Am heutigen Samstag könnt ihr einen wahren Sci-Fi-Klassiker aus den 80ern im TV sehen.
Our TV tip for today comes from him: the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven.
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Mit “RoboCop” aus dem Jahr 1987, läuft heute Abend eine meisterhafte Sci-Fi-Satire. Aber Vorsicht: Der Film hält sich bei der Brutalität nicht zurück.
The robo-friend and helper
In the near future, the city of Detroit is so plagued by a crime epidemic that the city gives control of the Detroit Police Department to the company OCP (Omni-Consumer-Products), which plans to reinforce the police force with robots.
Police officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is ambushed and murdered by the criminal Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) while chasing his gang. OCP takes Murphy's body and turns it into RoboCop, a heavily armed cyborg with no memories, programmed to follow three directives: serve the common good, protect the innocent and uphold the law.
RoboCop launches a particularly effective campaign against the city's criminals and is celebrated for it by the media. However, Murphy's old colleague Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) suspects that RoboCop could be her deceased partner. RoboCop also struggles with the fact that memories of his old life keep coming back to him.
A true classic
“RoboCop” is currently considered an essential film in the science fiction genre. The satire, peppered with social criticism and strong violence, fits very well into the filmography of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, which includes the films “Total Recall” and “Starship Troopers”.
In 2014, the film was remade, which was more financially successful than the original, but in the eyes of many critics could not keep up with the 1987 version.
In her review of the 2016 film in the New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote: “Updating 'Robocop' was a difficult task from the start, if not because of the irony of the original and shocking visions of the future that have become reality today, from the decay of Detroit to the warmly welcomed privatization of […] and the triumph of propaganda over public discourse.
On IMDB the film has a rating of 7.6 stars.
“RoboCop” will be broadcast tonight at 8:15 p.m. on free TV on RTL II. If you missed the film, you can stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
