Paul Verhoeven, 1987
| THE CAST OF ROBOCOP | ||
 OFFICER MURPHY Peter Weller |
 ANNE LEWIS Nancy Allen |
 CLARENCE BODDICKER Kurtwood Smith |
 DICK JONES Ronny Cox (I) |
 BOB MORTON Miguel Ferrer |
 O.C.P. CEO Dan O'Herlihy |
A first-rate production full of nonstop action and inventive special effects but what truly makes ROBOCOP spellbinding is a superior script. Intelligent and satirical, it has the quality of cutting-edge British comic books such as the "Judge Dredd" series. Kudos to the screenwriting team of Michael Miner and Edward Neumeir.
It's
the not-too-distant future in crime-ridden Old Detroit. A
corporate conglomerate is running the city and, under the
direction of Richard Jones (Ronny Cox), has developed a huge
metal android to combat rampant street crime. When this
creation demonstrates a murderous "glitch," Robert Morton
(Miguel Ferrer) sees an opportunity to advance his company
position by building a better cop machine. He gets his
chance when cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is brutally
killed by a gang of sadistic hoodlums. Murphy's body is
reconstructed by technicians and dubbed RoboCop. It proves
to be more than effective against street criminals thereby
elevating Morton to top corporate management.
This motivates
the scheming Jones to make a pact with supervillain
Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) to destroy RoboCop. Though
extremely violent, ROBOCOP showcases an invigorating style
even in its goriest scenes. Paul Verhoevan makes every scene
sparkle with tilted angles, oddball twists, and
special-effects wonders. ROBOCOP effectively conveys a
combination of reality and fantasy in a hard-boiled world of
humane robots and unfeeling humans.
This is the first crime that here enters in on!
We at Robo C find this really moving, don't you?
GO ROBO! GO ROBO! GO ROBO!
The alternate version of RoboCop is the Criterion Laserdisc version which has gorier scenes than the R-rated VHS tape. The cut scenes are as follows...
1.The scene where ED-209 shoots the executive in the beggining is extended, the man falls and ED keeps firing and blood flies everywhere and after he is done shooting, the camera pans over the dead body.
2.Murphy's death is extended also...after clarence blows his hand of we see him stand in pain and then his goons start firing shotguns on murphy...we see his right arm get completly blown off his body, a scene completly cut from the VHS version.
3.When clarence shoots murphy in the head,they show a new angle to it which is right behind murphy and we see the back of his head basically blow off into the camera.
4.they show a view from the inside of the car when clarence run through emil and his body gets smashed
5.and finally they show more gore in the scene where robocop shoves the pike into clarences neck at the end.
