Rent RoboCop (1987)
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1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
- When a good cop (Peter Weller) gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "RoboCop". Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, RoboCop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new hardened exterior, RoboCop is tormented by scraps of memories of his former life, and relives vivid nightmares of his own death at the hands of the vicious killers. Now he is out to seek more than justice...he wants revenge!
- Actors:
- Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Robert Do'Qui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry, Paul McCrane, Jesse D. Goins, Del Zamora, Calvin Jung, Rick Lieberman, Lee de Broux, Mark Carlton, Edward Edwards, Michael Gregory, Freddie Hice, Neil Summers
- Directors:
- Paul Verhoeven
- Producers:
- Arne Schmidt
- Voiced By:
- Jon Davison
- Writers:
- Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
- Others:
- Phil Tippett, Peter Kuran, Rob Bottin, Rocco Gioffre, Carla Palmer, Michael J Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Frank J. Urioste, Carlos de Larios, Robert Wald
- Aka:
- Robocop: The Future of Law Enforcement
- Studio:
- MGM
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, The Best Cyberpunk Films, The Best Robots, Cyborgs and Androids Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/12/2007
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian DTS 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- High Definition Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/03/2022
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Atmos, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 4.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by director Paul Verhoeven, executive producer Jon Davison and co-writer Ed Neumeier (originally recorded for the Theatrical Cut and re-edited in 2014 for the Director's Cut)
- Commentary by film historian Paul M. Sammon
- Commentary by fans Christopher Griffiths, Gary Smart and Eastwood Allen
- The Future of Law Enforcement: Creating RoboCop, an interview with co-writer Michael Miner
- RoboTalk, a conversation between co-writer Ed Neumeier and filmmakers David Birke (writer of Elie) and Nicholas McCarthy (director of Orion Pictures' The Prodigy)
- Truth of Character, an interview with star Nancy Allen on her role as Lewis
- Casting Old Detroit, an interview with casting director Julie Selzer on how the film's ensemble cast was assembled
- Connecting the Shots, an interview with second unit director and frequent Verhoeven collaborator Mark Goldblatt
- Analog, a featurette focusing on the special photographic effects, including new interviews with Peter Kuran and Kevin Kutchaver
- More Man Than Machine: Composing RoboCop, a tribute to composer Basil Poledouris featuring film music experts Jeff Bond, Lukas Kendall, Daniel Schweiger and Robert Townson
- RoboProps, a tour of super-fan Julien Dumont's collection of original props and memorabilia
- 2012 Q&A with the Filmmakers, a panel discussion featuring Verhoeven, Davison, Neumeier, Miner, Allen, star Peter Weller and animator Phil Tippett
- RoboCop: Creating A Legend, Villains of Old Detroit, Special Effects: Then and Now, three archive featurettes from 2007 featuring interviews with cast and crew
- Paul Verhoeven Easter Egg
- Four deleted scenes
- The Boardroom: Storyboard with Commentary by Phil Tippett
- Director's Cut Production Footage, raw dailies from the filming of the unrated gore scenes, presented in 4K (SDR)
- Two theatrical trailers and three TV spots
- Extensive image galleries
- Commentary by director Paul Verhoeven, executive producer Jon Davison and co-writer Ed Neumeier (originally recorded for Theatrical version of the film)
- Two Isolated Score tracks (Composer's Original Score and Final Theatrical Mix)
- Edited-for-television version of the film, featuring alternate dubs, takes and edits of several scenes (95 mins, SD only)
- Split screen comparisons between the Director's Cut and Theatrical Cut, and the Theatrical Cut and edited-for-TV version
- RoboCop: Edited for Television, a compilation of alternate scenes from two edited-for-television versions, including outtakes transferred in HD from recently-unearthed 35mm elements
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following:
- Director's Cut
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following:
- Theatrical Cut
- Special Features
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Reviews (2) of RoboCop
Acceptable in the eighties. - RoboCop review by DC
I thought that this was such a great film when it came out, but that was nearly forty years ago, and I was clearly a different person back then. I watched it in 2024 for the first time in decades, and the longer it went on, the less I cared about what happened. People got shot, some of them had it coming, stuff blew up, yeah, whatever.
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Influential, Ahead of It's Time, and Still Fantastic - RoboCop review by GI
Director Paul Verhoeven's dark, comical sci-fi film remains a real treat, it's a very sharply observed satire on corporate America and well ahead of its time. Thematically it foresees the obsession with technology and materialism and condemns capitalist consumerism observing the decline of morality and basic human goodness. Set in the near future and crime has overrun 'Old Detroit'. The dominant corporation that controls almost everything is OCP who have taken over management of the police. Murders of officers is on the rise and they are threatening to strike, which will damage OCP's plans to build a new modern city. The company Vice President Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) has plans to introduce robots to replace the police but unfortunately they keep malfunctioning. His rival Bob (Miguel Ferrer) sets into operation an alternative, his cyborg Robocop program. All he needs is a suitable cop to get murdered in order to get a suitable subject for his creation. Officer Murphy (Paul Weller) is viciously murdered on duty and his body is turned over for transition into a cyborg. But Bob's plans soon go awry as his creation has retained some human emotions and Jones is out for revenge for having his own plans upset. What most people will remember about this film is the graphic violence and in the 'Director's Cut' it is even more gratuitous. But Verhoeven was clever here because the cuts that were made to the film rendered the violence shocking whereas his exaggerated violence becomes darkly comic and satirical which is the intention of the film. Quentin Tarantino, for example, has since grasped this concept extremely well. In any event there are some highly memorable scenes especially the infamous murder of Murphy and when one of the bad guys falls into a vat of toxic waste. A hugely clever film and a very influential one. A film to definitely rewatch and certainly to check out if you've never seen it. (Please ignore the pointless 2014 remake it missed the whole point by miles!)
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