hat’s what the head- 
     
     bragged. Well, how 
     
     d I resist such a calling? 
     
     i-fi movie reputed to 
     
     some real gory scenes. 
     
     eat evening’s entertain- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘Give us 3 minutes, 
     
     we'll give you the 
     
     d” the evening news 
     
     deast commences with 
     
     d story “South Africa 
     
     the nuclear bomb”. 
     
     er to home, there is a 
     
     e wave of epidemic pro- 
     
     ions sweeping across 
     
    
   
   
    
     United States. In this 
     
     future newscast, Cop- 
     
     s are the big ticket. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Murphy (Peter Weller) 
     
    

    
     rugged individual of 
     
     oliceman, starts of his 
     
     as a real law en- 
     
     er.’ Leaving the police 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
          
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     station in a turbocruiser, he 
     
     and partner Lewis (Nancy 
     
     Allen) chase after an ar- 
     
     mored car driven by the 
     
    
   
   
    
     “bad guys.” Murphy and 
     
     Lewis, up against 5 men 
     
     with high powered artillary, 
     
     use their pistols with little 
     
     luck. By the time Murphy 
     
     is about to cuff & stuff the 
     
     ring leader, his backup is 
     
     down and out, and the rest 
     
     of the gang are surround- 
     
     ing him. It’s a very sadis- 
     
     tic game of target shooting 
     
     that the “bad guys” have 
     
     with Murphy. Surprisingly, 
     
     they never hit his head. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The body of Officer 
     
     Murphy is whisked into a 
     
     special lab in the local hos- 
     
     pital where they try to 
     
     save his life. When all at- 
     
     tempts fail, Morton orders 
     
     his remaining appendages 
     
     removed, and Murphy is 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Peter Weller as RoboCop 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     > “Part man, part machine, all cop” 
     
    
   
   
    
     declared the host for the 
     
     first RoboCop. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Peter Weller, the star, 
     
     is toted as the greatest 
     
     actor since rabbits multi- 
     
     plied. Well, aside from 
     
     a respectable list of musi- 
     
     cal and theatrical appear- 
     
     ances he has made, he’s by 
     
     far an unknown actor, hav- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing played secondary parts | 
     
    
   
   
    
     in movies like “Butch and 
     
     Sundance: the early years,” 
     
     and “Shoot the Moon.” 
     
     And as far as his acting 
     
     goes in RoboCop, just how 
     
     much acting does a robot 
     
     have to do? His four 
     
     months of understudy with 
     
     a mime to learn the motions 
     
     of a robot were well spent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The movie has its good 
     
     moments, and they  be- 
     
     long to Officer Anne Lewis 
     
     (Nancy Allen) and softspo- 
     
     ken villian 
     
     Clarence Botticker (Kurt- 
     
     wood Smith). Both Allen 
     
     and Smith do great jobs. 
     
     Smith is always cool, even 
     
     when being shot at. Allen, 
     
     a star of “1941,” “Carrie,” 
     
     and “Dressed to Kill” had 
     
     to cut her long, flowing hair 
     
     for this film, but she sur- 
     
     vived to deliver some scenes 
     
     worth watching. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It’s a strange mind that 
     
     truly enjoys this movie. It’s 
     
     rated Restricted because of 
     
     its copious amounts of vi- 
     
     olence; there’s no romance 
     
     to be found in this movie. 
     
     Some of the action is so vi- 
     
     olent and bad, that you just 
     
     can’t help laughing. The 
     
    
   
   
    
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     else’s bad luck. As such, 
     
     this movie is a great com- 
     
     edy. 
     
    

    
     Unless I was forced, I 
     
     doubt that I would volun- 
     
     tarily pay money to see 
     
     RoboCop again. I did enjoy 
     
     it to a point the first time. 
     
     Viewers have 2 options, go 
     
     on cheap seat night (Tues- 
     
     days) or wait for the film to 
     
    
   
   
    
     come out on Home Video. 
     
     So many things look bet- 
     
     ter on the Big Screen that 
     
     I would recommend you see 
     
     this movie on a cheap seat 
     
     night. It was recorded us- 
     
     ing Dolby Surround Sound, 
     
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