RoboCop (2014)

One thing that always bothered me about movies that were set in the future, but made in
the 80’s and early 90’s, was that they really thought the world was going to end in the 2000’s. Playing off everyone’s fears, so the movies set in the future then looked like crap, as if our growth and technology would never get better. A movie that flaunted this was RoboCop, only said to be set in the near dystopic future, the only thing that looked like it advanced any was the sniper rifles with explosive rounds.

Now we jump ahead to the new movie, set in 2028, where we’ve gotten past the end of the world fear that was pushed heavily on us, and given a chance to see what the movie should have looked like back then. The biggest disappointment with this new version is that it was almost the same movie, they didn’t write a new story, they just modernized the script. 


Police officer, Alex Murphy and his partner try to bust an illegal arms dealer, but are found out and get in a shootout, where his partner is wounded. Alex finds out that the guns being sold are from the police evidence lockup, and he has a pretty good idea who the dirty cops are, he just needs to find the evidence to prove it. The dirty cops approach the arms dealer and tell him to take out Murphy, and give him Alex’s schedule. When Alex goes to visit his partner, a bomb is placed under his car.

Later that night when Alex is home with his wife and son, his car alarm goes off and when he goes out to check on it, the car explodes, critically injuring Alex. The only way to save Alex is to put him in the OmniCorp cybernetic program, where they remove all the damaged tissue and replace it with cybernetics. After 3 months of surgery and upgrading, Alex is woken up to a terrifying sight, that he is now mostly machine.

After refining his software and operations, and going through rehab, Alex is allowed to come home and go back to work, unknowingly as a media stunt to help out OmniCorp get a foothold in the American market, with their robot police force. When Alex is set to be unleashed upon the city of Detroit, they upload the entire police database into his databanks, and he immediately has a panic attack when he accesses the files on his case, forcing the doctors to shut him down and basically make him run on autopilot. Being denied access to see her husband Alex’s wife confronts him on the street in front of the police station, causing a reaction to start in his head that slowly brings him back to normal.

Now that he is back, Alex finds his partner and they go about returning to the case, that they were both almost killed on.



I already said my biggest disappointment, and to be honest that was really all I had against this movie. The things they added to the movie were huge improvements to the holes in the original. The biggest flack this movies is getting is from the people that hold the original so dear to them, but let’s be honest, it was a movie that just wanted to be as gory as it possibly could be. I mean did it need to be that bloody and violent… no and this new version is proof, exact same story better delivery.

That being said, no you don’t have to run out and see it, but it is definitely worth a watch.



I give it a 3 out of 5


Written by Jeff Potts