Paul Verhoeven is an enigma to me. His Hollywood films seem to vary between Sci-Fi satire (Starship Troopers, Total Recall) and baffling smut (Basic Instinct, Showgirls) with his early artistic Dutch films (Spetters, Soldier Of Orange) remaining some of his best. He’s obviously a very smart director, and even his worst films have interesting ideas within them, but you really never know what you’re going to get. Verhoeven’s arrival to mainstream films came in 1987 with the blockbuster Sci-Fi action film Robocop, and the filmmakers satiric interests (and love of extreme violence) were already well defined. Robocop is that most
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