What can you say about this film. The title as often happens, gives the premise away rather easily.
Plot: Officer Murphy (Peter Weller) and his partener Lewis (Nancy Allen) are cops in Detrioit, a crime and violence ravaged city which is on the brink of coprorate takeover. While on patrol the pair enter into a chase with bank robbers. After trailing them to their hide out, Officer Murphy is riddled with bullets and pronounced dead. Having signed his life over to the police, the corporation now in charge of the precinct, OCP (Omni Consumer Products) takes ownership of his body and procceds with a transplant and insertion. Following extensive surgery, the OCP have a new weapon against crime, his name is...RoboCop!
Shot in 1987, director Paul Verhoeven spent $13,000,000 to create a sci-fi cult film, which, oddly for such endeavours reaped box office reward, $53,424,681 to be precise.
Fun Fact: While Peter Weller wore the suit, he was losing upwards of 3 pounds a day through sweat. There were two sequels and a TV series to follow. There was also talk of a Darren Aronofsky remake, which he quashed at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Plot: Officer Murphy (Peter Weller) and his partener Lewis (Nancy Allen) are cops in Detrioit, a crime and violence ravaged city which is on the brink of coprorate takeover. While on patrol the pair enter into a chase with bank robbers. After trailing them to their hide out, Officer Murphy is riddled with bullets and pronounced dead. Having signed his life over to the police, the corporation now in charge of the precinct, OCP (Omni Consumer Products) takes ownership of his body and procceds with a transplant and insertion. Following extensive surgery, the OCP have a new weapon against crime, his name is...RoboCop!
Shot in 1987, director Paul Verhoeven spent $13,000,000 to create a sci-fi cult film, which, oddly for such endeavours reaped box office reward, $53,424,681 to be precise.
Fun Fact: While Peter Weller wore the suit, he was losing upwards of 3 pounds a day through sweat. There were two sequels and a TV series to follow. There was also talk of a Darren Aronofsky remake, which he quashed at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
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