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Format: VHS
Aug 1993
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: Stereo, HiFi
Closed Captioned
103 min.
UPC: 023568086101 |
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Movie Description
Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive (Miguel Ferrer) at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel limbs and rewires his brain with computer chips so he will have no will of his own. Murphy's former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry blocks whatever dim memories remain. Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop, causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the top of OCP. This second English-language film by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is unremittingly brutal, darkly comic, and filled with bits of clever satire and pathos. A special highlight is the hilariously incompetent ED-209, RoboCop's main rival in the department of automated law enforcement. Considered by many critics to be one of the best films of its genre, ROBOCOP was followed by several sequels and a 1994 TV series.
Synopsis
Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP is an ultraviolent but extremely clever sci-fi action film set in a burnt-out, crime-infested Detroit of the future. When a cop is almost killed in the line of duty, the corrupt corporation that runs the police department decides to use his near-dead body as the basis for a specially constructed cyborg--the first in what they intend to be a line of highly efficient, crime-fighting machines. But the corporate execs didn't take into account the vestiges of human nature still lurking beneath all that state-of-the-art hardware. It turns out RoboCop has a mind of his own and sets out to take bloody revenge on the vicious gang members who tried to kill him.
Film Notes
Produced by Tobor Pictures.
The film was originally rated X; prior to release it was recut and re-rated R.
Filmed in Dallas, Texas; Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in DeLuxe color.
Began shooting August 6, 1986
Released theatrically in the USA July 17, 1987.
Released on video January 28, 1988.
Additional credits: ED-209 sequences designed and created by Phil Tippett (who won an Oscar for his special effects on "Return of the Jedi"), Craig Davies and Peter Ronzani, Visual Concept Engineering (photographic and optical effects), Rocco Gioffre (matte paintings), and Praxis Film Works (optical supervision).
Shown at the 1987 London Film Festival in November. It won a best director award at the Sitges Film Festival and a special award for excellence at the 16th Fantasy Film Festival at Avoriaz.
Film spawned two sequels, "RoboCop 2" and "RoboCop 3" (neither directed by Verhoeven), and a short-lived TV series.
Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Criterion Collection laserdisc includes excessively violent shots, cut from the theatrical release to avoid an X rating and stereo audio commentary with director Paul Verhoeven, co-writer Ed Neumeier, producer Jon Davison, and Paul Sammon.
Industry Reviews
"...ROBOCOP is a shrewdly enjoyable movie..."
Sight and Sound - p.66-7 - Sean French
"...Chilling, at times hilarious..." - Recommended
Premiere - p.136 - Josh Rottenberg
"...Gut-level humor and technical wizardry....Robocop himself is a fascinating character..."
Variety - Brit.
"...This movie has a motor humming inside. It's been assembled with ferocious, gleeful expertise, crammed with humor, cynicism and jolts of energy..."
Los Angeles Times - p.C1 - Michael Wilmington
"This sicko futuristic satire of corporate Detroit is the movie that got director Paul Verhoeven out of Holland and ultimately into even beefier Hollywood megahits like TOTAL RECALL and BASIC INSTINCT..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (06/02/1995)
"Paul Verhoeven's finest film isn't quite science-fact, but its corporation-driven, fat-cat future is our reality."
Total Film - Daniel Webb (04/01/2004)
"Weller is excellent, giving his metal man a very human heart....ROBOCOP turned out to be an extremely smart film." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly - Clark Collis (08/24/2007)
3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t remains a fearlessly over the top, endlessly enjoyable action flick."
Ultimate DVD - Nikki Baughan (11/23/2007)
Quotations
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"--Phrase from a popular future gameshow
"Dead or alive, you're coming with me."--RoboCop (Peter Weller) to a thug
"It's just a glitch."--OCP executive Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) to his superior (Dan O'Herlihy) after Jones's ED-209 robotic crimefighter prototype blows away a young employee during a botched product demonstration
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