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.
1 August 1957, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
11 September 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 March 1949, USA
14 November 1952, Pratt, Kansas, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
4 August 1955, Orleans, France
15 April 1954, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
May 1, 1974 in Dallas, Texas, USA
24 June 1950, New York City, New York, USA
26 March 1957, Hartsville, South Carolina, USA
7 February 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
15 January 1945, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
19 January 1961, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 April 1955, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
24 November 1963, Portland, Oregon, USA
25 August 1962, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
30 September 1970, Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia
29 October 1957
20 April 1934, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
31 January 1927, Dallas, Texas, USA
February 11, 2014
The story amounts to a celebration of brute force in a crudely etched law-and-order context.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
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.April 21, 2014
Paul Verhoeven on blockbuster explosions like Douglas Sirk on lachrymose householdsFebruary 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
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 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?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
Paul Verhoeven's glorious sci-fi satire combines searing social comedy with some of the most graphic ultra-violence ever to grace legitimate cinema.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.