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RoboCop
In an overly commercialized future, desensitized to violence, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
29 October 1957
20 April 1934, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
15 January 1945, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
26 March 1957, Hartsville, South Carolina, USA
11 September 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 January 1927, Dallas, Texas, USA
28 April 1944, London, England, UK
14 January 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 May 1919, Wexford, Ireland
April 21, 2014
Paul Verhoeven on blockbuster explosions like Douglas Sirk on lachrymose households
February 11, 2014
The story amounts to a celebration of brute force in a crudely etched law-and-order context.
February 11, 2014
When the law-enforcing RoboCop cleans up corrupt Motown, his victory is satisfying because he's got machinery and morals on his side. RoboCop is where high-tech meets High Noon.
February 11, 2014
Paul Verhoeven's glorious sci-fi satire combines searing social comedy with some of the most graphic ultra-violence ever to grace legitimate cinema.
July 14, 2009
A sci-fi action film with a silly title that turned out to be a biting satire of big business practices.
February 11, 2014
RoboCop relies for most of its impact -- and, more disturbingly, for much of its comedy -- on an absurd exaggeration of physical force.
June 05, 2007
There's a brooding, agonized quality to the violence that almost seems subversive, as if Verhoeven were both appalled and fascinated by his complicity in the toxic action rot.
February 11, 2014
Like the tormented figure at its center, this movie combines the mechanical with the human. And though much of the film is made up of spare parts from cop shows, exploitation flicks and comic books, it nevertheless comes to life.
February 18, 2014
A perfect version of the thing it sets out to be, one of the most intellectual and propulsive of all '80s action films.
February 11, 2014
Robocop is a strangely perverse pleasure. Who would expect such a rattletrap concoction to emerge as this summer's sleeper?
February 11, 2014
Verhoeven's strong suits have always been visual energy and a Rabelaisan realism: a gutsy, jovial way of ripping through social systems.
February 11, 2014
It proceeds from a vision, and it takes that vision seriously. It ends up being moving -- and for a comic book of a movie, that's no small achievement.
