RoboCop (2014)

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

SUIT #1: Hey guys... let's take an adrenaline-soaked cartoony slice of high octane, wryly satirical and funny ultraviolent 80s action, and re-imagine it as a slick, soulless, irony- free, pretentious, odiously self important emo fest that goes on for too long. Great idea yes?SUIT #2: You sir, are a genius.

Sometimes I wonder whether the directors of these remakes are sitting down watching the original film and thinking – gee, these special effects are really bad, I can do much better than that – and then proceed to remake the a film that ends up rubbing me up the wrong way. Okay, the world has changed since 1987, and film technology, as well as computer technology, has advanced significantly, but sometimes (actually most times) I feel that maybe the remakes should be left in the past and the creators attempt to use their juices (if they actually have any) to create something original (if that is at all possible).If you know the original film then you pretty much know the plot of this film. Sure, the names have been changed to protect the guilty (not really, but I suspect they wanted to attempt to distance themselves somewhat from the original, but not too far), and the plot is a little, not much, but a little, different. However, the basic premise is the same – Alex Murphy is killed in the line of duty so a multi-national corporation buys his body and turns him into a cyborg. The difference is that in the original film the fully automated robots weren't working, where as in this one they were, it was just that the American government weren't too keen on having them deployed on the streets, so they instead created this Robocop to help encourage the politicians to change their minds.The other really annoying thing was this talk/opinion piece that kept on popping up through the film – it was entirely unnecessary. Well, probably not, but like most opinion shows and shock jocks, I basically hate them because they talk as if their opinion is the only one that counts and anybody that holds an opposing opinion can be quiet. Sure, while I can simply turn off the television in the real world, this is a movie, and when this pain in the neck appeared on the screen it really isn't all that easy to change the channel. In fact, right through the piece, it seemed as if he was in league with the bad guys. The other thing was that the original just had some really cool ads, including a game show called 'I'll buy that for a dollar'.While there were some interesting aspects to this film, in the end, as far as I am concerned, it was a flop. Personally, I think I'll just revert back to the original, and the two sequels that followed on behind as opposed to this failed attempt at a reboot.

I watched Paul Verhoeven's film as soon as it was released and I was impressed by the violence but also by the script's intelligence. I confess that I was anxious to watch the new version of Verhoeven's film, even because director José Padilha is my compatriot (Brazilian). However, I was disappointed by the weak script, the superficiality of the characters and the drastic changes of the original film. You may accuse me of being old fashioned, but overcoming a classic lately has been an impossible mission. Another example is the classic Total Recall, also by Verhoeven.

I'm watching "Robocop", witch is not Robocop for the second time. Just to see if it is really as bad as I recall it, watching it the first time.And I still don't like it.Despite better effects and a more robot-like Robocop, the original still prevails.Here is why.First of all Joel Kinnaman is no Peter Weller. In the original, despite only 15 minutes or so as a human, Weller created a very likable Alex Murphy. Kinnaman can't create a likable Murphy. He comes off too much like a tough guy and a smart-ass. Murphys death in the real Robocop movie is to the date still a very hard scene to watch. And the evil sadistic Clarence Boddicker (brilliantly played by Kurtwood Smith) and his ditto gang are to this date still awesome bad-guys. And when Robocop remembers its an absolute delight to watch him kill every member of the gang one by one.In this "Robocop" movie Murphy is almost killed by a car-bomb. A pg13 death that don't hold the impact from the brutal R-rated slaying in the original movie. And I still don't like the new Murphy, nor do I care what happens to him either. That is a clear sign that the movie isn't working at all.And of course because "Robocop" is PG13, there is no blood whenever someone dies, no Boddicker, no Dick Jones (awesome Ronny Cox) no Bob Morton(awesome Miguel Ferrer) or any other bad-guys, just a Fallon whats his face and a Dennet Norton (Bob Morton get it?) "Robocop" has no drive or motivation to go on living as a machine. In the real Robocop movie he had revenge that pushed him forward. The CGI version of ED-209 that, like OCP has a different name, moves exactly like the much more menacing stop-motion-robot in the original. So what's the point? Much like the rest of the movie.They spend a lot of time letting "Robocop" go through the motions with his new robot-body and showing how he is made. And running simulation programs where he fights other robots. Again probably the rating. Had it been rated R, he would have been send out on the streets right away killing bad-guys, because that's what the real Robocop does.And what's with all that crap with his wife and son? Who cares? Like he could ever have a life with them again after his transformation. In the real Robocop movie they wiped his memory and he barely remembered them and that worked really well. There was not a single scene with Murphy together with his wife and son. And yet we felt Robocops pain (now that is good acting from Peter Weller) Seeing the new "Robocop" cry as he talks to his wife on a Skype like connection made me wanna puke.And all the satire and humor of the real Robocop movie is gone here. Instead we have a movie that takes it self way too seriously and the action-scenes feels like they were shot and directed by a teenager.Avoid this crap. Even if you've never seen the real Robocop movie from 1987 and you were born later and it seems outdated I guarantee that you will still prefer that to this crap.