Today I am ashamed to admit I saw “RoboCop,” the 2014 model with all the fancy upgrades. Not to be confused with Paul Verhoeven’s “Robocop” from 1987 that came out at the same time as Windows 2.0 and worked just about as well.
In this reboot, we find Officer Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman from “Safe House”) trying to get illegal guns off the street of his beloved Detroit. He is shocked to find some corrupt cops right in his own department. I could make a reference to Bogart and “Casablanca” here, but only my daughters would get it.
In 2028, the setting for this futuristic farce, OmniCorp has developed incredible robot cops that are deployed all over the world, keeping law and order. However, they are forbidden for use in the United States, until the evil corporate giant can put a better “face” on it – Alex’s face.
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