RoboCop in this remake is force-fed all the Detroit Police Department records and given access to all of the cities CCTV cameras. Its a voyeur and stalkers dream as RoboCop hacks into various CCTV cameras to spy on villains and his own family. But if that wasnt enough, the new RoboVision allows Murphy to reconstruct crime scenes, diagnose medical problems and read peoples emotional states. You get the impression that whatever hurdle there was in the script, RoboVision was on hand to come to the rescue. In one snigger inducing scene, RoboCop is on another angry motorbike ride and he uses CCTV to zoom in on his son. His son looks miserable but RoboVision still has to write Emotionally distraught under his unhappy face. And it even comes with a sense of humour. When RoboCop busts a drug factory, his RoboVision tells him that one of the bad guys is totally stoned. Rather than it being a tool for Murphy, this RoboVision is used to feed the audience information and fill in gaps in the script. Its heavy-handed and obvious. And more often than not, it makes you laugh at the absurdity of it rather than being in awe of how awesome it would be to have. One thing that didnt make sense, why did they decide to upload all the Police files into his memory, two minutes before he was going to be unveiled to the public for the first time? Its hardly surprising that something went wrong, surely a major installation like this would be done before and tested. But luckily Kinnaman is on hand to distract you from the bad script with his face-acting. As he's overloaded with information and starts to have a seizure, his eyes start rolling back to show the audience that hes not operating normally. It's unfortunate, the close up of Kinnamans face made him look like a man in deep ecstasy trying to access his Robo wank bank. Less would have been better.
