been used by the military overseas, their use is forbidden in American law enforcement. However, OmniCorp gets a golden opportunity to crack that market when Detroit cop Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is critically injured in the line of duty. By transforming Murphy into a cyborg, OmniCorp executives hope to rake in billions for their shareholders, but they forget one thing: There's still a man inside the machine.

Director: José Padilha
Producer: Marc Abraham, Eric Newman
Screenwriter: Joshua Zetumer
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Strike Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Frenetic Gun Violence|Brief Strong Language|Intense Sequences of Action|Sensuality|Some Drug Material)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 12, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 12, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $58.6M
Runtime: 1h 57m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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