It's a little over two months since the first RoboCop remake trailer landed, and less than two weeks since the arrival of the second. In each, the snippets of footage have served to establish the movie's own version of the 1987 classic's future world, in which robot law enforcers are already patrolling the streets of just about every city on Earth.
After being badly injured by a car bomb, the body of ordinary cop Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is whisked off to the labs at OCP, where it's welded inside a high-tech suit of armour to form RoboCop - the first interface between man and machine, and the new future of law enforcement. It's certainly a twist on the old movie's story, and avoids the decidedly R-rated fate the old Murphy suffered at the hands of the vicious Clarence Boddicker and his gang, and introduces a subtly new idea.
The RoboCop project is a piece of propaganda, with its human underpinning used to reassure an American public nervous about having unfeeling robots patrolling the streets. What the public doesn't know is that Murphy's human personality is being controlled by a series of pre-programmed directives, and that his true nature is essentially enslaved by these tenacious lines of code. But naturally, Murphy's spirit is too strong to be contained by the subroutines of a few computer boffins, and he turns against his corporate masters.
Director Jose Padilha said the following about the movie: "In the future with autonomous robots you can have a robot in the middle of the desert going after terrorists and you don't even know the robot is there, and the robot is making its own decisions. And let's say this robot kills a kid; who is to blame? Is it the company that made the robot, is it the army that deployed the robot, the software handler or the manufacturer? Who is to blame? When you start making machines who make decisions over life and death, something fundamental changes…"
Here's the brand new trailer.
RoboCop is out on the 7th February 2014.
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