10 Ingredients To Making A Perfect Modern Day RoboCop Film

4. Social Commentary

This is an area both films definitely succeeded in - although undoubtedly Verhoeven dug far deeper - and something you just cannot have a RoboCop movie without. The reboot illustrates an interesting point fairly early on the film, by depicting the machines as a replacement for armed soldiers. Sadly, it's yet another plot point that feels drastically underdeveloped, but its mere presence brings up something far more interesting. As time moves forward, there will always be new political and social debates to pepper into the story for something refreshing. Even if the story kind of failed, the reboot proved that you can always keep building on the themes of the franchise by updating it to fall in line with more current events. Executing it just takes a great degree of care and skill. What cannot be sacrificed and never topped though, is the sharp edge and visceral bite Verhoeven's subtext defined the original version with. Nevertheless, any version of RoboCop needs the underlying subtext to feel like a RoboCop film in essence.