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RoboCop (2014)

Directed by José Padilha

Action | Science Fiction | Crime

Most recently watched by JohnPeel, archstanton43, ashe5k, seanCduregger, danielt, schofizzy, themarc, jcdeleon1, PeterMartin

Overview

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology.  Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America.  Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it.  When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer.  OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

Rated PG-13 | Length 118 minutes

Actors

Joel Kinnaman | Gary Oldman | Michael Keaton | Abbie Cornish | Jackie Earle Haley | Michael Kenneth Williams | Jennifer Ehle | Jay Baruchel | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Samuel L. Jackson | Aimee Garcia | Douglas Urbanski | John Paul Ruttan | Patrick Garrow | K. C. Collins | WBBrown II | Zach Grenier | Philip Akin | Daniel Kash | Maura Grierson | Stewart Arnott | Matt Cooke | Steve Cumyn | Noorin Gulamgaus | Marjan Neshat | Sam Motazedi | Husein Khalia | Savana Hosein | Paul Haywood | Adrian Griffin | Rick Hughes | Raffi Altounian | Melanie Scrofano | Kelvin Wheeler | Alex Mallari Jr. | Dwayne McLean | Tattiawna Jones | Wayne Downer | Robert Thomas | Jordan Johnson-Hinds | Ian Peters | Ricardo Betancourt | Evan Stern | Ishan Morris | Ambrose Wong | Mark McKay | Aurora Browne | Rory O'Shea | Shondra Kayd | Stacey Unsworth | Jeana Lowes | Kanu Giddings | Tamara Almeida | Shane Inverary | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Thomas Mitchell | Ian Butcher | Rocky Anderson | Dalias Blake | Barry Nerling | Dean Redman | Demord Dann | Darcy Hinds | Sean Francis | Steve Wright | Kirby Morrow | David Harcourt | Kevin Hare | Carlyn Burchell | Markus Parilo | Jessica Booker | Joe Merritt | Raiden Eastman | Aaliyah Cinello | Meghan Hoople | Prince Massey | Sharon Canovas | Tommy Chang | Raven Cinello

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Not nearly as bad as I feared based on the WOM and advance buzz. Definitely feels like the studio dictated how this was going to go down and Padilha didn’t get to make the movie he could have made, which is unfortunate but not surprising.

Kinnaman is fine in the lead. It’s his surrounding cast that really makes this Robocop work sans Jackson, who is comical and unneeded here. I like Oldman and Keaton and even Jackie Earle Haley. Abbie Cornish is also a nice standout even if she wasn’t given much to do.

I’d watch this again when it hits home video.

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