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2014 · action · sci-fi · thriller · music

RoboCop

Directed by José Padilha1h 58m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.1248kRT50%Metacritic52
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • tender
  • twisty
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

Our read · RoboCop (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a slick cyborg remake wrestling with humanity versus machines.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 3/5earns its length
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Skip it tonightYou love the 1987 original and cannot tolerate a softer PG-13 take.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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