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Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and
winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive (Miguel Ferrer) at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic
city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel limbs and rewires his brain with computer chips so he will have
no will of his own. Murphys former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry
blocks whatever dim memories remain. Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop,
causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the
top of OCP. This second English-language film by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is unremittingly brutal, darkly comic, and
filled with bits of clever satire and pathos. A special highlight is the hilariously incompetent ED-209, RoboCop's main rival
in the department of automated law enforcement. Considered by many critics to be one of the best films of its genre, ROBOCOP
was followed by several sequels and a 1994 TV series.
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