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2028年，專事軍火開發的機器人公司Omni Corp生產了大量裝備精良的機械戰警，他們被投入到維和和懲治犯罪等行動中，取得顯著的效果。罪犯橫行的底特律市，嫉惡如仇、正義感十足的警察亞歷克斯·墨菲（喬爾·金納曼飾）遭到仇家暗算，身體受到毀滅性破壞。借助于Omni公司天才博士丹尼特·諾頓（加里·奧德曼飾）最前沿的技術，墨菲以機械戰警的形態復活。數輪嚴格的測試表明，墨菲足以承擔起維護社會治安的重任，他的口碑在民眾中直線飆升，而墨菲的妻子克拉拉（艾比·考尼什飾）和兒子大衛卻再難從他身上感覺親人的溫暖。感知到妻兒的痛苦，墨菲決心向策劃殺害自己的犯罪頭子展開反擊。

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It's safe to say, Robocop will not make much of a dent in Chinese film market. Not because it faces strongcompetition against the new Hobbit film, but rather because it has its own disadvantages.

Firstly, the original 1987 film of the same name is not very well known in China. Despite its one-time popularity which spawned a lackluster franchise, all I could vaguely recall is an animated TV series. There are some science-fiction fans who remember Paul Verhoeven's movie as a must-see classic, but generally speaking few would walk into the cinema knowing they'll be seeing a remake.

Even for those looking forward to watching a modern interpretation of the story, there are still a few things that will disappoint viewers, but we'll come to that later.

To do justice to the director Jose Padilha, we need to first acknowledge his efforts to appeal to viewers with modern tastes. I don't think the new generation of moviegoers could appreciate the stiff action genreof the last century. I don't think the styles of Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger are able to sell as they once did. If they were a few decades younger, they would abandon their "stand-still-and-shoot"style quicker than you can say Jack Robinson.

So the 2014 entry is an improvement on the Verhoeven original. The story is propelled by swift action and deft editing. And modern CGI techniques offer rewarding effects, including videogame-like gunfights and perhaps a somewhat discomforting exhibition of brain surgery.

On the other side of editing is a barely complete story. The 1987 classic, according to Wikipedia, includes themes regarding the media, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, dystopia and many others. But in the remake, two words are enough to summarize the whole piece: shooting sprees. Robocop has a wife and a son, but no screen time is devoted to explaining how they get used to a family member made of steel. Thescientist played by Gary Oldman tampered with Robocop's brain to make him, or it, lose human sentiment. There could well be some extra storylines on the side to enrich the whole set. But the director chose to ignore them, and instead decided that the viewers needed more gunfights.

A human-robot sci-fi film is always an appetizer for the more thoughtful of filmgoers. But with "Robocop",each time you think "Wait a minute, that's an interesting idea", the story fails to linger and instead carries you forward to a noisy showdown of 50 caliber bullets.

The movie's primary target is the brainy sci-fi lovers, but it has not done a great job to entertainment them.

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