RoboCop (2014) is a sci-fi action film directed by José Padilha, serving as a remake of the 1987 classic. The movie explores the story of Alex Murphy (played by Joel Kinnaman), a Detroit cop who is ...

A remake/reboot is almost always compared the the original. Often falling victim to two paths of logic: ¨It's too close to the original. It's exactly the same, what's the point?¨ Or If the new ...

RoboCop (1987) prioritized social commentary and dark satire through exaggerated violence and villainous motivations. The 2014 RoboCop reboot failed by taking itself too seriously and ignoring what ...

Justin Klawans is a freelance News Writer at Collider, covering film and television news. He is currently a Staff Writer at The Week covering U.S. news, global news and general assignment work, mostly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But still! I think the RoboCop remake needlessly got a bad rap! Like, do I think there needs to ...

The 2014 remake of RoboCop is disappointing in many ways, but one behind-the-scenes detail makes its failure even more disheartening by showing how good it could have been. The RoboCop remake is, ...

1987’s RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven gives his brutally honest take on Sony‘s 2014 remake. “The problem there, I felt, was that he was really aware that he lost all his legs and arms. He knows it ...

Detroit's silver-plated cop returns to the big screen this week rebooted with a sleek black suit and The Killing's Joel Kinnaman on leading man duties. Though Paul Verhoeven's 1987 original is the ...