Robocop

[alobear]

The last line of the Empire review (two stars) for Robocop says, "Oh, if it only had a brain."

The first line of the SFX review (four and a half stars) for Robocop says, "The new Robocop has an impressive brain."

How is a girl to know who to believe?  Well, I guess she has to go to the cinema, watch the film and decide for herself.  So I did.

I would place the film somewhere in the middle (three and a quarter stars) and credit it with a middling amount of brain.  I would not go so far as to agree with SFX that "it is an excellent, intelligent SF drama" but I also don't agree with Empire that it has "No heart, no balls, no funny bone."

I agree with SFX that Michael Keaton and Gary Oldman were both excellent, particularly the latter - so much so that, towards the end, he totally convinced me, along with Michael Keaton's character of something that turned out to be a complete bluff.  But I also agree with Empire that Samuel L Jackson was less than stellar.

I mostly enjoyed it, but it's not something I would go out of my way to recommend.

Comments

[prunesquallormd]

Obviously I saw the first one years ago. Probably the fact that it kind of left me cold shouldn't prejudice me against the remake, but it kind of does.
I do like Gary Oldman though. He's always worth watching :)

(I don't know if you know, but this post and the 'Fault in Our Stars' review didn't post to LJ :)).