Michael Keaton: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked
...And 5 That Sucked
5. Raymond Sellars - RoboCop (2014)
Hollywood will eat itself. Or, well, Hollywood has kind of already eaten itself, and then poops out what's left after it's stripped out all of the wit, invention, irony and originality from the original product, leaving audiences to deal with the remains. That's a disgusting and roundabout way of saying they do a lot of remakes. This year saw the turn of Paul Verhoven's satirical, hyper-violent eighties sci-fi action film (and Christ allegory) RoboCop, which actually managed to maintain a lot of what made it great the first time around in terms of the totally on-the-nose but accurate parodies of modern crime, warfare, technology and the media. Where it fared less favourably was in the characters. The Killing's Joel Kinnaman barely registered in the eponymous role, Gary Oldman was totally wasted as a scientist with conflicted morals, but Keaton especially had nothing to work with as Generic Corporate Bad Guy #5. Or Raymond Sellars as IMDb calls him.
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