1 of 10
Cinematography by Sol Negrin
Peter Weller
Nancy Allen
Ronny Cox
Kurtwood Smith
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
| Robocop 1 of 10 |
||||||
| Directed by Paul Verhoeven Cinematography by Sol Negrin Peter Weller Nancy Allen Ronny Cox Kurtwood Smith |
||||||
| Ugh! Is it possible to wash your mind out with soap? Or your memory, at least? Because I really need it after watching this trash. This film has a cult following, and that's a good thing for it. If it didn't have one, no one would ever watch it more than once. Paul Verhoeven is a joke. I should have expected that going in, based on his track record: Starship Troopers, Hollow Man, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and the incomparable Showgirls. But I must have been a little blinded by the rabid enthusiasm of the film's fan base. Essentially, this is very, very bad film making. Considered one of the first of the hyper-violent action flicks, there is one fact that separates it from any of its followers: it has no redeeming characteristics. I have a pretty strong stomach for violence in films, and even for relatively pointless violence. But now I know that I don't like "absolutely-positively-no-reason-for-any-of-this-except-to-try-and-gross-people-out" violence. Please. I don't like films that make me think that the director thinks the viewer is an idiot. And that is the feeling you get from watching this. Verhoeven must figure that no one in the audience has a brain, so they won't notice how fake and gratuitous all the violence is. Plus, he must figure that there is no need for him to make any kind of effort to get a shred of performance out of anyone in his cast. Definitely one of the worst films I have ever seen. | ||||||