Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is a prophetic masterpiece about the vampiric corporate presence creating crime and destroying nonprofit &/or government entities such as the police force in a bankrupt Detroit. I forgot how completely awesome this movie was even with some of the dated technology. RoboCop makes a convincing dystopian future-every square foot is filled with madness and violence from the filthy streets to the pristine boardrooms. All life regardless of economic status is cheap-from the executive to the cop on the beat, but Verhoeven makes us feel each death of even unseen characters as a name is removed from a locker. Verhoeven also accurately portrays the struggle of public servants: salty frustration at the destruction of resources and undermining of their ability to continue to do their job, but still going forward because it isn’t just a job. They are willing to sacrifice their lives for the duty of upholding integrity and justice. I’m surprised that more people haven’t remarked that RoboCop is a brilliant reimagining of Frankenstein’s Monster from his point of view. Peter Weller does an outstanding job especially considering that he is mostly covered for the entire film. I remembered very little of this movie except Kurtwood Smith as the iconic and terrifying brutal, merciless gang leader and his psychotic henchmen. Let us not forgot that Verhoeven can’t make a movie without a brash, tough blond who goes against type who is played by Nancy Allen. Verhoeven fully populates this dystopian world with a complete popular culture landscape: 6000 Sux, “I’d buy that for a dollar,” Nukem and casual news broadcasts indicating that a space laser accidentally killed a bunch of people, including a number of former presidents. Unlike the remake, the goal of this Robocop is that by reasserting the humanity/individuality in one corporate product/cog in a government bureaucracy, it begins to heal the broader problems throughout society.