The movie starts with 'robot soldiers' being used overseas as to in the US. OmniCorp wants to sell their products in the US but is stopped by the Dreyfuss Act. The Act disagrees with having robots as law enforcers because it lacks the compassion and feeling of a human. OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars decides, in order to get around the Dreyfuss Act, decides to put a man in a machine. In order to find a man that can interact with the machine, Sellars gets Dr. Dennett Norton to assist. Dr. Dennett is the doctor in helping people using robotics to their body, such as a man using his robotic hands to play a guitar.
While searching for the right candidate, Officer Alex Murphy and his partner, Jack Lewis, investigate a case of guns from the police evidence room gone missing. However, they get ambushed and Jack Lewis gets injured. Murphy poking in deeper into the case gets the attention of 2 other officers who are corrupted and working with Antoine Vallon. Vallon is the top guy in the missing guns. As Murphy returns from the hospital, visiting Jack, his car gets planted with explosive. And as you can predict, the car exploded, leaving Murphy with burns and missing limbs. He became the perfect candidate for OmniCorp's program. Dr. Dennett convinces Murphy's wife, Clara, to consent to the program.
As Murphy is introduced into the new outfit, he first, rejects the program. With Dr. Dennett's help, he is able to overcome the program. As he goes through a series of test, Murphy began to show that his emotions gets the better of him. Sellars instructs Dennett to take out Murphy's emotion (there's a scene of a brain surgery) and making Murphy believe that he is in control of his own body, where in fact, it's not. Rick Mattox is assigned to test Murphy. Mattox is OmniCorp's military technician. Mattox does not like RoboCop.
Upon the reveal of RoboCop by the police force, Murphy gets downloaded with the police database into his brain. It gets overwhelming and RoboCop goes into a seizure. But OmniCorp needs him up and ready for the reveal. Hence, Dr. Dennett gets forced into subduing RoboCop's emotion. As a result, RoboCop's becomes unemotional.
At the press conference, RoboCop does not recognise his wife and son. He apprehends a criminal among the crowd using his new database download. He becomes the new hero of Detroit. More of a robot than a human. As he continues with his duties reducing crime rate in Detroit, Clara is prevented from seeing Murphy.
Clara confronts RoboCop and tells him that he needs to see his son. RoboCop search deeper into who Clara and her son is. His emotions level starts to increase causing him to be more human than robot. He search deeper into his own case. He discovers that Vallon is behind his death and goes on a hunt for Vallon. Upon arriving to Vallon's warehouse, RoboCop gets ambushed. It was revealed that Vallon got a tip of RoboCop's arrival. The tip came from the police force. Vallon gets killed but not before injuring RoboCop severely. RoboCop returns to the police station and exposed the corrupt cops, the two officers that they meet at the beginning of the film. RoboCop also reveals that the Chief of Police is also one of the corrupt police. Before his arrests the Chief of Police, his system is shut down and Mattox.
Sellars goes on air with Pat Novak at the Novak Element show and uses RoboCop to his advantage in turning people against the Dreyfuss Act. As the voting goes underway for the Dreyfuss Act, Sellars announces that RoboCop is dead, which, in fact he is not dead. Sellars wants RoboCop offline because he starts to show his human side, going against the program.
Clara creates havoc by going to the press. Sellars calls to meet Clara and reveals that RoboCop died in the operation to fix him. Sellars orders Mattox to kill RoboCop. Dr. Dennett revives RoboCop and reveals that Sellars was behind the scheme to misuse RoboCop and gain the trust of the people to go against the Dreyfuss Act.
Sellars closes down OmniCorp's building and calls for the drones to kill RoboCop. Dr. Dennett seeks help from Jack. They helped RoboCop enter into OmniCorp. As RoboCop reaches the roof of the building, he confronts Sellars but is unable to kill him due to the device that tags people that OmniCorp robots cannot kill. However, RoboCop, or rather, Murphy, overcomes the program and kills Sellars.
At the end, it is reveald OCP, OmniCorp's parent company withdraws the RoboCop program and will review it until further notice (perhaps a hint to RoboCop 2?). Murphy gets a new body with the same colour as the original RoboCop.
In one scene where Sellars marketing is deciding on Robocop's look, we see a glimpse of the original RoboCop suit.
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