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2028年，专事军火开发的机器人公司Omni Corp生产了大量装备精良的机械战警，他们被投入到维和和惩治犯罪等行动中，取得显著的效果。罪犯横行的底特律市，嫉恶如仇、正义感十足的警察亚历克斯·墨菲（乔尔·金纳曼饰）遭到仇家暗算，身体受到毁灭性破坏。借助于Omni公司天才博士丹尼特·诺顿（加里·奥德曼饰）最前沿的技术，墨菲以机械战警的形态复活。数轮严格的测试表明，墨菲足以承担起维护社会治安的重任，他的口碑在民众中直线飙升，而墨菲的妻子克拉拉（艾比·考尼什饰）和儿子大卫却再难从他身上感觉亲人的温暖。感知到妻儿的痛苦，墨菲决心向策划杀害自己的犯罪头子展开反击。

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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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