RoboCop (2014)

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Movie
German title RoboCop
Original title RoboCop
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director José Padilha
script Nick Schenk
Joshua Zetumer
James Vanderbilt
production Marc Abraham
Gary Barber
Eric Newman
music Pedro Bromfman
camera Lula Carvalho
cut Daniel Rezende
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chronology

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RoboCop is an American science fiction - action film from 2014, in which José Padilha directed. In the remake of the film of the same name from 1987, Joel Kinnaman took on the leading role that gave the title.

action

The multinational mega-corporation OmniCorp will have a global dominance in the market for robot technology, especially in the military sector, in 2028. The group makes gigantic profits from the sale of its globally used drones, but in America itself robots are not allowed to be used for armed security or aggression purposes, which is publicly cemented by a general law drafted by Senator Dreyfus . OmniCorp chairman Raymond Sellars wants to get around this law by offering a cyborg , a human-machine connection, for the domestic market, and to that end he is attracting Dr. Dennett Norton, a specialist in cybernetic prostheses , approached the project.

At the same time, idealistic police officer Alex Murphy tries to fight the rampant crime in his hometown of Detroit . During an operation against an arms dealer named Vallon, however, it emerges that there are corrupt officials in the Detroit Police Department: Vallon sells weapons that were stolen from the Bureau's evidence room , and when Murphy and his partner Lewis try to arrest Vallon during an undercover operation , he is warned and is able to escape while Lewis is seriously injured. Since Murphy, despite these setbacks and the advice of his superiors, Captain Dean, does not give up, Vallon and the corrupt police officers decide to eliminate him with an explosive device. Murphy barely survives the attack, but is so critically injured that only a complete cybernetic transformation could save him. Despite many doubts, Murphy's wife, Clara, decides to advocate the necessary surgical process, and OmniCorp is using Murphy as a prototype for her program.

Three months later, Murphy wakes up from anesthesia and finds himself in the metallic shell of a cyborg. After a first spontaneous panic reaction, he can gradually come to terms with his current situation, and he is then tested for combat missions. Since he still reacts too emotionally to the OmniCorp board of directors and therefore appears "inefficient" in their eyes, Sellars demands, despite Norton's protests, that Murphy's emotional capacities and thus his humanity be suppressed. Murphy eventually returns to Detroit and his family, but when he is being prepared for his first public appearance at the local police headquarters - which includes downloading critical police records and looking at the city's camera surveillance system - Murphy suffers Having a nervous breakdown while reviewing the video of the attack on his own life, and Dr. Norton is forced by the OmniCorp board of directors to switch off its emotions completely in order not to endanger the company's press image. Mattox, a cynical OmniCorp weapons instructor, is also called in to remotely take Murphy down if Sellars thinks he ever gets out of hand.

By interfering with his personality, Murphy behaves more like a machine than a human and does his job as a policeman completely emotionless, but his family and the recovered Lewis quickly notice his changed behavior. In order to avoid unpleasant questions and thus bad press, Sellars decides to isolate Murphy from his family, but Clara does not give up and finally manages to meet her husband on the way to a mission and explain to him that her son David is through the absence of his father is exposed to immense emotional pressure. Her incantations reawaken Murphy's human side, and he begins to research his own case on his own. He manages to turn off Vallon and his organization and convict Captain Dean as the head of the corrupt police officers in the department, but in the middle of an attempt to get them to confess, he is turned off by Mattox.

With the success of the RoboCop project, the Dreyfus Act is on the verge of tipping over in the face of changing public opinion. Since Murphy has become a risk factor for the prospective billion dollar business through his reawakened humanity, and because he wants to manipulate public opinion in favor of OmniCorp even more by portraying him as a tragic hero, Sellars orders the elimination of Murphys and tries with clever lies and great promises, to buy the silence of Clara and Norton. Norton just pretends to do it, returns to the lab and reactivates Murphy just as OmniCorp security is about to shut him down. Murphy then goes after Sellars, while Norton in turn briefs Officer Lewis of the matter. Murphy breaks into the OmniCorp building and, with Lewis' help from the Company's security droids and Mattox, fights his way through while Sellars prepares his helicopter escape. When he hears of Murphy's arrival, he has Clara and David, who have not yet been able to leave the building after their conversation, brought to him so that they can be used as leverage in an emergency.

Before Sellars can escape, Murphy appears on the landing platform and tries to arrest him, but a security transmitter on Sellars' wrist makes it impossible for him to point his weapon at the company chairman. Sellars confidently sells his protection by pointing his weapon at Clara and David, but this arouses Murphy's anger, who then overcomes the programmed lock and shoots Sellars before he collapses exhausted. In the course of these events and the statements of Dr. Norton will not overturn the Dreyfus Act and thus prevent mass production of the RoboCop program in its own country. Murphy, restored to full functionality by Norton, is reunited with his family before becoming the only cyborg policeman to continue his duty in the city.

production

Director Darren Aronofsky was commissioned by MGM and Phoenix Pictures in 2008 to make a new RoboCop film that will serve as the starting point for another series of films. On January 5, 2010, the website "Moviehole" reported that the remake planned for 2011 has been stopped for the time being. After the immense success of James Cameron's film Avatar - Departure to Pandora , MGM decided to shoot the new RoboCop film in 3D. Due to MGM's financial situation and differences of opinion between the studio and Aronofsky, the project was initially on hold.

