10 Changes That Made RoboCop 2014 Vastly Inferior To The Original

3. Lack Of Memorable Action Scenes

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.