Word: robocop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talents come in handy. In the America of the 1990s, corporations have become all-powerful. They run police departments for municipal governments like caterers run restaurants for hotels. Corporate executives control everything, and as Robocop soon learns, it is a businessman named Dick who masterminded Murphy's murder...
Celebrating graphic violence in the name of justice, Robocop appeals to the same American admiration for crimebusting that made Clint Eastwood first a star, and then mayor of Carmel, California...
...Robocop is no vigilante. Unlike Dirty Harry, Robocop remains inside the law and kills only when attacked. Which is not to say that this cyborg lacks a thirst for revenge. Chance encounters with one of his murderers and with his former partner (Nancy Allen) bring back some of Murphy's memories. And in pursuing his killers, Robocop is led straight to the man behind his murder, Dick...
After many attempts to destroy Robocop, Dick sends his gang after Weller with space-age army rifles that can destroy Volkswagon vans in one shot. The climactic battle that ensues in a closed-down steel mill is exciting and original in a movie genre replete with a thousand cliches and tricks. In the end, Robocop tracks down Dick in his corporate headquarters, which is guarded by a hilariously inept robot-tank which looks like a sumo wrestler...
Like The Terminator, the action scenes combine a mix of high-tech special effects with good-old rough 'em up fighting. But this time, it's good to see all the mechanized firepower working on the side of justice instead of against it. And Robocop's combination of controlled force and execution of the laws puts Dirty Harry to shame...