SnakeSVT2003 wrote:
Just saw the Robocop remake. It's ok, and I liked Joel Kinnaman as Alex Murphy, but I just couldn't help but wonder what this movie could've been if they had gone for an R rating, which the original had (after many edits to get rid of the initial X rating it received!), instead of PG-13.
For example, Alex Murphy gets wounded. In the remake, he's hurt by a car bomb. In the original, he's blasted apart by psychopaths with shotguns, who at one point start playing games while shooting him!
Another gripe is how the ending battle is EXTREMELY underwhelming, and how I think the director missed a trick here. Earlier in the film, Robocop is training in a giant warehouse loaded with robots and the military expert in charge of them, who is equipped with a .50 caliber assault rifle, the only caliber that can penetrate Robocop's armor. The whole exercise is Robocop dealing with the robots while avoiding getting shot by the expert, whose negative attitude towards the cyborg project, and thus Robocop, let's you know that there will be a point later in the film where Robocop and this guy fight. They do eventually meet with the intent to fight, when Robocop goes after the Omnicorp CEO in their headquarters. The expert is there and, of course, Robocop can't shoot him because of the Omnicorp programming. Robocop just tries to run away, and the expert eventually gets shot from behind by Alex Murphy's former partner. Needless to say, that is a TOTAL letdown.
Right before that, however, was a battle between Robocop and three huge ED-209 drones. It was nicely done but it lacked something. That something IMO was the military expert. It would've been better to have Robocop fight the 3 drones while avoiding being shot by the expert and his .50 cal assault rifle, just like the training session from earlier in the film, and have one huge fight than to have one pretty good fight and one really pointless fight.
There were things I loved about the movie as well, such as the news segments with Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman as the naive scientist, and how the filmmakers adjusted the plot to account for how outdated the concept of a cyborg is in the era of drones, but this movie could have been a lot more.
Hopefully the next one is rated R. At the moment, the two worst films of the Robocop franchises are the two that were not rated R (the other being Robocop 3).
I found it so funny; he goes to his little kid, knees in front of him and says: "do you want to touch it?"...
Hmmmmmm...
I didn't like it as much as the original. I need to watch it again I suppose. But the first couple of Robocop movies were far better in my opinion