Robocop (1987)
There's a new law enforcer in town…and he's half man, half machine! From the director of "Total Recall" comes a "sci-fi fantasy with sleek, high-powered drive" (Time) about an indestructible high-tech policeman who dishes out justice…
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About the Movie
In a bankrupt, crime-drowned future Detroit, the corporation Omni Consumer Products runs the police — and sees an opportunity in its failures. When officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is sadistically murdered by Clarence Boddicker’s gang on his first patrol with his new partner, OCP takes his remains and rebuilds him as RoboCop: a cyborg law-enforcement product, armored, tireless, and programmed with three public directives — and a fourth, classified one.
RoboCop cleans up the city so effectively that he becomes a public sensation. But fragments of Murphy keep surfacing: dreams of a family, a house he no longer lives in, the faces of his killers. As he begins investigating his own murder, he uncovers the link between Boddicker and the OCP executive who built him — and runs into the wall of Directive 4, which forbids him from acting against the company that owns him.
Why This Movie Matters to Sci-Fi
RoboCop is the sharpest corporate satire ever smuggled inside an action movie. Paul Verhoeven used an ultraviolent cyborg story to dissect privatization, media saturation, and corporate personhood in 1987 — its fake news breaks and commercials remain painfully accurate — while still delivering a genuinely moving story about a man reclaiming his identity from the machine built over his corpse. Weller’s physical performance, Rob Bottin’s effects, and the film’s ED-209 boardroom disaster made it an instant classic; its questions about who owns a modified human body have only grown more serious since.
Where to Watch
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