Don't worry, it's not that rinky-dink, watered down PG-13 remake either. This is that memorable, balls-to-the-wall, violent, hard-R film that kicks your ass into your throat, reaches down and pulls your ass out of your mouth, and then kicks it up your own ass again...
...okay, I don't really know where I was going with that, but let me just say that RoboCop is yet another quality chunk of 1980's pop culture that makes it into my top thirty. Peter Weller plays Alex Murphy, a police officer who transfers into a crime-ridden precinct of "old Detroit". There, he's partnered up with Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) for a grand total of ten minutes before he's obliterated by shotgun fire. The "origin story" for RoboCop isn't one for the faint-of-heart. He's literally mutilated beyond repair by shotgun fire and then rebuilt into a crime-busting cyborg for the city from Hell.
The leader of the gang of baddies is Kurtwood Smith, known to everyone as that one guy from the 70's who really likes putting feet in people's asses. Only now, he's playing a sadistic cop-murderer with a pension for just not giving a shit about anything. RoboCop soon starts to remember who he is and, one-by-one, injures and captures Clarence's gang before capturing him at a cocaine factory shootout. Clarence has some of the coolest lines in the movie, including spitting blood on the booking papers and saying "Just give me my fucking phone call."
Along with Clarence and RoboCop, there's a side-plot. Miguel Ferrera plays Bob Morton, an up-and-coming executive with OCP who's the brains behind the RoboCop program. It's the RoboCop program that OCP goes with in lieu of the ED-209 crime-fighting robot, courtesy of Dick Jones (Ronny Cox). Dick Jones is the financier of the warforce to tear Detroit apart and...
Look, I'm gonna end up ruining something major. Just know the action's awesome, the violence-and-gore are there in spades, and it's a hard-R film that was sold to kids, as were most adult films back in the day. It's brooding, it's got a very comic book feel to it, and it's one of those 1980's iconic pop culture movies that everyone should see at least once. Even the religious. I love it, and I recommend it. Ladies, it's one of those perfect date films...at least in a perfect world, it would be.
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