Review of RoboCop

RoboCop (1987)
An imaginative idea with good effects but poor story line and a lack of realism
9 May 1999
I saw this film for the second time on television and although it portrayed a good idea based on a number of earlier man-made robotic super heroes, as with many such sci-fi films there is too much reliance on effects and not enough on the story. I fear that producers and scriptwriters seem to think that people who watch such films lack intelligence when quite the reverse is true. The idea that robots could one day be used to carry out law-enforcement may be a possibility but I suspect genetic engineering may take us in another direction when criminal tendency will be eliminated from humans when those all important genes will be modified, but then other forms of human failing will have to be treated. But that assumes that we shall not be replaced by robots for everything. The Robocop ends up being the good guy who kills the bad guy and the bad robot and who lives to make Robcop 2 and 3. The question that will always be asked is who decides what is good and right, the programmer or as one day he will be, the robot programmer who makes his descendents? But then that's been dealt with in the Exterminator films, or has it?
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