movies went, it was pretty good. But as a strategy, not worth repeating.
Tell that to Hollywood which has doubled down on the strategy: Footloose, About Last Night, Endless Love, Carrie and now RoboCop. Perhaps there's a reason why I never saw it back in a year of otherwise good movies, 1987.
Joel Kinnaman (I know, right?) plays Detective Alex Hunter, a Man Barely Alive. Lots of cues to The Bionic Man. To get right into it, the human Alex is damaged by a car bomb. He loses a leg, an arm, an eye. But we can rebuild him.
Technology already exists for robotic fighters, but like drones, strictly forbidden on US soil. The news hawks don't like that: As the Samuel Jackson character, Bill O'Reilly-like asks: "Why is America so robophobic? [nice!] If it weren't for that silly Dreyfus Act prohibiting it.
But the American Way demands that technology be monetized, damn the costs. OmniCorp CEO played by a much welcomed back Michael Keaton requests that the robotic crime fighter be humanized, using all computerized technology available. He make a good video game, first person shooter. The consultant Maddox (Jackie Earl Haley- the best character) who believes that humanized robot is just not as good as a regular robot, tests him out in a nice shakedown scene. Very Matrix-like.
It turns out you can make a Tin Man, but you can't take out the heart. But this movie could use a little less tin, and a bit more heart.
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