Synopsis
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Peter WellerOfficer Alex J. Murphy / RoboCop
- Nancy AllenOfficer Anne Lewis
- Dan O'HerlihyThe Old Man
- Ronny CoxDick Jones
- Kurtwood SmithClarence Boddicker
- Miguel FerrerBob Morton
- Robert DoQuiSgt. Warren Reed
- Ray WiseLeon Nash
- Felton PerryJohnson
- Paul McCraneEmil Antonowsky
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
Robocop is as tightly worked as a film can be, not a moment or line wasted. - 88
TV Guide Magazine
A first-rate production full of nonstop action and inventive special effects but what truly makes Robocop spellbinding is a superior script. - 80
Empire
It was this love of mayhem combined with a biting comic attack on neo-fascist corporatism - most notably seen in the TV ads for products like the apocalyptic board game Nuke 'Em - which helped raise Robocop above the common sci-fi herd. - 80
Washington Post
Robocop is one weird and entertaining hybrid of camp and sci-fi shoot-'em-up. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Robocop is a thriller with a difference. - 70
The New York Times
Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch director ("Soldier of Orange"), doesn't let the furiously futuristic plot get in the way of the flaming explosions, shattering glass and hurtling bodies. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Great effects and a nasty undercurrent drive this vehicle. - 63
Christian Science Monitor
The action is skillfully directed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, and there are many bursts of razor-sharp social satire. But the story amounts to a celebration of brute force in a crudely etched law-and-order context.
