The RoboCop Scene That Made A Film Critic Complain To The Projectionist Isn't What You'd Expect

Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film "RoboCop" is one of the most violent, bullet-riddled, neck-stabbing, genital-shooting, entrance-wound-making, thug-mutating, CEO-murdering movies ever made. Although made as a criticism of the gross ultra-capitalism of the Reagan administration, it still plays well today, functioning as a commentary on unchecked corporate malfeasance and the ever-increasing militarization of the police. It was initially advertised as a standard sci-fi/action flick, but over the years, it's proven to be one of the most important movies of its decade. It took the zany Dutch filmmaker behind "Showgirls" to unpack the horrors of U.S. violence.

Even at the time, critics keyed into the satirical elements of "RoboCop," and few recoiled from its abundant violence. The Washington Po