Robocop

This week the wheel takes us to 1987’s RoboCop — Paul Verhoeven’s ultra-violent, darkly satirical sci-fi action classic that somehow manages to be both a brutal action movie and a razor-sharp critique of corporate America.Set in a dystopian near-future Detroit where crime is out of control, the powerful mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract to privatize the police force. After idealistic officer Alex Murphy is brutally murdered by a gang of criminals, OCP resurrects him as RoboCop — a heavily armed, cybernetic law-enforcement machine programmed to serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and uphold the law.But fragments of Murphy’s humanity begin to surface, and as RoboCop tracks down the gang that killed him, he also uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of OCP.Music brought to you by Dixon Hill Beats