Hard to believe that we hadn't seen RoboCop - until now.
I'm sure you're all familiar with Paul Verhoeven's 1987 satirical action film. It stars Peter Weller as an ethereally handsome cop, transferred to the urban hellhole of Detroit. The Detroit police are being run by a corporation that wants to replace them with something more efficient. When Weller gets killed by a gang, they rebuild him into RoboCop! Obedient, unstoppable, and doesn't strike for better funding.
There's plenty of action, but also a lot of commentary on the morals of corporate life, almost all of it just as fresh today as it was 25 years ago - even the disco scene looked timeless. Glad we caught up with it.
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My wife and I took our then 12-year-old niece to see Robocop and left midway through the movie because we thought it was too violent and the language too rough. Nowadays, Robocop could air on the Disney Channel and not raise an eyebrow.
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