It's informed so many films since, yet nothing - not even the sequels (despite some excellent ideas in the second one) and certainly not the remake - can come close to this original. A plethora of special features kept me entertained and informed long after the end credits had rolled…and before I ultimately will go back for yet another rewatch. Forget all the modern usage of CGI in movies, the original was old school, even down to ED-209 being filmed in stop-frame animation, yes folks, this is a film that is a big fave in my film collection and it was fantastic to see RoboCop (1987) back on the big screen, I do hope that Cineworld will bring us more special anniversary releases soon. The soundbites are punctuated with advertisements that also barely exaggerate the sorts of promotions of the time.

There’s also an archival commentary with Verhoeven, executive producer Jon Davison, and Neumeier, as well as two more recent commentaries by film historian Paul M.

As RoboCop’s memories of his former life as Murphy resurface, only his ex-partner, Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen), stands beside him to fight against the vicious thugs responsible for his death, as well as a nefarious top-level OCP executive orchestrating the chaos from above.

What appears to be their first foray into Atmos tracks should be commended for its restraint and faithfulness to the original sound design, although that hardly makes it a demo effort in any respect, and the extras may well be just a port of their earlier Blu-ray set's extras, but it's excellent and comprehensive nonetheless, leaving this the definitive way to own this masterpiece. and uses a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG), High Dynamic Range (and Dolby Vision) and is encoded using the HEVC (H.Like Arrow’s other recent 4K release, 12 Monkeys, RoboCop’s visual improvement in 4K is more of incremental than revolutionary. Overall, since Arrow and MGM’s transfers are taken from the same source, there are only minor differences between them, at least in 1080p.