Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy

In the not-too-distant-future, a newly transfered Detroit police officer is remade into an indestructable cybernetic cop after being dismembered by a gang of thugs in an abandoned warehouse. Reborn as...( read more  read more... ) Robocop he is programed to serve and protect the citizens of Detroit and eliminate the rampant crime in the city streets so that a massive city-wide reconstruction project can get underway. But once he has completed his task, he sets his sites on the corruption inside Securities Concepts Inc. - the corporation that created him.

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R, 1 hr. 43 min.

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven

Release Date: July 17, 1987

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DVD Release Date: October 2, 2001

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  • September 24, 2009
    'I'd buy that for a dollar'!
    Classic!
  • May 27, 2009
    Gangs and criminal masterminds are generally unafraid of the cops, especially in the movies. They can either buy them out, kill them, or have someone else take the fall when the cops close in. So what happens in a future where anyone who commits a crime has no fear of the polic...( read more)e force. Why, they're only human. RoboCop brings up another scenario. What if the police force could not be killed? Could not be reasoned with? And what of the people programming them? Can we trust that they are not as corrupt or greedy as the criminals they seek to eradicate? RoboCop reflects on these questions, but only so much as they don't get in the way of the action. And what an action picture this is. It's excessively, excessively violent, but in a strangely comedic way. Peter Weller is quite a gifted actor, as he's able to make us sympathize with a machine that for the most part, doesn't seem at all like a human being. The effects are a bit dated, only because we've become spoiled with CGI that moves too fast for us to realize we are watching CGI. A great action picture, nonetheless!
  • May 22, 2009
    Brutal and truely rockhard, the action in this is sooo violent but its just sooo good, the best action sci-fi flick made. Verhoeven is the over the top gore action master with plenty of dark humour.
    Still looks gorgeous today, epic :)
  • April 8, 2009
    "Part man. Part machine. All cop. The future of law enforcement."

    In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.

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    For all its almost cartoonish violence and grim theme, RoboCop is an extraordinarily prescient satire of the levels to which society can, and in some cases already has, degenerated. From runaway corporate greed to preposterous three-shift-class cocaine processing plants, RoboCop only missed becoming a seminal warning piece because far too many people were satisfied with it as merely an action film. Nonetheless, repeat viewings only strengthen this film, and make its sequels that much more tragically bad.
  • March 6, 2009
    Interesting look at 80's style TV news coverage and advertisements trying to be near future news and ads. Good effects when it comes to Robocop, bad effects with the other evil security robot. Spurting blood, a man instantly mutated by toxic ooze, lots of fire arms raking acros...( read more)s a warehouse and not killing most of the henchmen, and futuristic hand-held cannons - so many classic sci-fi action cliches. When Robocop takes his helmet off I was surprised to realize how much of a homage to Darth Vader it was.
  • November 7, 2009
    Best film for its time
  • November 4, 2009
    Clasico de churritos... hay que verla.
  • October 22, 2009
    Awesome movei from the 80's
  • October 20, 2009
    Loved every second of this unconventional sci-fi cop thriller that delivers a solid plot with a few well placed twists, slick violence, and superb acting throughout!
  • September 29, 2009
    Too violent, but it was OK.

Critic Reviews


January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Most thriller and special-effects movies come right off the assembly line...RoboCop is a thriller with a difference. full review

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  • hankhuynh4ever
    May 14, 2009
    One of my favourite all time movie.
  • itbegins2005
    March 18, 2008
    You know what's great about the first RoboCop movie?

    NO FRANK MILLER.

    Frank Miller + movies - Robert Rodriguez = CRAP.
  • SkywalkerJones
    February 2, 2008
    20 years and still kicks ass.
  • SkywalkerJones
    August 13, 2007
    Dead or Alive,you re coming with me.
  • icemanacejman
    June 30, 2007
    1987 peter weller and paul mccrane do this movie 2005 they're back together again for 24 all i havee to say is wow
  • shazdavidtennantmadnumber1fan
    February 24, 2007
    it a cool film
  • LandoMcFly
    June 12, 2006
    A brilliant example of 80s action movies. The men are men, the women are topless and the guns never need reloading. The action movies of today need to grow some balls.

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