I'll start off with the film's plot. In the year 2028, Police officer Alex Murphy (played by Joel Kinnaman) lives a happy life with his wife and son. But while on the hunt for crime boss Antoine Vallon along with his partner Jack Lewis (Michael K. Williams), Jack is injured. While visiting him at the hospital, a bomb is secretly strapped to Murphy's car, later going off and injuring Alex with up to 4th degree burns, severing over 80% of his body. OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton) sees this as a possibility to bring Alex back as a half human/ half robot to help bring order to the police department of Detroit, and hires Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman) to bring his dreams to a reality. So there's the basic plot. Not too bad, right? Let's keep going. Next up, I'll talk about the characters and acting. So, we have our basic plot, now let's talk about the characters/acting. Many people believe that in Gareth Edward's Godzilla, Many people thought that the characters were either unrelatable, or seemed very stiff in their acting. I respectfully disagree. In this film however, there was so much screen time for the characters, and even then they were boring, unrelatable, or didn't even have a personality. And it isn't as if they didn't have time to give personalities. The film had plenty of time to care for their characters, but they really didn't for most of them. I did greatly enjoy Gary Oldman's Dr. Norton, who played one of the best roles in the film. Another great character in the film was Pat Novak, a show host pushing to get robots on the streets as "the future of American justice." And best of all, he was played by Samuel L. Jackson! So while most characters were not great to see, there were still a couple that gave you a good vibe. Next up: the action. If you're going to go see an action movie, what do you want? ACTION! 'SPLOSIONS!! BLOWIN' STUFF UP!! And a bit of story too. In this however, there are only a few fight scenes, and most of those are either in the dark, from thermal cameras, or shaky cam. There is only one good fight scene in which RoboCop faces off against Rick Mattox (Jacke Earle Haley), and around 40 to 50 drones. So if you've seen all the trailers, you haven't missed much. Now it's time for the final category; the graphics and budget. Most films (action especially) have a budget of around 150 to 200 million dollars. I was a bit impressed, as this film put 100 million into it, and while you didn't see much action, or drones, the graphics were pretty great, as they gave us several neat-looking point-of-view shots from RoboCop, and his suits were pretty impressive. So yes, I'd but that for a dollar, but not much more. If I ever see it on a nice sale, I might pick it up. It definitely was not one of those "have to see it before you die or you're a horrible person" movies, but it certainly wasn't bad, and I wouldn't mind Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer moving on with a possible sequel. I rate RoboCop 3 stars.
