Robocop 2014 Official

The 2014 film dedicates its best sequences to the horror of consciousness. After the bombing that destroys his body, OmniCorp shows Murphy his remaining parts: a brain, a heart, a pair of lungs floating in a jar. Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman), the guilt-ridden architect of the program, allows Murphy to feel his synthetic skin, smell his wife’s hair, and even touch her face with a prosthetic hand.

But a decade later, José Padilha’s RoboCop (2014) deserves a second look. It failed as a remake of the original, but it succeeded as a chilling prophecy of the 2020s. The core difference between the 1987 film and the 2014 version is the protagonist’s psyche. In the original, Murphy (Peter Weller) is essentially dead; his humanity flickers back slowly, like a short circuit. In the remake, Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is awake and screaming. robocop 2014

It is not a classic. It lacks Verhoeven’s anarchic soul and brutal poetry. But as a cerebral science fiction film about the horror of losing your humanity to efficiency, RoboCop 2014 is a quiet masterpiece of discomfort. The 2014 film dedicates its best sequences to

When MGM announced a 2014 reboot, purists (rightfully) sharpened their knives. The idea of a PG-13 RoboCop set in a sleek, futuristic world sounded like sacrilege. Upon release, the film was met with a collective shrug. Critics called it "soulless" and "unnecessary." Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman), the guilt-ridden architect of

In 1987, Paul Verhoeven gave us a miracle of cynical, ultra-violent satire. RoboCop was a Reagan-era fever dream where a decaying Detroit was run by corporate death cults, and the solution to urban decay was a walking gun with a dead man’s face. It was vicious, bloody, and unforgettable.