In the near-future, a mega-corporation has contracted with the city of Detroit to provide an alternative to the police force. But the main prototype, ED-209, still has some bugs to work out. Fortunately, executive Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer) has a back-up. His project takes an existing human body and combines it with machine for the best of both. Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is volunteered for the procedure after being gunned down by a gang of criminals led by Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith). Morton's team insists that all that's left is a brain running pre-programmed software, but it turns out androids dream of electric vengeance.
Sad to say that RoboCop was the closest predictor of our actual future. In that sense, it's aged like fine wine. Everything else is pretty dated, though. Weller is the least main Main Character in a movie. He has a lot of screen time but is literally robotic. It's hard to root for him when he gets introduced, murdered, and then put in a tin can like five minutes in. The Omni Consumer Products executives have more of an inner life, even if it's a soulless 80s yuppie one.
A lot of people love this movie and it's considered a classic. I thought it was okay but I wouldn't rush out to find the sequels. It's currently streaming on (sigh) Max along with the 2014 remake that I also haven't seen.
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