rexhuntingdog

It's strange that we live in a time when a reboot of a classic genre franchise or character is considered a success by not being awful and ROBOCOP isn't awful so it's being considered a success! The original ROBOCOP was an exciting piece of action, social commentary and religion, this film is not that and fails to be everything the original was. But if we look past the original and take this for what it is, it's just a dumb action film with some okay to look at sequences that thinks it's a lot smarter than it is. Look past whenever it tires to make a moral statement, the fact that RoboCop isn't really that much of a hero (a problem in a lot of modern 'hero' films), and that some characters keep on making strange 180's on their views and how they feel (feels like a lot of scenes were cut out explaining this possibly). Look past all that and you will probably have a pretty okay time watching what's more of a modern FPS video game adaptation than a new ROBOCOP, but you'll never have a better time than okay.

I don't agree with why this film exists really. It was crowd sourced with the draw to internet users by having half of the DOLLHOUSE cast in it. The target audience of 'people who don't care at all what these actors are in but are just happy to see them on their screens' seem pretty happy with the finished product, but I don't really. It's a completely clichéd story of some nerdish guy who doesn't think he can really talk to girls trying to win his ex back and finding love in other places along the way. The actors all have this great likable quality that makes them fun to watch and they really do their best with the bland characters they have to work with. This film isn't half as likable as it thinks it is, it's pretty bland and formulaic. You'll have fun seeing these actors and you'll like them but not really the characters. Pretty much a waste of time.

George Clooney took (from what brief research I did on the events)an important story and something by the sounds of it is really worth telling and essentially just made OCEANS ELEVEN. It's a bunch of actors running about together having fun (though half the time it seems like some of the cast neither wants to be there or even cares slightly, yes we're looking at you Bill Murray). It's dull, thinks it has some sense of pedigree with it's all star cast and Clooney behind the camera and it's just full of boring stereotypes and clichés. I do not care about THE MONUMENTS MEN and someone could have made a film where I do. It came out at the start of the year when studios dump any old trash. This is passable trash.