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Stars:
Peter Weller,
Nancy Allen,
Ronny Cox,
Dan O'Herlihy,
Miguel Ferrer,
Kurtwood Smith
Director:
Paul Verhoeven
Summary: Set in Old Detroit in the very near future, the story follows Murphy, a tough cop who is used as target practice by a gang of lunatics. The police force's controlling body decide to rebuild Murphy into a Cyborg, part man, part machine, and dedicated to law enforcement.
Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive (Miguel Ferrer) at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel limbs and rewires his brain with computer chips so he will have no will of his own. Murphy's former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry blocks whatever dim memories remain. Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop, causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the top of OCP. This second English-language film by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is unremittingly brutal, darkly comic, and filled with bits of clever satire and pathos. A special highlight is the hilariously incompetent ED-209, RoboCop's main rival in the department of automated law enforcement. Considered by many critics to be one of the best films of its genre, ROBOCOP was followed by several sequels and a 1994 TV series.