RoboCop [4K Ultra-HD] [Limited Edition] [Blu-ray]

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Set in a crime-ridden Detroit sometime in the near future, the film follows police officer Alex Murphy, who is brutally murdered by a criminal gang.

As he did years later with ' Starship Troopers,' the Dutch filmmaker wonderfully balances camp and vulgarity for the blackest of comedic effect with the excessive displays of ultra-violence.The filmmakers intentionally turn his catchphrase into a rather memorable motto while also serving as a clever reference to Cyril M. I'm not sure if MGM took the time to also remaster the audio, but for all intents and purposes, this DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack sounds nearly identical to its predecessor. It's funny looking back at something like Paul Verhoeven's 'RoboCop' and watching it in complete awe of the shockingly prophetic vision of the future being displayed. That trends continues with Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop, which was issued on two-disc Blu-ray in 2019 and now comes to 4K in an identical edition packaged in a nice SteelBook case.

Among the bonus content is a new feature-length documentary, Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf, by filmmaker Daniel Griffith, which includes interviews with Landis, Naughton, Joe Dante and more key players, and a lengthy interview with Landis, An American Filmmaker in London, in which he reflects on British cinema and his time working in Britain. The box set also comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original poster art and artwork by Graham Humphreys, a double-sided fold-out poster, six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproductions, and a limited-edition 60-page book featuring new writing by Craig Ian Mann and Simon Ward, archival articles and original reviews. On the other hand, the edited-for-television cut definitely looks its age despite being an HD presentation, showing blown-out highlights, flat black levels and poorly resolved while bathed in distracting chroma noise.In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology.

The remaster to 4K is well done except on some of the added scenes where there is a noticeable drop which I would say is down to the source material.Aside from those moments, the ceiling channels are relatively quiet, preserving the action across the fronts where it really belongs. With a cynical, satirical eye on Reagan-era American culture, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop imagines a dystopian future where a corporation owns and controls a police department. Inside an attractive cardboard box featuring new cover art, a pair of triple-layered UHD100 discs are housed in a black keepcase with a center spindle holding the Director's Cut disc while the opposing panel comfortably holds the Theatrical Cut disc, and both are joined by six collector's postcards and a sticker.

Suffice it to say that there’s an enormous amount of bonus content found here, with a big batch of new extras that were created for the 2019 release along with a lot of legacy content that was ported over too. From VHS to Laserdisc to DVD, and the first two Blu-ray releases, RoboCop could look somewhat decent or like a complete dog. In fact, facial complexions, for the most part, appear natural and quite revealing, exposing the tiniest wrinkle and blemish during close-ups. From an original script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, the film takes a cynical view of the future right from the onset with the deliberately rocky opening of a newscast relating the day's terrible events with noticeable detachment and unconcerned smiling faces. The one-minute difference from the theatrical version (103 minutes versus 102 minutes) is simply more blood and gore — a few frames edited to appease the MPAA, which makes this cut slightly more violent but not by very much.This month, an all-time classic trilogy gets a lavish new box set, one of the pillars of science fiction cinema is shown in a whole new light, and one of horror’s gnarliest entries is given a scrub up and a fresh release. For more about RoboCop 4K and the RoboCop 4K Blu-ray release, see RoboCop 4K Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on April 12, 2022 where this Blu-ray release scored 4. Unaware of his former life, RoboCop executes a brutal campaign against crime all the while his humanity is slipping away. In addition, Arrow was able to source a new 4K scan of the extra footage found in the Director’s Cut, so those moments look better than they previously did. The new release includes a 4K restoration of the film, which you can watch with both the original and alternate endings, all presented in 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray.