RoboCop

With a host of others, Padilha and screenwriter Joshua Zetumer concoct a bubbling stew of terror-streaked social satire and teary domesti...

RoboCop is a solid near-future action pic that poses moral questions about artificial intelligence and remote-control combat systems without g...

There are plenty of reasons to be sceptical about remakes of action classics, but director Jose Padilha’s 21st-century take on Paul Verhoeven...

At least offers something resembling ideas of morality and mortality in the guise of a silly shoot-'em-up, even if those ideas are eventually...

While the remake may not be groundbreaking, at least it appears to have been made by someone who understands what made the original great. For that...

RoboCop becomes less a work of aspirational coolness and more a piece of political satire – and not necessarily a bad one.

This is at heart a pretty sad movie. Verhoeven wouldn’t be caught dead making you care about anything in his "RoboCop"; Padilha is after...

Slightly squarer and less subversive than the other one, but also admirable in its refusal to simply replicate the circuitry of a blockbuster...

RoboCop is no canned remake of the 1987 action film. It’s a reimagining that responds to everything that has changed in American life ov...

Padilha is Brazilian, and it’s interesting that both RoboCops have been made by men whose non-Hollywood work focused on their respective coun...

Thanks to a good cast and a willingness to stray fairly far afield from the source material, it’s better than you might think.

Most people will go see this film for the extensive gun play and the body count, which of course make for swell entertainment. But you don’t...

Every generation, apparently, gets the "RoboCop" it deserves, or perhaps desires.

This is a superhero film for grown-ups that reflects a moment when drone usage is hotly debated and it’s no longer ridiculous to contemplate...

The Brazilian director José Padilha may be working for a Hollywood studio but he doesn’t temper his critique of American imperialism, bi...

It retains the central ideas and themes of the original while updating and rearranging the narrative to lose a derivative feel.

Like RoboCop himself, it doesn’t seem quite as truly, organically alive as it once did. But it sure looks sleek, and moves pretty fast. And i...

What’s the "point" of a Robocop remake? If you’re bothering to ask yourself such questions, you must find the modern world a...

The film has lots of energized mayhem, and Murphy’s unraveling of the conspiracy against him isn’t dumbed down, yet it’s as if th...

It fully justifies its existence. That doesn’t mean it’s especially good. But it’s a rare "reboot" that transcends its studi...

This remake of the 1987 dystopian classic has a better cast, more meticulous script and, naturally, flashier effects, but it lacks the or...

It’s a less playful enterprise than the original, but meets the era’s darker demands for action reboots with machine-tooled effici...

It’s well made, polished, and hits every mark – but is it crazy to want a futuristic sci-fi action flick about a motorcycle-riding metal...