I should start by mentioning that I don't have the same affinity for Robocop that I do say The Terminator or even Last Action Hero. I didn't grow up with it and literally saw it in full for the first time tonight and I liked it, I liked it quite a bit, but I didn't love it. 

I think the makers of Robocop set out to make the best B-Movie ever made while poking fun at that style of film and they definitely achieved that. It's a great satire of 80's action movies and actually has something to say as there is an overtly anti-capitalist theme running throughout the whole movie.

It's not of the same quality as say the Terminator that's for sure, but I don't think it's trying to be. It's actually a send up of the type of films Schwarzenegger would be starring in around this time.

Here's the thing, I can't mark the film down for having two dimensional characters and stereotypes, I can't mark it down for its cheesy dialogue and over the top, scenery-chewing performances, those are all completely intentional and they all work in its favour. Robocop has some really funny dialogue as the stoic action hero trope is taken to its absolute extreme here, one moment that stood out especially to me was when he saved a potential rape victim and she looks to him for a few comforting words only to be met with the robotic reply of "You are traumatised, I will point you in the direction of a woman's shelter".

Even though it is primarily a satire it does have a few emotional moments, when Murphy begins to remember who he is and describes his memories or lack thereof of his family and says the words "I can remember what they felt like, but I cannot remember them" It's actually a pretty emotive scene in an otherwise fun and purposefully silly movie.

I don't have any negatives to say about it really other than to me it doesn't reach the same classic status that perhaps it does for others as it wasn't a part of my childhood, so I'm not attached to it in the same way that I am say the Nightmare On Elm Street series or the first two Terminator films, but I can absolutely see why people would hold it in such high regard.