On February 18, 2011, MGM announced that it still had plans for a RoboCop remake. On March 2, 2011 it was announced that instead of Darren Aronofsky, the Brazilian director José Padilha , who became known with the film Tropa de Elite , would be involved .

In 2012, MGM announced that the screenplay would be written by screenwriter Nick Schenk ( Gran Torino ). The main role was played by the Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman . Gary Oldman was named for the role of scientist and RoboCop creator Dr. Norton committed. Samuel L. Jackson embodies the powerful TV mogul Pat Novak. Actor Michael Keaton took on the role of Raymond Sellars .

The film opened in US cinemas on February 12, 2014.

During the shoot, José Padilha expressed dissatisfaction several times with the collaboration with the producers, as many of the scenes he staged were rejected.

marketing

The first pictures of the set and the vehicle appeared on the Internet on September 16, 2012. A first teaser photo followed a day later. The first pictures of the RoboCop motorcycle appeared on October 14, 2012. On October 9, 2012, more set photos were published on the Internet. A video with Joel Kinnaman on his motorcycle was posted on YouTube on October 22, 2012 .

publication

On March 9, 2012, it was announced that MGM was planning to release the remake in American theaters on August 9, 2013, but the date was set for February 2014 in October 2012. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on February 6, 2014.

criticism

The opinions of the critics were mixed. At Metacritic , the film only achieved an average rating of 52% (“mixed or average reviews”), based on 41 reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , the average rating was 49%, based on 166 reviews.

The film service saw a “superficial remake of the science fiction classic of the same name by Paul Verhoeven, which gives up the ambivalence of the original in favor of a pure material battle and also disappoints in terms of acting.” The film received positive reviews from, among other things, film releases , the Padilha's remake a “multifaceted and entertaining reinterpretation of the material ”. Variety praised the critical references to current American politics. Sascha Westphal from epd Film also reviewed the film very positively and praised Padilha for the “focus on the human side, on Murphy's grief, on the hopes and disappointments of his wife Clara (...) and on Dr. Norton's inner conflict ”. The Hollywood Reporter reviewer was more critical of the film, which was not nearly as "ambiguous" as the original.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Age rating for RoboCop . Youth Media Commission .
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  4. ↑ Robocop Frozen ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Moviehole.net, accessed March 26, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moviehole.net
  5. ↑ MGM Remaking Poltergeist, Mr. Mom, Robocop at IMDb.com, accessed April 3, 2011
  6. ↑ Jose Padilha in Talks to Direct Robocop Remake at IMDb.com, accessed April 3, 2011
  7. ^ New Writer Takes Aim at RoboCop Remake at dreadcentral.com, accessed February 3, 2014
  8. ↑ How Sony / MGM Just Let 'RoboCop' Become a Flop Through Inaction. firstshowing.net, September 17, 2012, accessed October 30, 2012 .
  9. ↑ First set pictures for 'RoboCop'. MovieReporter.de, September 16, 2012, accessed October 9, 2012 .
  10. ↑ First picture of Joel Kinnaman in the new "Robocop" dress. September 17, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012 .
  11. ^ Teaser poster for 'RoboCop'. MovieReporter.de, September 17, 2012, accessed October 29, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Robocop gets a real runabout. MovieJones, October 16, 2012, accessed October 29, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Easy rider! Robocop star Joel Kinnaman is at one with his motorbike as he films action scenes for remake. DailyMail, October 14, 2012, accessed October 29, 2012 .
  14. ↑ New set photos for 'RoboCop'. MovieReporter.de, October 9, 2012, accessed October 19, 2012 .
  15. ↑ Spontaneously appeared: Robocop and his bike in a new set video. MovieJones, October 22, 2012, accessed October 29, 2012 .
  16. ^ Finally a Date for When the New RoboCop Will Roll Off of the Assembly Line. DreadCentral, March 9, 2012, accessed October 29, 2012 .
  17. ↑ “Robocop” only in 2014 - “Elysium” becomes a summer blockbuster. MovieJones, October 16, 2012, accessed October 29, 2012 .
  18. ↑ RoboCop at Metacritic (English)
  19. ↑ RoboCop at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  20. ^ RoboCop review by Filmdienst at Filmdienst.de, February 19, 2014
  21. ^ RoboCop review of Filmstarts at Filmstart.de, February 5, 2014
  22. ^ A smarter-than-expected remake at Variety.com, February 5, 2014
  23. ^ Review by epd Film at epd-film.de, February 19, 2014
  24. ↑ RoboCop: Film Review at HollywoodReporter, com, February 5, 2014