Prismark10 Paul Verhoeven made a hyper violent satirical action film about corporate America in 1987.This remake has Samuel L Jackson's media host Pat Novak making right wing social commentary and an early sequence of Iran being liberated by US robo-soldiers but this part is then jettisoned.What we get is Alex Murphy massacred by a gang of criminals and rebooted as a half man half cyborg Robocop. Alex Murphy still has memories of his past life and wants to avenge his death. The boss of OmniCorp Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton) sees Robocop as the future of law enforcement and wants to overturn legislation that outlaws cyborg cops. Robocop's designer Dr Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman) is sceptical of the uses OmniCorp has for Robocop.The film lacks the kinetic energy, satirical bite and the cartoon violence of the original. The film drags too often, parts of it are dull. In fact when I re-watched this film several years after its release I forgot Samuel L Jackson and Michael Keaton were in this movie. That is how forgettable the movie is and Joel Kinnaman in the lead is just a blank.

hat_city Now I understand that a lot of people feel upset about how this remake departed from the original. After all, the original Robocop was a masterpiece. The dark comedy, the violence, the 1980's.... no remake could ever recreate that. After all, we're not living in the 1980's anymore.But thanks to other people's scathing reviews, I approached this movie with low expectations and I was actually very pleasantly surprised. While the dark comedy aspect of Robocop is very much toned down in the remake, and yes the weepy family moments are a little overdone (and that's why I don't give it 10 stars), I think this movie still maintains a lot of good qualities.Example: in the original Robocop, the battle scenes were actually very disappointing. They involved Robocop lumbering slowly through a warehouse, full of guys just standing there unloading their AK's at him to no avail. He shot them down one by one, and nobody ever grew a brain and realized their rifles were no use. But in the remake, I think the gunfights were a lot more realistic. The new Robocop is fast and agile, and also vulnerable to gunfire. He doesn't just stand there stupidly and let bullets bounce off of him, he ducks and weaves and takes cover, gets hit occasionally and actually gets hurt from it. So in that sense I'd say the remake improved on the original.Also, the evil Omnicorp is as evil as ever, albeit in a flashy 21st century kind of way. The sinister 1980's businessmen in suits have been replaced with soulless, clever Steve Jobs types, which I found to be a pleasing illustration of how the corporate scumbag class has evolved over the past 30+ years.There's also the deep-rooted corruption within the police force and within Corporate America that lies at the root of all evil, and Robocop wants more than anything to root it out. But his programming does not allow him to do so. That, I believe, is the central message of the original Robocop that has been preserved in the remake. I think the movie would have been an absolute fail if they tried to erase that central message.So all in all, this remake has been adapted for the 21st century audience, for better or for worse. I think they did a really good job, all things considered. My only real complaint is that the dark comedy was removed, presumably to reach a wider audience. Because of that flaw, I give it 7/10 stars.

generationofswine You see a lot of people telling you "don't compare this with the original" There's a reason for that. Robocop 2014 is not the same movie. The specifically effects are better, there is a little more action, and RoboCop has an upgrade.But then in exchange for those attributes, they stripped away the satire...Hollywood is convinced that "Millennials don't understand satire," and they are right. Seriously, give them a copy of The Onion, they just don't understand it...So the satire that made it so popular is gone.And with the satire went all social commentary. Everything insightful is gone. RoboCop 2014 really is not void of, well, anything.And mind you, this was made in 2014, in the era where the Libertarians, the TEA Party, and even your run-of-the-mill Republicans are screaming that everything needs to be privatized. The door is wide-open given the plot of the original...and 2014 to have really nothing to say about that.this is also in an era where we have self-driving cars, where we have robots working fast-food, where we are seriously looking at a future with self-driving semi-trucks. We are technologically advancing millions of people out of their jobs, we are handing entire careers over to robots and computers...and again, despite the abundantly clear link 2014 has weigh in one that...near silence.It seems they sat down and made a movie that had as little to say as humanly possible to the point where they even ignored even what the source material had to say.Have you ever cracked open a peanut shell only to find there was nothing inside it but air? That's RoboCop 2014

Eddie Cantillo Robocop(2014) Starring:Joel,Killnman,Gary Oldman,Michael Keaton,Abbie Cornish,and Jay Burchael. Directed By: José Padilha Review Movie dead or alive your coming with me,but I prefer dead. So Robocop a movie that was utterly remade for absolutely no reason other then to make a couple hundred bucks. I have never seen the original but just the name of the character Robocop sounds fascinating. So basically you've got detective Alex Murphy who is this honest cop in this normal cliché area that doesn't like honest cops for some reason.What grinds my gutters the most is when scifi films like this use to have atmosphere and other-worldly sense to them,none of this now tiring and annoying trend of realism. Realism isn't a bad thing but when your reintroducing a nostalgic icon like Robocop,batman,or even the freaking ninja turtles you have to step up your game and get creative with the worlds they inhabit. Cause I do not want to see a character named Robocop in freaking suburbia! This is not atmosphere,this is not an environment people see Robocop inhabit,this is pure laziness! This is lame,this is a freaking Joke! Have some dang passion! Anyway being the honest cop that he is Alex Murphy is blown by a car bomb. But lucky for him Dr.Norton and Raymond Sellars are developing a procedure that could potentially save his life.Later Alex Murphy becomes Robocop and after forty five minutes actually starts to do things relevant the plot. Now let's talk about the good even though there isn't much. Joel KIllnman is a stellar choice for Robocop, Keaton is incredible good in some scenes but in others he can become incredibly generic because the script really doesn't know what to do with him half the time.Gary Oldman does a good job as playing Dr.Norton who creates the Robocop suit to bring Murphy back from the dead and the scnes with him Killnman and Keaton he has chemistry between them drawing the line between him being a protagonist or antagonist even though you can already guess he's going to be a protagonist, which takes away the mystery. And the pacing feels a little nice. Now let's get on the bad side,I did like the idea of his family being in the movie but they come as plot devices instead of characters.It was like they said hey let's add a family for this character so we can act like we have an emotional attachment to this character when in reality we have no idea what were going to do with them.They weren't bad they were just really cheap.The action scenes are completely hit and miss,this film has action scenes are action scenes that bring nothing new to the table,it's every generic action scene you have seen a million times before. Nothing of it stands out. For example there is a scene that is completely shot in the dark so we can't see a dang thing. Kind of like that scene in Alone in the dark where the monsters are coming to attack and everyone comes in shooting in the dark and we can't tell what there shooting at. It could have worked for this film but just doesn't if you factor in that Murphy's suit is entirely black! I don't hate this movie but I don't like it that much either and trust me you won't either.It has a decent pace,good performances and some entertaining although unimaginative action scenes. I'm giving this new Robocop a two and a half out of five.