Word: robocop
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...Arnold, I am criticizing the director--Paul Verhoeven of Robocop fame--for failing to make this flick different from any other Arnold movie. In every one, the indestructible Arnold runs around blowing things up and blowing people away, usually with the final goal of destroying something really important. Not that this can't be fun, but it just tends to get boring after a while...
...Robocop...
...Robocop II--surprisingly--is a refreshing twist on this otherwise mindless genre. Like the original Robocop, its sequel is a dark, satirical commentary on contemporary society, artfully disguised as a Schwarzenegger technoblitz movie, of course...
Picking up where Robocop left off, Peter Weller returns as Alex Murphy, a former Detroit supercop killed in the line of duty and brought back to life as a crime-fighting cyborg ("half man, half machine--all cop") by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), an intensely profit-driven private conglomerate which runs the police department...
Enter our hero, Robocop, whose job it is to stop this menace to society...