RoboCop

RoboCop

When it arrived on the big screen in 1987, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop was like a high-voltage jolt of electricity, blending satire, thrills, and abundant violence with such energized gusto that audiences couldn't help feeling stunned and amazed. The movie was a huge hit, and has since earned enduring cult status as one of the seminal science fiction films of the 1980s. Followed by two sequels, a TV series, and countless novels and comic books, this original RoboCop is still the best by far, largely due to the audacity and unbridled bloodlust of director Verhoeven. However, the reasons many enjoyed the film are also the reasons some will surely wish to avoid it. Critic Pauline Kael called the movie a dubious example of "gallows pulp," and there's no denying that its view of mankind is bleak, depraved, and graphically violent. In the Detroit of the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is brutally gunned down by drug-dealing thugs and left for dead, but he survives (half of him, at least) and is integrated with state-of-the-art technology to become a half-robotic cop of the future, designed to revolutionize law enforcement. As RoboCop holds tight to his last remaining shred of humanity, he relentlessly pursues the criminals who "killed" him. All the while, Verhoeven (from a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner) injects this high-intensity tale with wickedly pointed humor and satire aimed at the men and media who cover a city out of control. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Production: Orion Pictures Corporation
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1987
102
Website
17,646 Views
Part Man. Part Machine. All Cop.
The future of law enforcement.

[Clarence Boddicker and his crew are fleeing an armed robbery]

Clarence Boddicker:
[opening up boxes of charred money] Sh*t! I don't believe it!

Bobby:
What?

Clarence Boddicker:
You! You burnt the f***ing money!

Bobby:
I had to blow the door! What do you want?

Clarence Boddicker:
It's as good as marked, you a**hole! [throws the money in Bobby's face] You stupid, stupid a**hole! [Emil, the driver, pounds the dashboard]

Emil M. Antonowsky:
CLARENCE!

Clarence Boddicker:
What do you want?!

Emil M. Antonowsky:
We've got a cop on our tail! [The gang members pump their shotguns. Leon Nash walks over to the back window, looks out and sees Murphy and Lewis's police car behind them]

Leon Nash:
Move it! Bring it up!

Joe P. Cox:
Move it!

Emil M. Antonowsky:
Hey, hey! This crate ain't going to outrun a cop!

Clarence Boddicker:
Slow down, then!

Emil M. Antonowsky:
What, are you crazy, man?! [Boddicker strikes Emil with his fists]

Clarence Boddicker:
Shut the f*** up and do it! Just do it!

[Cut to Murphy and Lewis in the cruiser]

Alex Murphy:
Central, this is 1-5-4. We are in pursuit of 2-1-1 suspects. Request backup.

Dispatcher:
Roger, 1-5-4. Back up is currently unavailable.

Alex Murphy:
[to Lewis] Give me your piece. [He straps on his helmet and loads his and Lewis's pistols]

Dispatcher:
Backup ETA, 15 minutes.

[Cut to the panel truck]

Clarence Boddicker:
Bobby, get the door! Everybody load up!

Leon C. Nash:
All right, let's go! Come on! [Everybody checks their weapons and aims them at the back doors]

Alex Murphy:
OK!

Anne Lewis:
All right. Go. [Murphy leans his head out the window, and the police car catches up to the panel truck]

Clarence Boddicker:
NOW! [Bobby kicks open the back doors and the gang opens fire, only to notice the police car has vanished]

Leon C. Nash:
What the f***? Where did he go?!

Clarence Boddicker:
Emil!

Emil M. Antonowsky:
[looks out the passenger's window] Here! He's up here! [Murphy and Lewis are driving right next to the truck. Boddicker fires his shotgun out the window, and Murphy fires back]

Gang members:
Jesus!

[The police car falls back behind the panel truck. Murphy continues shooting, until Bobby falls, hit in the legs]

Clarence Boddicker:
Get him! [Nash rushes over to the back door and fires, bullets hitting the roof lights and cracking the windshield]

Bobby:
Ah, sh*t, Clarence! My leg!

Clarence Boddicker:
Leon! Pick him up!

[Murphy, outside, reloads his pistol. Inside, the gang members pull Bobby to his feet]

Clarence Boddicker:
Can you fly, Bobby?

Bobby:
Clarence, no! [The gang members heave Bobby out the doors and he lands on the police car's windshield. Lewis panics, and spins out]

[Emil reaches for a shotgun after Murphy kills his TV watching friend Dougy]

Alex Murphy:
Go ahead and do it. Dead or alive, you're coming with me. [on radio] Lewis? Lewis? Lewis, I've got a situation here. [to Emil] Okay, tough guy, get up. Get up! Turn around. Spread your legs! That's right. [Murphy hoists Emil to his feet and turns him around]

[Lewis stumbles to her feet as she recovers from being pushed down by Joe Cox]

Alex Murphy:
[on radio] Lewis, where are you? Are you all right? [Murphy is holding his pistol to the back of Emil's head] Put your hands on your head. Lewis? [He takes out his handcuffs, only to hear shotguns being pumped. He looks up and sees Steve Minh and Leon Nash standing at the top of two different staircases]

Leon C. Nash:
Why don't you let us take over from here, Emil? [Emil spins, grabs Murphy's pistol and throws it in a container. Nash and Minh advance down the steps, shotguns trained on Murphy. As they approach, Emil grabs his own shotgun, pumps it, and puts the barrel to Murphy's neck]

Emil M. Antonowsky:
Your ass is mine!

Clarence Boddicker:
No! Not yet, it ain't.

[Boddicker enters the room, holding a shotgun in his hand]

Clarence Boddicker:
Well what have we here? [He unbuckles Murphy's helmet and puts it on Emil] You a good cop, hotshot? [Emil chuckles] Well sure you are! [steps to Murphy's right side] Boy, you must be some kind of a...great cop, coming here all by yourself.

[Boddicker hits Murphy in the legs with the butt of his weapon]

Clarence Boddicker:
Where's your partner? [kicks Murphy] Where's your partner?! [Joe Cox enters]

Joe P. Cox:
Well, guys, the other one was upstairs. She was swe-e-e-e-e-e-t, oom, oom, oom! I took her out! [cackles]

[Boddicker kicks Murphy again and Cox pumps his shotgun]

Clarence Boddicker:
I bet that really pisses you off. [a gang member chuckles] You probably don't think I'm a very nice guy, do ya?

Alex Murphy:
Buddy, I think you're slime. [The gang members laugh loudly]

Clarence Boddicker:
See, I got this problem. Cops don't like me. So I don't like cops. [aims his shotgun across Murphy] Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na...[shoots off Murphy's right hand] Well, give the man a hand!

[The gang members laugh. Murphy clutches his bleeding right stump with his left hand]

Clarence Boddicker:
He's all yours. [Murphy stands up and attempts to limp away]

Emil M. Antonowsky:
All right, look out! Two in a row! [to Murphy] Hey, pretty boy! Hey, over here! [Murphy turns around and Emil fires his shotgun, Murphy's entire arm comes off. Murphy screams as the gang proceeds to empty their shotguns into him]

Joe P. Cox:
I'm out of ammo.

[Boddicker casually lights a cigarette]

Emil M. Antonowsky:
Hey Clarence, he's still alive. [Murphy screams in agony]

Joe P. Cox:
[in singsong voice] Does it hurt? Does it hurt? [The gang members laugh]

[Boddicker walks over and produces a pistol]

Clarence Boddicker:
OK, fun's over. [shoots Murphy in the face; Murphy drops dead] Okay, let's get out of here.

Joe P. Cox:
Good night, sweet prince! [laughs as he and the gang depart]


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