Robocop Trilogy [Remastered] (Blu-ray)
A triple bill of sci-fi cops.
The first film, ‘Robocop’, is set in the near future and Detroit’s soaring crime
rate is unsuccessfully policed by a corporation which plans to build a new city,
if its workers can go about unmolested. When its new ‘enforcement droid’ proves
unworkable, a murdered cop (Peter Weller) is wired into a computer-controlled
titanium body and set to the task at hand. Unimpressed, ‘Robocop’ seeks
vengeance on all sides in this violent but often funny tale.
In the second film, ‘Robocop 2’, a new model, Robocop 2 (Tom Noonan), is built
while Robocop 1 still patrols the streets of Detroit. Robocop 2 is given a
maniac’s ‘soul’, thereby setting the stage for a showdown between the two
computer constables.
Finally, in ‘Robocop 3’ Robocop is befriended by a young girl whose parents have
been killed, and after his partner is killed by the head of a private security
firm, he joins a group of rebels to fight back against the evil businessmen.
There is a notable fight sequence between a plastic-like robot Ninja and the
sluggish metal Robocop, which, together with the rebels hiding out in the
derelict General Motors Factory, constitutes a thinly veiled critique of the
Japanese car industry from the heart of Detroit – the original motor city.
