Robocop UHD Directors Cut

Killer presentation. Tons of extras. Great movie. Super violent. Movie looks great. Movie still holds up to this day. Read more

Robocop is one of those fun sci-fi/action movies that's a lot of fun for mature adults. There are a couple of scenes, however, that are quite violent and grisly, while many "F-bombs" and other expletives pepper the entire movie, so maybe younger children should be kept away. In a not-too-distant dystopian future, the huge Omni Consumer Products corporation (OCP) is contracted to run the Detroit police department, which is struggling with rampant crime. What OCP needs are police officers that are indestructible, so they study the possibility of building robots to replace human police officers. When Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is all but killed in the line of duty, OCP decides to salvage his brain and a few other body parts and combine them with a robotic body to create a cyborg policeman. Murphy, it turns out, has the temperament required to live as a cyborg. OCP also builds another gigantic and purely robotic machine, "ED 209" (Enforcement Droid 209) with devastating firepower, and markets it as an improved, "urban pacification" police robot. OCP's actual intention is to sell ED 209s to the military as super soldiers, but first, ED 209 has to prove itself capable of "pacifying" Detroit. Robocop Murphy goes after the man who killed him, a drug and criminal kingpin, Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), “unofficial crime boss of old Detroit,” who's in cahoots with Dick Jones (Ronny Cox), Senior President of OCP. Since Murphy proves to be a "one-off" (impossible to duplicate) success, OCP upper management wants to kill him off. This is so the military will forget about him and instead consider buying Ed 209s as battlefield soldier droids (a contract worth billions). Eventually, Robocop and an ED 209 have an epic showdown inside the top executive floor of OCP tower. Bullets and missiles fly profusely and indiscriminately. Robocop is a thoughtful, multifaceted sci-fi/action film that feels like it could actually happen thirty or forty years in the future. I would rate it as one of the best and most influential sci-fi/action films of the 1980s, although it is actually a successful movie franchise that continues up to 2014. Don't forget to bring plenty of popcorn! Read more

I've owned the Criterion edition of "Robocop" for years now so I bought this 20th anniversary DVD strictly for the featurettes. The Commentary with Director Paul Verhoeven, Writer Ed Neumeier and Executive Producer Jon Davison (A+) is still great and worth the price of admission right there. I would rank the best featurettes in this order (No spoilers): Villains Of Old Detroit Featurette(A+) , Special Effects: Then And Now Featurette(A), Robocop: Creating A Legend Featurette(A), (all three recent productions) Flesh And Steel: The Making Of Robocop Featurette(A), Shooting Robocop Featurette(B) & Making Robocop Featurette(B) (Older productions). Since we've all seen the movie, I would recommend that if this movie is in your top ten all time, buy this 20th anniversary edition, those first three featurettes plus the commentary are worth the purchase price alone. I was disappointed by the deleted scenes. I had read about their content but they ended up adding nothing to the experience but no matter, still nice to see them. If you are debating on purchasing the Robo-trilogy instead to save money, don't even considering buying the 20th anniversary edition. IMHO, the 20th anniversary edition is strictly for the Robo-connoisseurs, those who truly love and "get" the movie with all it's extreme violence, innuendoes and political satire. "I'd buy that for a dollar!" The movie is the movie, we've all seen it. It's Verhoeven best work. The violence and intensity pull you in and pound you senselessly. The humanity and humor make it roller coaster ride with an ending that is as satisfying as it is unexpected. Easily one of the best Sci-Fi or action movies of all time. Two versions here, the theatrical version and I believe the director's original "X-rated" version. I have to defer to others as to the exact cut of this version vs. what appears on the Criterion disk, no frame by frame analysis here. Peter Weller does appear in some of the featurettes as well. If you are wondering what he's been up to outside of the entertainment industry, Weller holds a Masters Degree in Roman and Renaissance Art, and is an occasional lecturer at Syracuse University on the subject of Hollywood and the Roman Empire. Wow, how cool is that? "Good business is where you find it." Go Robo! Read more

He is risen great Easter movie. Read more