Remake of the 1987 favorite, about a critically injured police officer, whose only chance of survival is to become a part-man/part-robot being that is used to uphold the law. It's easy to nip at the movie for being for more tame in terms of violence (considering the original's R-rating), but it wasn't for a lack of trying by director Padilha and star Kinnaman—and the remake actually seems far more action-packed despite the lack of bloodshed. Another plus are themes of consciousness/mind and free will, which is worked in very fittingly. Keaton and Oldman are excellent, and the film is even further heightened by many homages to the original, especially with snippets of Basil Poledouris' 1987 score. While Jackson is also a pleasure as Novak, a television host and supporter of RoboCop, the film's major downfall is the out-of-place humor in the first and last scenes of the film—the latter of which is followed by The Clash's "I Fought the Law", which is just too distractingly strange to let it go unmentioned.
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