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Originally Posted by itMFtis

He could barely move in the old armor. The way he moved onscreen seemed real stiff due to the limitations of the armor. Hell even the NECA toy seems to duplicate it pretty well.

The form fitting one will allow better action scenes rather than Robocop just standing straight up and walking around.

That's just it. Robocop isn't supposed to be acrobatic, dodging, and fast. He's supposed to be cumbersome, lumbering, and a badass even though he's slow. It adds to his oomph. Criminals hear those steps, that iconic walking nose, and sure they may laugh thinking they can run away or blast the hell out of him, but robocop is made by Detroit engineering. He'll survive anything like die-cast. He comes out on top because he's just built that well and sturdy like a rock.

This new one, while I love the idea of the acrobatic precision that the modern tech angle presents, just removes too much of what made the previous iconic. This one is more like the 6 billion dollar man with a bubblegum crisis hard suit, which I'm fine with as a next gen robocop if it didn't mean erasing the steps that led to it by doing this as a "Reboot."

I'd much prefer it if they approached it as they retired the old model because of new lighter weight technologies and added on to the legend itself.

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely LOVE the idea of precision acrobatics and action that sleeker armor/tech designs present. It's just that those ideas aren't Robocop. This is more like a one man RoboSWAT.

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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

Well, the reason he has a human hand is because (in the movie) it's illegal for a robot to pull the trigger of a gun to kill a person. So by having him keep his human hand, it acts as a sort of legal loophole. and before anyone asks about ED-209, remember that (in the original, at least) he was operated with a control panel that was used by humans.

They could still put a glove on it, or an armored glove. It just looks off as is for all the reasons suggested.

Also that control panel part, means the loophole is still present with his human brain making the conscious choice to shoot too then. So it makes an immediate potential movie plot hole/goof.

I'll still see the film, but between the hand and that little tidbit, I'm not as enthused as I was before about it being decent. At least before I could separate it by thinking of it as a mislabeled IP. Now, not so much. Now it's seeming more and more like a brainless action flick with high-octane visuals, and Robocop has always been anything but.