Note: I’ve borrowed heavily from the awesome review that @t1g3r5fan did for the recent bluray edition.
RoboCop – Limited Edition Blu-ray Review
In the near future, the city of Detroit is overrun by crime and Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is just one of many cops trying to keep the peace. Unfortunately, on his first day on the job for the city’s West Precinct, he is violently tortured, shot, and left for dead by the ruthless Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) and his gang when Murphy tries to bring them in following a bank robbery. However, through the use of his body by enterprising OCP executive Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), he is reborn as RoboCop, the city’s latest line of defense against the crime wave. But Murphy’s memories start to gradually return, and this combination of half man and half machine is set on...
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