RoboCop
Movie • 1987 • Action
ReportIn a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
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Is someone stalked?
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Kind of--RoboCop goes to great lengths to look up information on his killers and tracks them down
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Absolutely. Two men terrorize a woman and as she’s screaming and crying. They hold her, use a knife to cut her hair, and try to take advantage of her. It was too much for me.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Drunk people are seen partying, but we don't actually see them drink anything.
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I don’t know another section to use for this fact, but be warned: when ED-209 falls down a flight of steps and can’t stand up, it releases blood-curdling screams that sound like screaming pigs. According to the sound team behind the scenes, they used real pig screams from a slaughterhouse to achieve the sound. So, while not harmed for the film, if you don’t want to hear real pigs suffering and dying, you will want to skip this scene. It is a haunting noise.
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Is rape mentioned?
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One of the villains has a rape charge against him.
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A woman is nearly raped, however the would-be rapist is subdued by being shot.
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A man jokes that nobody popped his cherry after he gets out of jail.
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Are any hands damaged?
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A mans hand blown off by a shotgun
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Boddicker dies this way.
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RoboCop chokes Boddicker after the warehouse shootout before his programming causes him to let go.
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Is there body horror?
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Kinney is obliterated as ED-209 malfunctions and shoots him. It's extremely bloody and graphic.
Murphy's death is very graphic. His hand is shot off point blank and he is shot many times by Boddicker and his gang before Boddicker shoots him point blank in the head.
Emil crashes into a vat of toxic liquid. He emerges out of it with his body already corroding. His skin is seen melting off of him. He staggers around in anguish until Boddicker runs into him with a car and his body splatters all over the windshield.
Boddicker is stabbed in the neck by RoboCop and blood gushes from his wound as he dies.
Murphy's death is very graphic. His hand is shot off point blank and he is shot many times by Boddicker and his gang before Boddicker shoots him point blank in the head.
Emil crashes into a vat of toxic liquid. He emerges out of it with his body already corroding. His skin is seen melting off of him. He staggers around in anguish until Boddicker runs into him with a car and his body splatters all over the windshield.
Boddicker is stabbed in the neck by RoboCop and blood gushes from his wound as he dies.
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A man's hand, and then his arm are graphically blown off by a shotgun. Said scene is reduced in the theatrical cut a decent amount, but the director's cut shows it in full detail.
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A would-be r* pist is shot in the junk.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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RoboCop has what looks like a seizure when he's dreaming of Murphy's murder
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A man’s hand is shot off
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A cop is brutalized by having his hand, and then arm blown off, before having his body shot into a mess, while screaming. He is finally finished off with a gory headshot as he moans in agony. The theatrical cut obscures some of the worst parts, but it is still quite graphic. Later in the film a man is shot in the leg four times as a form of torture by the villain, but this is much less graphic than the first example.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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ED-209 is defeated in this way, as the giant robot cannot properly maneuver down stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Yes RoboCop killed the villain by shooting him four times then he fell off a high building
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Is someone stabbed?
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Boddicker is stabbed in the neck by RoboCop.
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A man is repeatedly shot as he screams in agony and is then finished off with a graphic headshot. Another scene involves a man who falls into acid. You see his skin starting to melt, and then a man accidentally liquefies him with his car.
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Murphy is brutally killed before he is revived as RoboCop.
Clarence Boddicker is stabbed in the neck by RoboCop.
Dick Jones is shot by RoboCop before falling to his death out of the window directly behind him.
Clarence Boddicker is stabbed in the neck by RoboCop.
Dick Jones is shot by RoboCop before falling to his death out of the window directly behind him.
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Does a non-human character die?
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Do robots count? If so, I can count the ED-209 that Robocop blows up with a military grade weapon.
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Several people die throughout.
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Murphy is both a father and husband and he is killed before he is revived as RoboCop.
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Murphy does not technically die, but after becoming RoboCop he is legally declared dead and his family is unaware that he still lives.
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It's a Verhoeven movie, so there's a coed locker room
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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The opening shot of the movie is of the cityscape and there is a lake.
The final confrontation between RoboCop and Boddicker is in a shallow body of water.
The final confrontation between RoboCop and Boddicker is in a shallow body of water.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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No pooping, some urinating, including a scene set in a communal restroom.
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On the surface, the film appears to be pro-cop propaganda, and some viewers will likely interpret it this way, but the message of the film is very anti-capitalist and rather ambivalent towards law enforcement. They are portrayed as pawns of a big corporation, which culminates when the corporation literally buys the police force and uses their money to create a robot police officer, stripping the main character of his humanity to serve the needs of a corporation.
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very large needle
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Bob Morton has some sex workers over at his home. He snorts cocaine off of one of their chests.
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Is there sexual content?
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A thug does a line of coke out of a hooker's cleavage.
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Significant blood and gore throughout
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Early in the film, the hero is shot several times in a graphic fashion. Gun violence continues throughout.
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