RoboCop (2014)

Most people think so. 71% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 51%.

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. Wikipedia ↗

RoboCop is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Jose Padilha, a remake of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic. Joel Kinnaman stars as Alex Murphy, a Detroit police detective who is critically injured by a car bomb and transformed by the multinational corporation OmniCorp into RoboCop — a cyborg law enforcement officer intended to demonstrate the viability of robotic policing to the American public. Unlike the original's over-the-top satire, the remake took a more grounded approach, exploring the philosophical and ethical implications of merging human consciousness with robotic control — particularly the tension between Murphy's programmed directives and his human memories, emotions, and free will.

Gary Oldman's performance as the conflicted scientist Dr. Dennett Norton, who must balance his empathy for Murphy's suffering against corporate pressure, was the film's strongest element. Samuel L.

Jackson appeared as a bombastic media personality modeled on cable news pundits. RoboCop earned $242 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.