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  Review by Ghostsmut ★★★★ 11

  If you watch this film expecting it to be some retelling of the original you'll be disappointed. This remake is a completely different flavour to the original. No hyper violence and it's a 12a.

  If that concerns you then I have news for you: Congratulations. You are now your parents. Shall I turn the music down too?

  RoboCop is the definition of why you remake a film. Not to do exactly the same thing but to spin the story to a modern day audience. Much like a cover version of an old song - why would you want it to be exactly the same?

  Anyway, I digress - I really enjoyed RoboCop. Sure the politics were painted in big brush…

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  Review by CinemaJoe ★½ 2

  The scene where Gary Oldman’s character disassembles Alex Murphy until he’s just a floating head and lungs is something out of a Cronenberg movie. Gives me nightmares. 

  Bad movie though, which is a shame because I think there’s a reality where this could have worked

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★ 15

  If you are going to go for a dark, more mature remake of Robocop having removed the dark comedy, gore and uber violence than you had better kick up the action to the level of a summer block buster!

  Unfortunately that didn't happen!

  Dull, lifeless, I felt like I had been darted with a tranquilizer gun!

  Didn't care one iota about the characters!

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  Review by Evan ★ 16

  Admittedly, I'm not a die hard fan of the original. I really liked it (4/5), but by no means am I in love with it. So I was pretty open minded toward this remake.

  I really wish I hadn't been open minded because this totally sucked. I was seriously bored out of my mind! With 25 minutes left, I was saying to myself: ok there's going to be some awesome action sequences coming up. But it literally never happened. Honestly nothing happens during the entire movie. Action was damn near non-existent. The acting was laughably bad.

  When I say this was boring, I'm not kidding. Staying awake was such a struggle. I somehow managed not to fall asleep or even dose off. I'm still pretty amazed that I didn't do so.

  Final Verdict: This movie is a cesspool of dumpster sludge.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★

  more openly politically critical than a cutting satire, the faults here are narrative rather that subtextual. Verhoeven's film, stripped of its ideas, would still be a kick-ass action film about a murdered police officer who gets turned into a robot and avenges his own death. this isn't particularly funny or all that exciting. but it's not stupid, either.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★½

  This movie is making me rethink everything I believe about remakes. I appreciate that this is not just the original film redone in 2014. Although it has plenty of connections to its source, it takes some chances and definitely does things differently. If you've seen Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP, you haven't automatically seen Jose Padilha's ROBOCOP. I like that.

  AND YET! Almost everything about this is disappointing. I enjoyed some of the effects, particularly in disassembling and reassembling Joel Kinnaman as everyone's favorite robot-cop; there are a few shots that are both totally disturbing and slightly hilarious. The movie also has some ideas it wants to explore about the nature of free will and human consciousness. It's not just mindless action;…

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  Review by Marky17Movies ★★★

  It’s not a classic like Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original but it is a excellent intelligent science fiction drama. One of the boldest Hollywood reboots we’ve seen yet. A reboot with a real kick.

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  Review by Bailey ★★

  It's just so mid if I'm being honest

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★ 1

  Me, imagining the people who wrote this movie:

  “Let’s take a brilliant, biting satire, drain it of everything that makes it interesting, tone down the violence to sub-PG-13 levels, and stuff it with every blockbuster cliche we can find.”

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  Review by Jay ★

  robo-phobic

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  Review by DirkH ★★★ 8

  RoboCop: AKA the day I learned to let go.

  I was not planning on watching this. I am deeply, nostalgically in love with Verhoeven's film. The moment I heard that this remake was going to happen I decided that I would not see this, no matter what. So what happened? Well, two words, Friedberg and Selzer.

  Tuesday evening is my regular Sneak Preview evening at my local theater. We never know what we're going to get, but it's always a new film. So when the film started and we saw the title splashed across the screen like a slap in the face, Best Night Ever the latest 'comedy' by those to awful men, I looked at my buddy and we…

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  Review by Bryan Espitia ★★★ 2

  “It’s the illusion of free will.”

  Honestly better than it should be. Not totally empty-headed but unfortunately also not a particularly great action movie and it completely flatlines in the finale. The heavyweights in the cast really help carry it though, Sam Jackson is a hoot.