Robocop remains a great action movie and a brilliant satirizing of Reagan-era corporate greed and excess. We see Detroit falling apart in a dystopian future in which the mayor has turned over control of its underfunded police department to the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products. OCP plans to privatize all of the city’s services, including replacing its cops with androids programmed for perfectly efficient law enforcement. They construct RoboCop from the remains of an officer killed in the line of duty by Detroit’s criminal mastermind. RoboCop successfully takes down a number of bad guys, but things go awry when he begins to experience shadowy memories of his previous life. He focuses on bringing his murderer to justice, which also leads him back to the very corporation that made him. Robocop’s greatness lies in the details that separate it from the typical ‘80s shoot-‘em-up action movie. Who could forget “I’d buy that for a dollar!” from everyone’s favorite TV slapstick sex comedy It's Not My Problem? Kurtwood Smith and Ronny Cox steal the show in their inspired character performances. Make sure you also watch the director’s cut that originally garnered an X rating due to the gratuitous violence!
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