Robocop is about Murphy reclaiming his humanity. Cannot agree, and I've touched on this before. ![]() In the end he went farther than Verhoeven did. Though I remember him quoted suggesting that the original was too violent and he wanted to pull it back a bit. I believe Kirshner was hired just before the cameras rolled so it is hard to blame him. The main kid is totally abhorrent and is only there because it is designed to simply be grossly ridiculous.Īll the social commentary is stupidly overt as opposed to cleverly layered as in the first movie. If that was an adult without empathy that works, but kids without empathy is pretty ugly.Ĭlarence felt like a real cutthroat criminal or gangster where Kain feels like a over the top cartoon character. ![]() It tries to present horrific cartoony violence as funny and falls on its face every time, for example the little league team beating the store owner with a bat. It thinks it has carte blanche to be gross but isn't able to earn its grossness and tries to make light of it in the moment coming off cruel as opposed to funny. It is way uglier as it seems to wallow in how disgusting it is.
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