Robocop
U/A: Action
Dir: Jose Padilha
Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman
Rating: ** 1/2

There are two shocking things in the new Robocop movie — a) It’s way better than you expect it to be, and b) It’s quite different from the original movie. Now the problem is, with that shock value comfortably delivered to the viewer in the first ten minutes, it fails to make use of the opportunity to become a great movie. Instead, it slips through the trapdoor of clichés, poor writing, lame characterisation, and just insufficient action mayhem.