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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The bad guy’s name is Dick Jones. The super killer robot is defeated by a flight of stairs. A man falls in a vat of toxic waste and is instantly turned into a mutant fish creature thing and THEN he’s hit by a car and is instantly liquefied like he’s a human water balloon.

  God, I love Paul Verhoeven.

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★★ 11

  Out of all the amazing, perfect things in this, by far the coolest is that the leader of the hardest gang in Detroit is a balding, middle-aged white guy with glasses who looks like a high school principal, and it totally works. Clarence Boddicker 4 Life. The GOAT movie villain.

  Make sure if you can to get the extended "Director's Cut" which only features an extra gloriously gratuitous 10-15 seconds of that OCP executive getting absolutely shredded by gunfire. Trust me, it's worth it.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 7

  "When people jerk me off, I kill them!"

  Masterpiece. Looks great, score rules, satire is absolutely on point all the way down. That employee's excitement as their boss is about to be shot through the window. "Lee Iacocca Elementary School" as a throwaway detail. I'd buy that for $3.99 with a 30-day window to start watching with a 48-hour period before expiring upon pressing play!

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★

  leland palmer jumpscare

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★ 8

  Whenever I hear people say this is dated I want to slap the nonsense out of them. A company that profits on privatized public sectors taking over a bankrupt Detroit in order to pave the way for an ultra-gentrified wealth haven? This shit could have been made yesterday, and I bet the new one won't feel half as relevant the weekend it comes out as this does 27 years later.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½

  I'd buy that for a dollar!

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★ 1

  Reagan era economics, corporate privatization of public services, and of course militarization of police wrapped into an ultraviolent sleazy pulp satire—that this is still as politically relevant as ever is terrifying.

  Full discussion on episode 10 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.

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  Review by Matthew Christman ★★★★½ 4

  The Soul of Man Under Capitalism

  I've seen this a million times, as all Americans should be required to by law, but on this viewing, I realized what's the best shot in the movie. While Robo is drilling Dick Jones with a million bullets, the camera cuts away to Bob Morton's middle-manager buddy ("tastes like baby food" guy) getting out of his chair, grinning. Sure, he's happy the guy who killed his friend is getting what for, but he's also anticipating Jones' vacancy in the corporate hierarchy. Cannibals, All!

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 20

  Verhoeven's masterpiece.
  A true eighties classic;
  an extraordinary director at the very top of his game.
  I cannot believe this was my first time seeing it.

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  Review by COBRARocky ★★★★★ 11

  An inspiring tale of how a handicapped man returns to, and excels in, the workforce.

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½

  I like when Robocop goes to the club

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★★★★ 5

  This movie is violent, vulgar and schlocky. Our protaganist, played by a Peter Weller, is introduced and killed within 20 minutes, graphically blown apart by a criminal gang. One character, near the end of the film, is maimed by toxic waste and killed when a car hits him and he explodes. But this isn't gratuitous violence; it exists in dialogue with story and theme. Robocop takes place in a future Detroit where crime is out of control and the police are unable to restore order. A megacorporation "partners" with law enforcement, using the crisis to develop and sell new military equipment, including combat robots meant to take the place of beat cops. The company will clean up the streets, turn…