RoboCop (2014)

RoboCop rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.1/10· 248K votes

Rotten Tomatoes50%

Metacritic52%

TMDb5.884/10· 6K votes

With 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.1/10 on IMDb and 52/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About RoboCop

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

Cast of RoboCop

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  Joel Kinnaman

  as Alex Murphy / RoboCop

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  Gary Oldman

  as Dr. Dennett Norton

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  Michael Keaton

  as Raymond Sellars

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  Abbie Cornish

  as Clara Murphy

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  Jackie Earle Haley

  as Rick Mattox

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  Michael Kenneth Williams

  as Jack Lewis

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  Jennifer Ehle

  as Liz Kline

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  Jay Baruchel

  as Tom Pope

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  Marianne Jean-Baptiste

  as Chief Karen Dean

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  as Pat Novak

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  Aimee Garcia

  as Jae Kim

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  Douglas Urbanski

  as Mayor Durant

RoboCop facts

Budget

$120M

Box office

$242.7M

Our take on RoboCop

José Padilha's 2014 reboot of the science-fiction action franchise unfolds in 2028, where multinational giant OmniCorp dominates robot technology and has long deployed drones abroad for the military. Barred from putting that machinery to work in American law enforcement, the corporation spies its opening when Alex Murphy — a devoted husband, father and honest Detroit cop battling crime and corruption — is critically injured. OmniCorp seizes the chance to build a part-man, part-robot officer, and the film weighs corporate ambition, media spin and what remains of a man rebuilt as a machine. It suits viewers who like effects-driven sci-fi action with a satirical edge and questions about identity and control, over pure spectacle.