Not as good as the old Robocop

not as good as the original movie, but still ok/good by today's lowered standards in movies.

Dead or alive, RoboCop gets rebooted. This new vision of RoboCop is more sci-fi and dramatic, and lacks the satirical edge of Verhoeven’s original. Seeking to qualm the public’s fears over law enforcement drones, OmniCorp puts multiple amputee and Detroit police detective Alex Murphy into a robotic suit; dubbing him RoboCop. Dealing with issues of a person’s humanity and automated security, the film is rather provocative. However, newcomer Joel Kinnaman gives an underwhelming performance as Murphy/RoboCop, and the plot is a little unfocused. While this new version of RoboCop delivers an action-packed and entertaining adventure, overall it ends up being fairly generic.

The IP weighs it down. It set itself up to be inferior but in a vacuum its a decent movie.

Other than the stop-motion ED-209, which was nothing short of awesome, I never considered the original "Robocop" to be all that great. I don't have a lot of nostalgia toward it. I was 23 and all grown up (mostly) when I first saw it. It was campy and gory, which is all fine, but it was not "Total Recall" or "Predator". So watching this new version didn't ruin my memory of the original. Joel Kinnaman was nothing special but anything with Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton in it is going to be enjoyable because you get the pleasure of watching them. I did get a kick out of RoboCop battling several ED-209 robots, which was really all I needed to see.