Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Robocop Critics Movie Review


RATING - 3 STARS

In fashion, there is a proverb which says that every style eventually comes back, in the movie you could just apply this law quite similar. With growing astonishment one can currently observe how a whole series of films from the 80s celebrate their resurrection, because whether the merciless judge Judge Dredd is coming back to the big screen or now the halbrobotische police officer RoboCop, the leaders try primarily a known franchise resurrect allow.

In the year 2028 the global fight against crime is done primarily by the fighting robots of the multinational megacorp OmniCorp, but where poor emotional robot act blindly according to their program code, very different people try to defend themselves. In the United States of America, the robots of OmniCorp are prohibited as before and so tries CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton), together with the scientist Dr. Dennett Norton to find (Gary Oldman) is a solution to this problem. The solution should be calculated the accident the police officer Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), who not only completely disfigured after an explosion, but alone is not even viable. Without further ado, Alex is installed his residual body in the prototype of a robot, which not only the first robot-human hybrid is created, but nevertheless an almost unbeatable police officer openly competes under the name RoboCop against criminals and it tries to rein in ...

RoboCopWhen he was offered about 25 years ago, the writer of the authors, Michael Miner and Edward Neumeier Universal Pictures they were immediately hooked to film the story of halbrobotischen people, but so promising the fabric of successful films such as "Terminator" was, simply could not appropriate director to be found which would accept this. The choice finally fell on the Dutchman Paul Verhoeven who was known for his excessive violence, which is why the film had to be immediately cut several times for the corresponding movie version and was even for a short time in Germany on the index.

After all this time you'd think that this ordeal would have to be shortened, but also the corresponding remake of the Brazilian José Padilha (Tropa de Elite) first had to overcome some hurdles until he finally was completed. MGM already spoke in 2008 of a remake, the whole project stopped just two years later, because suddenly not only the idea was floated by the successful "Avatar" to want to shoot everything in 3D, but the known financial difficulties of MGM those responsible also led to a rethink. This was followed by actors like Michael Fassbender, Russell Crowe and Chris Pine all of which rejected the role of RoboCop, until finally the choice to Sweden Joel Kinnaman (Easy Money) fell, the gratefully accepted the role and the project thus finally able to concentrate.

RoboCopIn a remake as that of "RoboCop" forces itself always inevitably on the comparison with the original, which this time becomes quite exciting. The original from 1987 was revolutionary not only in technical terms, but also from the perspective of science fiction fans, but you could here a development depict how she could possibly be reality, many decades later. It was found in this open vision in a satirical way America's development in the pillory, the fact that robots someday the work of man could take, while also economic issues have been addressed, at least subliminally.

In the new version, all of which will now only occur differentiated, because even though you "RoboCop" still be called without a doubt as science fiction, many of the things shown are now but far from reality. It's about the continue to evolve to halbrobotische mechanisms that act lebensverlängert primarily while one can find even current political discussions as the military drones there prostheses in humans. Of course, the corresponding remake should be no political or economic statement, rather it is a film of the current events of the world looks to be on hand to win the technique and so the viewer shows that with which we could possibly really faced in 15 years .

RoboCopAll of this is visually very clear and promising implemented what it is first and foremost that the corresponding remake comes dramatically less than the 1987 version. The night scenes are reduced to the bare minimum, most of the action takes place on the day when pretty positive light, while even the depiction of violence is not necessarily be described as sprawling. There are a few violent exchange of fire, numerous deaths, but to keep all of this but mostly in the frame. With the desired FSK 12 rating tries to turn here also rather the younger audience that gets a decent, though not necessarily spectacular "RoboCop".

But the Swede Joel Kinnaman could beat in his role as RoboCop? The answer to this question is, at best, "rather than more poorly." Squeezed into his 45-pound suit is absolutely no trace of facial expressions to see which movements are mostly rigid while it comes to action scenes only by the numerous quick cuts convincing for the audience over. Much better beat Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) as a cynical newscasters and gun nut, Michael Keaton (Batman) as intransigent CEO and of course Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight) as a compassionate scientist who also carries the film well in the first place.

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