With a fourth movie due to come out in 2014 it seems like a good moment to visit the first Robocop movie which sees a cop called Murphy put into a robot outfit. It's basically a revenge movie because the moment that Murphy gets put into the outfit it slowly leads Robocop to the man that ultimatley put him into that position.
The film does scream 80's which most films from this decade usually do. The technology is probably the biggest eyesore in the movie but part of me cant help but get nostalgic about when this sort of this probably wasnt the most important thing to them. The film moves along at a rather good pace and I cant deny that the film moves along quite well and it had a rather good conclusion. The problem that I had with it was that the character of Robocop is rather weak. Ok it has some impressive scenes but it gets beat quickly and in the last act of the movie he takes of his helmet. It's the Sylvester Stallone/Judge Dredd situation all over again except this time it wasnt such a big thing. When I was asked if I want to watch the next two Robocop movies, i intially said no but as time has passed I think that it might be good because they should be better than this one (though I know the third is meant to be rubbish).
Robocop is good for its era but there are things that could have been improved even back in 1987.
7/10
The film does scream 80's which most films from this decade usually do. The technology is probably the biggest eyesore in the movie but part of me cant help but get nostalgic about when this sort of this probably wasnt the most important thing to them. The film moves along at a rather good pace and I cant deny that the film moves along quite well and it had a rather good conclusion. The problem that I had with it was that the character of Robocop is rather weak. Ok it has some impressive scenes but it gets beat quickly and in the last act of the movie he takes of his helmet. It's the Sylvester Stallone/Judge Dredd situation all over again except this time it wasnt such a big thing. When I was asked if I want to watch the next two Robocop movies, i intially said no but as time has passed I think that it might be good because they should be better than this one (though I know the third is meant to be rubbish).
Robocop is good for its era but there are things that could have been improved even back in 1987.
7/10
