In a lawless future where law enforcement has been privatised, the Detroit Police Force put a mutilated officer's body into a steel exto-skeleton to produce Robocop, an armour plated crime-fighter whose computer brain has been programmed to obey certain principles. When the human side of Robocop realises the head of the law corporation is in league with the villains who killed him, he has to battle the gangs, his programming and his own creators. A brilliantly black comic-strip from director Paul Verhoven (Basic Instinct / Starship Troopers), mixing deft social satire with a totally believable near future and devastatingly violent set-pieces. Peter Weller is excellent as the cop-in-a-can, his human side trying to break through, with excellent support from Kurtwood Smith as a thoroughly hateful villain and Miguel Ferrer as an equally disreputable corporation man.