Word: robocops
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...died in the 17th century, British thinker Thomas Hobbes would have liked this movie so much that philosophy students today would be reading a book entitled "Robocop" instead of "Leviathan...
Because in a world of brutal criminals and immoral businessmen, the film tells us that the only thing that can save us from our greedy, debased selves is a half-man, half-machine "cyborg" named Robocop...
Equipped with the latest technological advances in medicine and artillery, the superhuman Robocop, his memory erased and his mind reprogrammed to "uphold the law," hits the streets of the city's crime-ridden districts. A combination of the Terminator, Dirty Harry and a Campbell's soup can, Robocop shoots with pinpoint accuracy, deflects bullets like an armored car, and handles his machine-gun sidearm like a cowboy...
...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...