Part Man. Part Machine... All Cop.
RoboCop
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith, Ronny Cox
Released: 1987
Production: Orion Pictures
At a first glance you could easily mistake the early concept poster to represent a tacky, straight to video science fiction B-movie, but this assumption would be wrong! If you take a closer look you will find that RoboCop is in fact one of the cult classic movies of the 80's.
This satiracal gem depicts an incredibly bleak vision of a violent and corrupt future in Detroit where anarchic, sadistic gangs work alongside corporate figureheads employed by Omni Consumer Products to monopolise ownership of the city and the local Police precincts.
This satiracal gem depicts an incredibly bleak vision of a violent and corrupt future in Detroit where anarchic, sadistic gangs work alongside corporate figureheads employed by Omni Consumer Products to monopolise ownership of the city and the local Police precincts.
Enter Alex Murphy (Peter Weller). His first day at Metro Crime Department, he's an all round American family man with an optimistic outlook to his work and life in general. A genuine crusader adding stylistic flourishes to his Cop persona in wanting to be an important role model to his young boy. Mentioning his first day on the job being tough would be a massive understatement as he and his partner Officer Lewis (Nancy Allen) are soon on assignment chasing down a gang of bank robbers to a deserted steel mill, while Lewis is taken out of the picture briefly, Murphy is introduced to the gang led by Clarence Boddicker - has there ever been a better name for a gangleader? (Kurtwood Smith) he is held at gunpoint, subjected to their taunts and finally brutally maimed by the syndicate of Cop killers. Before he can be pronounced dead, OCP are quickly on the scene to provide Murphy with his corporate medical care by way of resurrecting him into a state-of-the-art cyborg chasis.
