Peter Weller’s work as slain police officer Alex Murphy, and then as unstoppable law enforcement titan RoboCop, is a thing of peerless beauty.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 24, 2022

While those whose tastes don’t include the spectacle of large machines noisily blasting at each other are not likely to be enticed by Robocop, this shocked look at the urban future should engage and crank up action fans.

| Jul 18, 2022

RoboCop was obviously inspired by that other 80s classic, The Terminator – but The Terminator didn’t have this sophisticated, subversive element.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 18, 2022

Murphy, at least in Verhoeven’s hands, seems to be asking for his fate with his gum-chewing, gun-toting bravado.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2022

With its stellar AV presentation and bounty of extras befitting a film so defined by excess, Arrows 4K UHD Blu-ray is sure to be the definitive release of RoboCop for years to come.

| Apr 4, 2022

Verhoeven's strong suits have always been visual energy and a Rabelaisan realism: a gutsy, jovial way of ripping through social systems.

| Feb 11, 2014

RoboCop relies for most of its impact -- and, more disturbingly, for much of its comedy -- on an absurd exaggeration of physical force.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2014

A sardonic but perfectly-realised depiction of a mayhem-fuelled near future.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2014

When the law-enforcing RoboCop cleans up corrupt Motown, his victory is satisfying because he's got machinery and morals on his side. RoboCop is where high-tech meets High Noon.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2014

Like the tormented figure at its center, this movie combines the mechanical with the human. And though much of the film is made up of spare parts from cop shows, exploitation flicks and comic books, it nevertheless comes to life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2014

RoboCop set the tone for much of Dutch auteur import Paul Verhoeven's career in America.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 20, 2007

There's a brooding, agonized quality to the violence that almost seems subversive, as if Verhoeven were both appalled and fascinated by his complicity in the toxic action rot.

| Jun 5, 2007

Vile, violent, and very funny. The pace is breakneck, and when the wit does run out, way-out weaponry and whole-scale destruction keep the appalled excitement burning.

| Jun 24, 2006

Whatever may have been in the minds of the writers, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, has more trouble emerging from Mr. Verhoeven's sizzling battles than poor Murphy does from his robosuit.

| May 20, 2003

RoboCop is as tightly worked as a film can be, not a moment or line wasted.

| Feb 13, 2001

Great effects and a nasty undercurrent drive this vehicle.

| Jan 1, 2000

...Verhoeven strives for bloodcurdling, darkly comic eloquence. He gives us heart with the hardware. Savagery with smarts.

| Jan 1, 2000

...RoboCop is one weird and entertaining hybrid of camp and sci-fi shoot-'em-up.

| Jan 1, 2000

Most thriller and special-effects movies come right off the assembly line...RoboCop is a thriller with a difference.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000