RoboCop RoboCop RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future, "RoboCop" centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as RoboCop. Themes that make up the basis of "RoboCop" include media influence, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privatization, capitalism, identity,
RoboCop 1000 Movies Ever Made". AMC Filmsite.org and Film.com rated it as one of the best films of 1987. The film was on the ballot for two of the American Film Institute's "100 Series" lists. These included "100 Years…100 Thrills", a list of America's most heart-pounding films, and AFI's "Ten Top Ten", a list of the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres. "RoboCop" was a candidate in the science fiction category. At its release, British director Ken Russell said that this was the best science fiction film since Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927). In a 2013 interview, Edward Neumeier