Classic Movie

Half cop, half bloke, half gammy-legged twerp

	RoboCop was a brilliantly conceived Slice of the Future According to Paul Verhoeven

RoboCop (1987)

The plot: It’s the old 'cop goes to a dystopic, crime-ridden, virtually ungovernable new city with idyllic views of making it a better place, cop gets trapped and used as target practise by a gang who are intrinsically linked to corporate juggernaut  OCP (Omni Consumer Product) who have just entered into a contract to help the underfunded police department, cop gets reborn as a cybernetic rozzer who never sleeps and has a big gun, robot cop gradually engenders feelings of self and sets sights on revenge, robot cop exacts violent revenge upon gang thereby restoring his inner clarity and a sense of hope to a futuristic city crumbling on its knees'. Yes, that old chestnut.

Why’s is a classic? Aswell as being a damning commentary on the burgeoning state of crime and lawlessness in big-city America, RoboCop was a brilliantly conceived Slice of the Future According to Paul Verhoeven – the genius that would go on to make Total Recall and Starship Troopers. Clarence Boddicker’s gang are ace too. There’s an Afro-American in a black panther beret, a biker who’s obsessed with a shit TV show (‘I’d buy that for a dollar’), a Bandana’d Korean that looks like an extra from The Karate Kid and a bouffant dude that looks like he runs a chain of hairdressers in Liverpool. RoboCop himself moves like George Galloway in a leotard, and his slight of foot gives him all the subtlety of a Swastika. And, despite looking hard, RoboCop’s arch cybernetic nemesis ED-209 can’t even climb stairs. Amazing.