RoboCop - The Director's Cut

Director: Paul Verhoeven

1987 / 102min / DCP

I’d buy that for a dollar! For a strange few years, beginning with this runaway hit, the perverse imagination and earthy humor of Verhoeven seemed to sync up perfectly with the desires of the American multiplex-going public. In dystopian Detroit, private sector Omni Consumer Products have taken over policing and made the ultimate law enforcement machine from leftover pieces of peace officer Peter Weller—but they didn’t bank on their invention making his way up the corporate ladder of crime. A frightfully funny vision of a post-industrial cybernetic future, with Kurtwood Smith, Ronny Cox, and Muguel Ferrer an impressive trifecta of irredeemable scumbags.

Distributor: Park Circus

Part of A Cyberpunk Canon