Robocop’s reboot is exhilarating and tense! The premise is about good cop and father Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), who is on the brink of a drugs bust and bringing corrupt police to justice, until he is involved in a fatal car bomb accident. Meanwhile, global company OmniCorp are building and testing robots to prevent terrorist attacks and reduce crime on the streets. However, the company can’t sell these robots to America as a bill needs to be past to allow them on the streets, the people say it’s because robots are missing human empathy. Therefore, OmniCorp begin a search to find paralysed ex policemen to rebuild their body to be half man, half machine. Can you see where this is going?
It follows that, OmniCorp enlist Murphy as their Robocop to convince the American people that they are good for the country and to reduce crime rates so that the bill can be past and they can put their big robots on the streets as first intended. Later, Murphy goes rouge and tries to solve his own death and uncovers corruption in the police, but before he can bring them to justice OmniCorp shut him down. The bill gets past and OmniCorp win, they try to kill Murphy but Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman) who built him, helps free him and get his life back whilst taking OmniCorp down too Robocop calls to question ‘free will’, who is controlling us or are we free? This film also highlights how big companies can take advantage of some people and their families to reap the benefit. This remake is action packed, featuring fast swift camera shots following Robocop as he surveys the city on his motorbike. I think the training part of the film could have been made more of as I liked that scene the most, but the visual effects were great and worth a watch!
Robocop has some great action scenes, but the point where Murphy starts to go rouge and override the system, I felt this could have been played better or longer, it just seemed to go from 0-100 real quick, without any real explanation or feeling. Gary Oldman's performance is brilliant, although I kept think Murphy was batman and Oldman was police dressed in a lab coat! It is not a bad reboot, as reboot's go, so if you looking for a watch, which has action, a story you don't have to follow to hard and interesting visual effects of a man’s floating body, this is the film for you!
Available on Netflix now.
Comments