Mike's Review: This movie was Awesome! It stayed true to the original RoboCop (1987) roots and in the process managed to add more heart to the story and make the overall look of the movie slicker and more plausible. Joel Kinnaman made a decent Alex Murry / RoboCop. But Peter Weller will forever be "robocop" and that will never change.
The way the story developed in the creation of this movies version of a RoboCop I thought was more truer to the technology and politics of today which made this version more realistic and less barbaric then the original RoboCop. I even liked how they kept the wife and child involved through out the whole movie developing the heart of the plot better than the original RoboCop.
The organic and robotic special effects were very well done. That just in itself made watching this remake even more cooler. There were even some other surprises thrown in for good measure from the original paying homage to the past.
If you liked the original RoboCop or any movie or TV show along those lines then you will like this movie.
Best Scene: The organic and robotic special effects were worth watching. However Iron Man did the robotic effects first and better.
Mike's Rating: Worth the price of the ticket and DVD worthy.
Bean's Review: An entertaining enough movie, but not one I
would see again. More character development was needed. The actor
playing Robocop could have been any action-type actor. However, Gary
Oldman, as the doctor that created Robocop, did a good
job of being the only level-headed, moral person at Omnicorp. Michael
Keaton’s character, as the “bad” insensitive greedy corporate magnate,
was too predictable.
The Robocop suit was nifty and the special effects kept your attention.
Best Scene: When Jackie Earle Haley’s character calls Robocop the “Tin Man” and plays the Tin Man song from the Wizard of Oz.
Bean's Rating: DVD
Never having seen the original I went into this with no bias.
ReplyDeleteIt was an enjoyable movie for what it was. The most interesting part was the casting.
I was familiar with Joel Kinneman from AMC...THE KILLING tv series. He basically is playing the same cop character from the show but he does it well so I enjoyed his performance. Gary Oldman was a surprise in that it was nice to see him not playing an evil bad guy. Abbie Cornish playinig the wife could have been played by any lovely actress and finally Samuel L. Jackson was obviously cast in the movie only so they could sell more tickets by putting him in the trailer but his role is a limited one and he's basically playing Sean Hannity channeled through Samuel L. Jackson.