An average movie

Honestly, I didn’t think it was so bad actually. The point is that I went to see it with some rather low expectations and that’s probably why I didn’t think it was too underwhelming. First of all, I really enjoyed Joel Kinnaman. Indeed, I thought he had a great charisma and it was nice that they took some time to show him as a police officer before he becomes Robocop. Unfortunately, that’s probably the only thing they really got right. I mean, there were many good things, but probably too many of them actually. The whole thing tries to be a futuristic action flick, a familly drama, a political thriller and also a satire, that was just way too much to handled and all of those ideas were rather half-baked. Personally, I don’t think that the original movie directed by Paul Verhoeven (I prefer ‘Total Recall’) was that great but Verhoeven definitely managed to mix all those genres together very well whereas, with this remake, they kept switching from one thing to another, hoping that we wouldn’t notice all the plot holes and the very weak script. Apparently, José Padilha (who made the amazing ‘Tropa de Elite’) didn’t get much freedom from the studio which couldn’t make up their mind if they wanted a brainless and badass action flick or something more thoughtfull. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, it remains a really intriguing story and I still think it is worth a look but don’t expect anything really amazing.

6/10