RoboCop's torture scene
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P.Error — 3 years ago(February 06, 2023 05:28 AM)
The first 45 minuted of this movie is pretty good. It does a great job at character developing and developing Cain is an evil human character.
The middle act is when things fall apart.
To preface, the secret drug lab was a pretty ominous place and cool locale; since the police were on strike, you felt like the good characters who went there were isolated in "the middle of nowhere" by a gang of sadistic fearless psychopathic criminals.
RoboCop's torture scene, as it's happening, is agonising and tense. He was in a vulnerable position with little hope. How is he going to get out of this one?
It's scary to think what they could have done to RoboCop in this scene. They had all the time in the world with no cops coming anywhere near there. They could have buried him alive. They could have stuck things down his throat. Poked things in his eye. Put him in water. Slashed his face. Sexually assaulted him.
Instead, what do they do? They drop his broken body parts at the police station, and conveniently without doing any damage to his brain or his face, where he's in relatively safe hands and has a chance of being rebuilt.
Say what now?
It completely undermines this scene that these sadistic criminals would be that stupid and unintentionally helpful.
Any other idea that gives RoboCop a means to escape would have been better. Perhaps Lewis arrived, simultaneously while the gang heard helicopters hovering over them, and assumed it was a rival drug gang, so they flee - giving Lewis an opportunity to find him and bring him back before the gang comes back to notice him missing.
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Bobby-Tomlinson — 3 years ago(February 06, 2023 06:27 AM)
The scene makes me think of a much more recent film, TDK Rises. Bane leaves Batman broken and trapped, but could've killed him. He knows he has a chance to survive, but wants to put him through hell before potentially killing him. Much the same, Goldfinger wanted to kill Bond, but wants a conquest, etc.
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WarrenPeace — 3 years ago(February 06, 2023 07:18 AM)
Yeah, I noticed that too and don't get it why they gave him back to the cops to give him a chance to be rebuilt so he could come back.
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AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(October 01, 2025 02:59 AM)
Probably because this movie is ****
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