https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234721
I suppose its technical execution is decent enough. The script is a bit…eh. The inciting incident for the final act feels a bit forced, it just doesn’t have the same buildup as the original.
Actually, the pacing is just screwed up in general. The original film has 15 minutes less runtime and yet it feels like way more stuff happens.
The “red asset” thing was very stupid, as it robbed us of the brilliance of the original’s “you’re fired!” “thank you.” exchange, as well as it requiring a character who has not been previously set up as a killer for the rest of the film to threaten a woman and child with a gun in order to summon up the strength in Murphy to overcome his body’s programming and pull the trigger.
Although Sellars does give the order to shut down RoboCop as the inciting incident for the final act, he just sees Murphy as a defective product and not a human being, which in itself would have been interesting character development, but doesn’t directly translate into threatening people with a gun.