Film Review – RoboCop

1987’s “RoboCop” is a special film. A roaring mix of satire and action, the movie is unspeakably violent, slyly scripted, and masterfully crafted by director Paul Verhoeven, who gorged on police procedural pictures and vomited up a hardcore ode to heroism and humanity. For 2014, there’s a remake, a chance to return the iconic character to the screen, bewitching old fans and tempting new. Of course, all the CGI, chaotic action, and screaming characters can’t even begin to match the assertive steamroller experience of the original feature, and while the remake tries to have an identity of its own, it forgets a personality. It’s easy to label the new “RoboCop” a failure, a pale imitation, but the effort makes dismissal painless, coming off as a basic cable production from CNN. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com