Should Anyone See RoboCop? [Video]

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In the not-too-distant future, Detroit has devolved into a haven for criminals. The police department, which the Omni Corporation "purchased" when the city declared bankruptcy, struggles to preserve the calm. But they're losing, and thugs, thieves, murders, and rapists now rule the streets.

Officer Murphy (Peter Weller) has just been assigned to the worst precinct in the city. While on patrol, he and his new partner, Officer Lewis (Nancy Allen), react to a report that leads to a fight with Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) and his gang, arguably Detroit's most dangerous gangsters. Murphy is confronted and shot killed by Boddicker's men in an abandoned warehouse.

A top-secret experiment will be done with Murphy's body after he dies. If it goes well, a new kind of cop with bulletproof armor and state-of-the-art weapons will be born. It was led by Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), who got Omni's top executive, Dick Smith (Ronny Cox), to give him money for his project. The "Robocop Program" is a huge hit, and Robocop is soon patrolling the streets, taking the fight to lawbreakers.

When Robocop enters the streets, the action intensifies, particularly when he's up against Boddicker and his henchmen. Robocop comes into a heist in process on his first night out, with Emil (Paul McCrane), one of Boddicker's men, threatening a gas station employee with an automatic rifle. Aside from being a great action sequence, this clash brings back memories for Robocop, who remembers his old existence after identifying Emil as one of Murphy's murders.

There are also TV news updates on anything from Detroit crime to Mexican social upheaval, and there are even fascinating commercial breaks, like one for a family board game about thermonuclear war. Robocop is a movie that will never tire you since director Verhoeven throws all into it.

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If you don't, enjoy the carnage!

The sequence surprised us in a film that looked to be growing towards a serious thriller. We're not sure where "RoboCop" is headed, which is one of the film's strengths.

Nancy Allen is in the movie as a woman police officer who was Weller's partner before he was shot. In the beginning, she sees something familiar about the robocop, but she doesn't know what it was until later. There is her old partner, Weller, in the suit of steel. In fact, it should have been easy for her to figure it out, because Weller's original nose and mouth can be seen. Batman and Robin say that if you can't see the eyes of someone you know, you won't be able to recognize them. His inventor, on the other hand, seems to agree with that.

I smirked. No one else did either. The robotic audio style was used to make the directives seem to come from a pre-programmed authority that couldn't be appealed to. In "RoboCop," Verhoeven and Weller make good use of the tension between that confident voice and the increasingly perplexed entity behind it.

Weller does an excellent job of eliciting pity for his character, despite the fact that he spends the majority of the film disguised beneath various types of makeup. When he is a robocop, he is actually more "human," than when he is a regular human being early in the film. His story is compelling, and Nancy Allen is convincing as his tenacious companion who is desperate to get the truth about what happened to him.

RoboCop was released in North America on July 17, 1987. In its first weekend, the picture earned $8 million from 1,580 cinemas, an average of $5,068 per theater. The weekend's top films were a re-release of 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ($7.5 million) and the horror sequel Jaws: The Revenge ($7.2 million). RoboCop remained the top film of the weekend with $6.3 million, followed by Snow White ($6.05 million) and Summer School ($6 million). RoboCop earned $4.7 million in its third weekend, behind La Bamba ($5.2 million) and the horror films The Lost Boys ($5.2 million) and The Living Daylights ($11.1 million).

It never came back to the top spot, but RoboCop was in the top ten for six weeks in all. To be fair, the movie made $53.4 million at the box office by the end of its run. A comedy film called Dragnet made $57.4 million this year, making it the fourteenth highest-grossing movie of the year. Crocodile Dundee made $53.6 million, La Bamba made $54.2 million, and comedy film Dragnet made $57.4 million. People outside of North America don't have information about how well the movie did outside of the United States.

Aliens (1986), The Terminator (1984), and the stories of Frankenstein (1931), Repo Man (1984), and Miami Vice were all seen in the movie. They said RoboCop created a unique, futuristic vision for Detroit, just like Blade Runner had done for Los Angeles. People who saw the movie didn't know where to start when trying to figure out what kind of movie it was. They said that it had elements of social satire and philosophy mixed with action and science-fiction, but not in the same way that other movies were.

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