Robocop

Actors:  Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbuie Cornish, Jackie Earl Haley

Rating:  7 out of 10, The original movie was something of an event when I took my very young (alright way too young) son to see it.  He doesn’t seem too damaged by this parental failure.  The new one is glossy and all CGIed up but it lacks the heart and visceral violence of the original.  There were some exciting sequences but invariably interspersed with some absolute plodding.  The resulting stop and go reaches whiplash level pain.  The new Robocop had issues covering up his Euro-accent but the rest of the cast was good.  There was a heavy handed, anti-American message in TV host Samuel L. Jackson’s character (who got in his signature M.F. with only a few seconds to spare).  I’m probably too hard on this because the original had so many fond memories, but this wasn’t nearly as good and a PG-14 Robocop is just too safe.

MVP:  Oldman as the Robocop creator