The Scene: Detroit detective Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) goes outside his home to investigate his car alarm suddenly going off, only for a car bomb planted by crime boss Antoine Vallon (Patrick Garrow) to go off, engulfing him in flames. Why It Sucked: This one was doomed from the start due to the unsavoury PG-13 it was constrained by. Simply, it just doesn't measure up to the insanely violent murder scene of Murphy (Peter Weller) from the original 1987 classic, in which the cop is shot dozens of times (including his hand being blown clean off) before being finally put down in supremely humiliating fashion. While it's easy to see why the filmmakers chose a car bomb, because it's easy to obscure the violence with a wall of fire, it totally lacks the visceral horror of the original scene, which did a brilliant job of making audiences hate Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) from the outset. This tame equivalent just doesn't measure up, and Murphy doesn't even die in it.
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