Robocop (1987)
Paul Verhoeven’s fantastic 1987 film Robocop may be a violent satire of Ronald Reagan’s corporatist, right-wing America, but it’s also just a helluva good time. In the future, things in Detroit are so bad that the city decides to privatize the police force, ceding control of it to a megacorporation called Omni Consumer Products. Omni then decides to roll out an experimental security product: a cyborg called Robocop. The product was created using the mangled body of a slain Detroit police officer, who is essentially brought back to life and put inside a cybernetic suit. Robocop hunts down the city’s criminals, obeying his corporate overlords…until he doesn’t.
