Kerry Hayes—Columbia Pictures Joel Kinnaman in RoboCop

The new film is more political satire than action movie — and that's not a
bad thing

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The wish fulfillment factor taken out of the equation, RoboCop becomes
less a work of aspirational coolness and more a piece of political
satire — and not necessarily a bad one. In the opening sequence, a
conservative news pundit (Samuel L. Jackson’s Pat Novak) makes a case
that the Dreyfus Act, a law which prohibits robots in American police