ROBOCOP (M)
Directed by Jose Padilha
Screenplay by Joshua Zetumer
Generation Xers beware – this isn’t the ballad of Detroit policeman Alex Murphy you remember.
For while this sci-fi actioner might share the same moniker as Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 teen video-rental favourite, B-Movie classic and strangle its prescient storyline (Detroit really did go bankrupt, didn’t it), it’s a very different tale of a “tin man”. But surprisingly Brazilian director’s Jose Padilha’s (Elite Squad) take is arguably a vast improvement, displaying far more heart, brain and no little courage in
