RoboCop

"Crime has a new enemy."

2014 1h 58m EN

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In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

“Crime has a new enemy.”

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Cast

Joel Kinnaman
Alex Murphy / RoboCop
Gary Oldman
Dr. Dennett Norton
Michael Keaton
Raymond Sellars
Abbie Cornish
Clara Murphy
Jackie Earle Haley
Rick Mattox
Michael Kenneth Williams
Jack Lewis
Jennifer Ehle
Liz Kline
Jay Baruchel
Tom Pope

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: José Padilha
Writers: Rob McCallum, Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$120M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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3 / 8

CAST

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378+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by José Padilha, shot by Lula Carvalho. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Pedro Bromfman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Peter McNulty shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

ERA

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Joel Kinnaman and Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Crime has a new enemy.".

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The take

José Padilha directs. Lula Carvalho behind the camera. Pedro Bromfman scores. Peter McNulty cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1$120M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 12 years ago.
3378+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by José Padilha, shot by Lula Carvalho. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Pedro Bromfman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Peter McNulty shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Joel Kinnaman and Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Crime has a new enemy.".
9IMDB entry: tt1234721 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Lula Carvalho
Original score: Pedro Bromfman
Editing: Peter McNulty
Production design: Martin Whist
Costume design: April Ferry
Makeup / hair: Carol Hartwick
VFX supervisor: James E. Price
Sound: Peter Staubli
Stunt coordinator: George Marshall Ruge
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $120,000,000
Box office: $242,688,965
Return: 202% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: RoboCop (2014)

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Dark Jedi2014-06-08
★ 6/10
I must confess that, when I sat down to watch this movie, I was prepared to be disappointed. Well, it was not as bad as I feared but I was not really impressed either. There are some good parts in the movie and, of course, the special effects are more up to todays standards. However it lacks a lot of the appeal, the over the top gory violence and the cartoonish wow-factor that the original has. I guess it is because they wanted that silly PG-13 rating in the hope of raking in more cash. It is not the first time Hollywood greed have ruined a good movie unfortunately. The beginning of the movie is not bad. Taking out Murphy with a simple car bomb was rather disappointing though. Again here the movie lacks the gritty and brutal aspect that the original had. The parts where Murphy is awaken in the secret(?) research and manufacturing facility and him freaking out when discovering what he as become was enjoyable. Then it really starts to go downhill in what I usually refer to stupid Hollywood scripting. Ten minutes before Robocop is about to make his public debut then they do a huge info dump into his brain? That is just so poor unintelligent scripting. Of course it went to hell. The special effects are quite okay but again the scripting is just nonsense. Most of the time this highly intelligent combat cyborg is just rushing straight into the fire blasting away like some Terminator/Rambo wannabe. Sure it makes for some good firefights but it is still poor scripting. Then the ending. What was that? I do not refer to the actual ending where Murphy, luckily, prevails but the part after that with the TV-presenter (or whatever he was in the end) rambling on about traitors etc. That was just there to show the audience that they hoped to do a sequel but the nonsensical outburst did not really much sense. Actually I thought that those TV-presenter scenes where generally just a nuisance. On the whole it is not really a bad movie but it is sorely lacking the appeal of the original. Too a large extent this is due to it being reduced to a teenage no-rude-language-please type of movie lacking the dark and gory aspect of the original. The poor script doesn’t help of course. I am not sorry that I spent time watching it but the feeling afterwards where a bit…meh.
Andres Gomez2014-10-11
★ 4/10
Decent remake with well done FX and with quite an impressive cast that keeps a proper level... but flat. No only it doesn't contribute anything new to the prior movie but also lacks on humor and deeper psychological insight.