Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
by Paul Verhoeven

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Actor: Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, Peter Weller, Ronny Cox
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Brand: WELLER,PETER
Cinematographer: Sol Negrin
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano
Editor: Frank J. Urioste
Producer: Jon Davison
Writer: Edward Neumeier
Writer: Michael Miner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-21
Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

DVD Reviews of Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

DVD Review: One of the Best
Summary: 5 Stars

Loved it when I was a kid that was really too young to be watching this kind of movie and love it still as an adult who watched it last night. Its amazing how well this movie holds up. It some instances you realize its from a different decade, but for the most part it could have been shot today and seemed very relevant and styled for the present day.

I won't get into the details of the plot or acting, but I'll say if you like action movies that don't pull any punches when it comes to violence while at the same time using that violence effectively to tell a story, you'll enjoy this movie. It may seemed dated, but it has moments that strike a cord perhaps even more so today than it did twenty years ago when this was "science fiction". Now it just seems like this could happen any day now.

DVD Review: Peter Weller Nancy Allen & Paul Verhoreen in the directors chair deliver
Summary: 5 Stars

This was a favorite of mine when I was a kid yes it's a violent movie but hey I seen it in 1997 and but was unfortunate enough to see the 2nd movie first infact I was 7 or 8 when I saw it and I also seen Terminator 1&2 when I was 10. But this film is about a cop who is gunned down by a gang lead by crime boss Clearance Bodicker played by Kurtwood Smith he gets away with anythiing becuse he's protected by Dick Jones played by Ronny Cox. He's a corprate head who even kills a corporate VP out of jelousy becuse Ropocop is cleaning up the streets he used to be officer Alex Murphy he is played by Peter Weller his former partner Ann Lewis played by Nancy Allen tries to help him remember he is Alex Murphy he starts to figure out he was once human. This Blu Ray released has the more violent death of Murphy and a more violent death of an OCP employee by ED 209 because he's a piece of Junk that's faulty. Easy 8.5/10

DVD Review: Excellent Classic Sci-Fi Feature!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I loved this movie when it originally came out on video - and still do. The 20th anniversay collector's edition is top notched. Good to see recent interviews of the actors involved in the movie. Great to have the DTS sound included with this movie.

DVD Review: You have 20 seconds to comply...
Summary: 4 Stars

A policeman is shot to death by a gang of criminals while on duty and is subsequently brought back to life as "Robocop" by his superiors on the police force, as an advanced police officer that is part human and part machine. During this process, his memory is wiped, but he slowly figures out what happened to him and sets out to get bloody revenge on the men who killed him.

An excellent 80's action scifi movie that has ages very well. Ultra-violent and quiet disturbing in places, this is a unique and unmissable movie.

DVD Review: A BRAINY ACTION-PACKED, SATIRICAL , CLASSIC
Summary: 5 Stars

Peter Weller is excellent as the nearly indestructible title character in Robocop, and the direction by Verhoeven in this sci-fi shoot-'em-up is equally effective, but it's the brilliantly twisted humor in the script by Edward Neumeier, and Michael Miner that make this film more than just another TERMINATOR clone movie, and even though the action is almost non-stop, the satirical asides ( such as the television ads for the 'family game' called NUKE 'EM, and the latest in car theft protection ) are deliciously warped. This is definitely a 'guy' pic, but what a great one it is!

Description of Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

There's a new law enforcer in town and he's half man, half machine! From the director of Total Recall and Basic Instinct comes a "sci-fi fantasy with sleek, high-powered drive" (Time) about an indestructible high-tech policeman who dishes out justice at every turn! When a good cop (Peter Weller) gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "Robocop." Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, Robocop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit.

When it arrived on the big screen in 1987, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop was like a high-voltage jolt of electricity, blending satire, thrills, and abundant violence with such energized gusto that audiences couldn't help feeling stunned and amazed. The movie was a huge hit, and has since earned enduring cult status as one of the seminal science fiction films of the 1980s. Followed by two sequels, a TV series, and countless novels and comic books, this original RoboCop is still the best by far, largely due to the audacity and unbridled bloodlust of director Verhoeven. However, the reasons many enjoyed the film are also the reasons some will surely wish to avoid it. Critic Pauline Kael called the movie a dubious example of "gallows pulp," and there's no denying that its view of mankind is bleak, depraved, and graphically violent. In the Detroit of the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is brutally gunned down by drug-dealing thugs and left for dead, but he survives (half of him, at least) and is integrated with state-of-the-art technology to become a half-robotic cop of the future, designed to revolutionize law enforcement. As RoboCop holds tight to his last remaining shred of humanity, he relentlessly pursues the criminals who "killed" him. All the while, Verhoeven (from a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner) injects this high-intensity tale with wickedly pointed humor and satire aimed at the men and media who cover a city out of control. --Jeff Shannon

When it arrived on the big screen in 1987, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop was like a high-voltage jolt of electricity, blending satire, thrills, and abundant violence with such energized gusto that audiences couldn't help feeling stunned and amazed. The movie was a huge hit, and has since earned enduring cult status as one of the seminal science fiction films of the 1980s. Followed by two sequels, a TV series, and countless novels and comic books, this original RoboCop is still the best by far, largely due to the audacity and unbridled bloodlust of director Verhoeven. However, the reasons many enjoyed the film are also the reasons some will surely wish to avoid it. Critic Pauline Kael called the movie a dubious example of "gallows pulp," and there's no denying that its view of mankind is bleak, depraved, and graphically violent. In the Detroit of the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is brutally gunned down by drug-dealing thugs and left for dead, but he survives (half of him, at least) and is integrated with state-of-the-art technology to become a half-robotic cop of the future, designed to revolutionize law enforcement. As RoboCop holds tight to his last remaining shred of humanity, he relentlessly pursues the criminals who "killed" him. All the while, Verhoeven (from a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner) injects this high-intensity tale with wickedly pointed humor and satire aimed at the men and media who cover a city out of control. --Jeff Shannon

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