RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan OHerlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. Set in a crimeridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy Weller who is brutally murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products OCP as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as RoboCop.

In a dystopian nearfuture, Detroit, which is near bankruptcy and overrun with crime, gives Omni Consumer Products OCP control of its struggling police force. The company plans to replace the poor, rundown sections of Old Detroit with the highend Delta City, but must first address the citys high crime rate. As an alternative to existing law enforcement, OCP senior president Dick Jones Ronny Cox offers the prototype ED209 enforcement droid, but it malfunctions and kills a board member during a demonstration. The OCP chairman, nicknamed The Old Man Dan OHerlihy, decides instead to back Jones young rival, Bob Morton Miguel Ferrer, and his experimental cyborg police officer program, RoboCop.Meanwhile, police officer Alex Murphy Peter Weller is transferred to Old Detroit, where he is teamed with officer Anne Lewis Nancy Allen. On their first patrol, they tail a gang of bank robbers, led by ruthless crime lord Clarence Boddicker Kurtwood Smith, to an abandoned steel mill. Inside, Lewis is incapacitated by Joe Cox Jesse D. Goins and Murphy, attempting to make an arrest, is surrounded, brutally maimed by several gunshots, and apparently killed by the gang. After attempts by an ER trauma team to resuscitate him fail, his body is taken to a lab at OCP and rebuilt as RoboCop. He is given three primary directives serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and uphold the law as well as a fourth, secret directive. ........

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