RoboCop
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 12, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
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Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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14
Mixed:
21
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 11, 2014
RoboCop is no canned remake of the 1987 action film. It's a reimagining that responds to everything that has changed in American life over the past 27 years, addressing new threats and exploiting new anxieties. Read full review
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 12, 2014
As viscerally exciting as Padilha's RoboCop can be, the movie is elevated by serious considerations of the ethics of using robots as guardians (shades of drones), commercialism, playing God with science, and what being human is about. Read full review
80
Total FilmRichard JordanFeb 5, 2014
Taking the original and successfully transplanting it into an ambitious new world, José Padilha’s english-language debut is an exciting, pacey and thoughtful sci-fi actioner. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 12, 2014
Jose Padilha's Robocop reboot does some of the things a good remake should do: it retains the central ideas and themes of the original while updating and rearranging the narrative to lose a derivative feel. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 12, 2014
This movie comes at you with an idea or two, as well as every available gun blazing. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaFeb 12, 2014
RoboCop is a solid near-future action pic that poses moral questions about artificial intelligence and remote-control combat systems without getting too preachy or ponderous about it. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 12, 2014
This RoboCop earns its stripes, mostly for the seriousness with which it treats its Frankenstein story. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle SmithFeb 11, 2014
RoboCop is topically up-to-the-moment but stylistically it’s retro. Far from using the story as an excuse to string together cheap thrills and blowout spectacle, its hero has all the heart of the Tin Man. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 13, 2014
It’s a rare “reboot” that transcends its studio’s money-grubbing. It has some Big Ideas. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 5, 2014
It’s a less playful enterprise than the original, but meets the era’s darker demands for action reboots with machine-tooled efficiency and a hint of soul. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFeb 12, 2014
The film has lots of energized mayhem, and Murphy's unraveling of the conspiracy against him isn't dumbed down, yet it's as if the comic-book action poetry of the original has been encased in a suit of generic armor. Read full review
67
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonFeb 5, 2014
There are enough rough edges and interesting kinks across the two-hour running time that you come out forgiving it for the more generic elements, though we'll acknowledge that the flaws might stick out more on a second viewing, when you're not just pleasantly surprised that the whole thing isn't a stinking mess. Read full review
66
Film.comWilliam GossFeb 12, 2014
RoboCop has sound and fury to spare and even an inspired idea or two lurking beneath that polished exterior, but much like its upgraded namesake, this watchable mess ultimately lacks a prime directive to call its own. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyFeb 12, 2014
Though this RoboCop can’t come close to capturing the clever-silly audacity of the original, one area in which the current film easily surpasses it is in the quality of the cast. Read full review
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