You probably notice that usually my review columns are called Justin Fixes ____. There is nothing to fix in this movie. Ladies and gentlemen, my ode to the Sci-Fi Action masterpiece, Paul Verhoeven's Robocop.
-The special effects, especially the GORE in this movie is great. The shooting, Clarence's stabbing, the ED-209's mistake. All wonderfully organic and over the top.
-The best set up for a bad guy ever combined with the best death scene in a movie.
-Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker is the ultimate bad guy. He plays it just right, you get the feeling that this guy is cool, calculating, and bad ass. It almost makes you ignore his future role as Red Foreman.
-The mix of Sci-Fi, action, and satire has yet to be duplicated, even by Verhoeven himself. We're presented a fully thought out world without the useless exposition.
-The one liners don't succumb to the cringe worthy lines brought on later in the decade by the likes of Batman.
-Peter Weller is great here given the difficult material. Given how little we know of him by the time we get to his death, we are still feeling for him. Also well played is the regression into a blank slate and subsequent slide back to his human persona.
-Twin Peaks' Ray Wise as a henchman!
-Toxic Waste guy!
-Tying in the OCP plot to our main story was done pretty masterfully, and even relatively early on.
Whats bad about this movie?>
-The only legitimate way to score this in it's unrated form is through buying the Robocop box set..and that means you have to own parts two and three..or you could pay for the Criterion version on eBay.
-You probably haven't seen this in a long time.
One of my favorite movies of all time, and what I consider to be the reference point for action movies..hold your breath folks and buy this for a dollar. 10/10
2 comments:
dont forget the great role of corporate bad guy played wonderfully by ronny cox...who also played a similar role in Total recall.
no one plays the corporate bad guy like Sir Ronnie Cox.
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