Police officer is killed and rebuilt as a cyborg, goes gunning for the lowlives that killed him. Sounds like a real silly movie, doesn't it? It should and that is how the sequels and all other movies trying to imitate this movie come off. In this case, Paul Verhoeven weaves a tale that can entertain both the thinker and the action fan. I've seen a documentary where Peter Weller said that he wished the violence that was cut out to make the 'R' rating was left in. He felt it made the film more funnier. I beg to differ. With one exception, the violence was cartoonish enough that anymore would've bogged it down and the exception had to be that way. One of the best things of the movie is that Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith and Paul McCrane play some of moviedom's most vilest and memorable of villains. Up to that point, one usually found these three playing some of the more sensitive characters. And they pull it off! Chock full of quotable lines and seemingly throw-a-way parts that come back to mean something later, this movie is a lot of fun.
