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Robocop (Criterion Collection)

Peter Weller (Actor), Nancy Allen (Actor), Paul Verhoeven (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)

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When it arrived on the big screen in 1987, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop was like a high-voltage jolt of electricity, blending satire, thrills, and abundant violence with such energized gusto that audiences couldn't help feeling stunned and amazed. The movie was a huge hit, and has since earned enduring cult status as one of the seminal science fiction films of the 1980s. Followed by two sequels, a TV series, and countless novels and comic books, this original RoboCop is still the best by far, largely due to the audacity and unbridled bloodlust of director Verhoeven. However, the reasons many enjoyed the film are also the reasons some will surely wish to avoid it. Critic Pauline Kael called the movie a dubious example of "gallows pulp," and there's no denying that its view of mankind is bleak, depraved, and graphically violent. In the Detroit of the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is brutally gunned down by drug-dealing thugs and left for dead, but he survives (half of him, at least) and is integrated with state-of-the-art technology to become a half-robotic cop of the future, designed to revolutionize law enforcement. As RoboCop holds tight to his last remaining shred of humanity, he relentlessly pursues the criminals who "killed" him. All the while, Verhoeven (from a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner) injects this high-intensity tale with wickedly pointed humor and satire aimed at the men and media who cover a city out of control. --Jeff Shannon

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic action movie that makes Kill Bill a comedy, Jun 29 2004
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Terrence J Reardon "Classic rock guru" (Lake Worth, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Robocop (Widescreen) (DVD)
The 1987 classic Robocop is one of my all time favorite movies next to Scarface(1983), First Blood(1982), Goodfellas(1990), Braveheart(1995), The Exorcist(1973), Animal House(1978) and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie(1979). When I first saw this movie in 1988 when I was 12, I was in for a time of my life. As for the first Robocop(forget the sequels), Old Detroit has become a violent wonderland of criminal activity. New officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) and Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) are partners in a police force under siege from OCP, a company that wants to turn Old Detroit into a Metropolis kind of place. Whilst pursuing particularly bloodthirsty and disgusting badguys, led by the reprehensible Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), whom had some of the funniest lines ever uttered by a villain in film, Murphy is captured, tortured, shot full of holes and killed. This scene is rather disturbing to watch for those who don't like violence. After his death, Murphy becomes ROBOCOP. Murphy now has a mechanical body and becomes a walking weapon of mass destruction! He in initially goes out to clean up the streets and uphold the law. However, the scientists forgot that he was human and Robocop subsequently has a flashback to the night that his human form was killed and is later haunted by memories of his wife and son. The nightmare sequence sets up one of the best revenge films I've ever seen next to the first First Blood. ROBOCOP then finds out the sinister secrets of OCP's #2 man (Ronny Cox) after assaulting Clarence and must do battle with the ED-209, an earlier robotic crimefighter design with heavy-duty guns and missiles. The rest of the film is great too. I can't give more away, you have to watch. Highly recommended!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars MANUFACTURING GONE WRONG ON DISC TWO, Aug 23 2007
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This review is from: Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition) (DVD)
The second disc in this set is an exact copy of the first disc! there is NO supplements, no uncut version, nothing, its disc one again with all the art for disc two printed on it. I wish I never bought this because of the return policy of opened software (games programs and DVD's) at my local Future Shop, but hopefully they do a disc exchange program like they did with the Back to the Future discs and Ultimate Superman (which I bought at the same time and ironically had all correct discs in there!)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars 2nd Disc is Wrong: Do Not Buy!, Aug 22 2007
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Douglas A. Walker (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition) (DVD)
The 2nd disc is wrong (it's the same as the first, despite appearances), though only in Canada: wait until the error is fixed before ordering, or order from the States. It's strictly a problem with the Canadian pressing. You've been warned!
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