I finally got around to watching the remake of the original 1987 film, Robocop. What made this film unique was that it was the first remake I have ever watched of a film that I actually gave a damn about.
The original film is darkly humorous and one of my top 3 films of all time, along with Aliens and Platoon.
While the remake doesnt get too much wrong, it failed on the key areas that made the original special.
It had no humour, it didnt seem to have a dark side to it. It attempted to play to the current status quo rather than hark back to the corporation themes of the original. The was no blood, no gratuitous and unnecessary violence.
Put simply the film had nothing new to say. I quite like the change in focus from the original script and focus more on the family side of things, but Peter Weller will always be Robocop.
