Or perhaps the "true" icing on the cake is RoboCop's bizarre contempt for its own genre conventions: that's to say, this is an action movie that delivers not a single memorable, interesting or innovative action sequence. There is literally nothing on display here that you haven't seen before - worst still, some of the action sequences are shot like something out of a first-person video game, and it's near-on impossible to see what's happening thanks to a) all the shaky-cam in use and b) they're set in the dark. Does this RoboCop even know it's an action movie? The closet this remake comes to incorporating a good action scene takes place towards the end, where Murphy battles it out with a couple of ED-209 droids, but even this is ruined by an overuse of CGI, and the fact that it looks more like a commercial for an upcoming game than a slice of blockbuster cinema. So there's nothing here that even comes close to the thrilling car chase, nor the finale in the construction yard, from Verhoven's classic. The final "battle" - which promises us a helicopter only for it to fly away - doesn't even happen. It just... ends.