RoboCop
A critically wounded Detroit police officer becomes OmniCorp’s prototype cyborg enforcer while fighting to preserve his humanity and pursue justice.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Moderate
- tense
- earnest
- cerebral
- action movie night
- science fiction marathon
What critics said
Critics generally found the remake competent and intermittently intelligent, with polished effects and a strong cast but less wit, satire, and distinctive personality than the 1987 original.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
OmniCorp seeks to bring military drones and a commercial RoboCop program into American policing for shareholder profit.
Alex Murphy remains emotionally and morally human while OmniCorp reconstructs and markets him as a part-man, part-robot officer.
The film presents Detroit through robotic weapons, corporate laboratories, police technology, and a future shaped by security commercialization.
The 2014 production updates the earlier RoboCop concept with flashier effects, a PG-13 action register, and less overtly satirical presentation.
Films like RoboCop, and why
RoboCop
shares cyberpunk dystopia, corporate power, cyborg identity, police action, and philosophical questions about human autonomy
Elysium
shares near-future surveillance technology, militarized robotics, corporate control, and a conflicted human-machine protagonist
Upgrade
shares transhumanist science fiction, corporate technological ambition, and questions about consciousness and bodily identity
Judge Dredd
shares police-centered dystopian science fiction, privatized authority, and action-driven social commentary
Movie Details
- Director
- José Padilha
- Release Date
- 2014-01-30
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 (6016)
Cast
- Joel Kinnaman
- Gary Oldman
- Michael Keaton
- Abbie Cornish
- Jackie Earle Haley
- Michael Kenneth Williams
- Jennifer Ehle
- Jay Baruchel
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Samuel L. Jackson
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand, Plex
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is RoboCop about?
- A critically wounded Detroit police officer becomes OmniCorp’s prototype cyborg enforcer while fighting to preserve his humanity and pursue justice.
- What is RoboCop like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of RoboCop as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is RoboCop violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in RoboCop as moderate.
- What did critics think of RoboCop?
- Critics generally found the remake competent and intermittently intelligent, with polished effects and a strong cast but less wit, satire, and distinctive personality than the 1987 original.
- Which films are like RoboCop?
- Films with a similar feel include RoboCop, Elysium, Upgrade, and Judge Dredd.
- How long is RoboCop?
- RoboCop runs 118 minutes.
- Where can I watch RoboCop?
- In United States, RoboCop streams on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
