I didn’t walk into RoboCop with high hopes. I walked in with lowered expectations.
The odds were not in its favor. Hollywood has been trying for years to put out a Winter blockbuster, but February is pretty much their tax write-off movie month. Marvel movie clunkers Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance all came out in February. A Good Day to Die Hard, the latest PG-13 installment of the originally R-rated movie series came out in February. Now Columbia/MGM are trying their luck with a remake of the 1987 classic starring fan favourite Peter Weller, but with Joel Kinnaman, a virtual unknown by my lights in the title role?
Samuel L. Jackson’s name wasn’t even enough to get my hopes up. At least, not his name alone. He’s made some picks I can’t back him up on. But I saw the names Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman and Jackie Earle Haley attached, and my eyebrow went up even if my hopes did not.
It was a pleasant surprise to say that I enjoyed this movie quite a bit more than I thought I would. They made up for the gratuitous violence by giving the movie a solid heart, and making OCP/Omnicorp even more detestable than they were in the original film. Wisely, Joshua Zetumer didn’t try to go for a shot-for-shot remake. He took the path of making it almost an alternate universe version of the story with a lot of visual callbacks to the original to appeal to the nostalgic fans who were looking to see their old hero in a new form.
The core elements remain the same: good cop Alex Murphy gets on the wrong side of the bad guys, and they do him grievous bodily harm. OCP, looking for a toehold with their war machines in the American market, convinces grieving wife Clara to let them help her husband by outfitting him with experimental cybernetic prostheses. Alex is introduced to the public, who embrace him as RoboCop. Things go well with the machine pulling most of the heavy lifting until the man claws his way back to the surface and solves his own murder.
Chick At The Flicks Reviews Robocop 2014
I’ll be honest.
I didn’t walk into RoboCop with high hopes. I walked in with lowered expectations.
The odds were not in its favor. Hollywood has been trying for years to put out a Winter blockbuster, but February is pretty much their tax write-off movie month. Marvel movie clunkers Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance all came out in February. A Good Day to Die Hard, the latest PG-13 installment of the originally R-rated movie series came out in February. Now Columbia/MGM are trying their luck with a remake of the 1987 classic starring fan favourite Peter Weller, but with Joel Kinnaman, a virtual unknown by my lights in the title role?
Samuel L. Jackson’s name wasn’t even enough to get my hopes up. At least, not his name alone. He’s made some picks I can’t back him up on. But I saw the names Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman and Jackie Earle Haley attached, and my eyebrow went up even if my hopes did not.
It was a pleasant surprise to say that I enjoyed this movie quite a bit more than I thought I would. They made up for the gratuitous violence by giving the movie a solid heart, and making OCP/Omnicorp even more detestable than they were in the original film. Wisely, Joshua Zetumer didn’t try to go for a shot-for-shot remake. He took the path of making it almost an alternate universe version of the story with a lot of visual callbacks to the original to appeal to the nostalgic fans who were looking to see their old hero in a new form.
The core elements remain the same: good cop Alex Murphy gets on the wrong side of the bad guys, and they do him grievous bodily harm. OCP, looking for a toehold with their war machines in the American market, convinces grieving wife Clara to let them help her husband by outfitting him with experimental cybernetic prostheses. Alex is introduced to the public, who embrace him as RoboCop. Things go well with the machine pulling most of the heavy lifting until the man claws his way back to the surface and solves his own murder.
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