Remakes are, to put it kindly, a mixed bag.
The best can sometimes eclipse their original and even go onto become Oscar-nominated, whilethe worst remakes are unwatchable.
When it comes to action movies, remakes can be a good idea on paper.
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However one cuts it, theseten action movie remakes are the worst.
It’s all the more egregious thatWoo returned to direct this milquetoast updateof his action masterpiece.
Action directorWalter Hillwas attached at one point and even Woo himself initially turned down the offer until eventually returning.
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The result isan action movie bereft of personalitythat can’t hold a slow-motion dove to the original’s intensity.
It’s a remake that has been all but forgotten.
All the right parts are in place for a solid update.
Unfortunately,those ideas are all a surface-level paint job.
Paul Verhoeven’soriginalRoboCopwas a sci-fi satire that was punctuated by over-the-top humor and violence.
The remake trades all of that for empty, bloodless PG-13 action.
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Even the emotional engine of the original has been completely gutted.
It’s a slick, high-tech body thatlacks the soul of the original.
The movie then follows an amnesiac conspiracy action plotline that pullsmore from theBournemovies than it does the wild original.
Original director John Milius would see a similar fate befallthe failed remake of hisConan the Barbarian.
Much like the subdued recreation of the hammer fight scene, nothing in the movie has any real impact.
The remake isone of the worst revenge movies ever madeand one ofthe most hated of 2024.
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McTiernan later alsolied to the FBI about the wiretapping and was sentenced to a year in federal prison.
No movie is worth serving hard time over, especially not one as bad as theRollerballremake.
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