With current special effects, I wonder what Robocop will look like. I was hoping Michael Fassbender would get the part. The relatively unknown Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman will be playing the cybernetic crime fighter. With mega actors Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson as a supporting cast, this upcoming 2013 release seems serious. As a child, seeing the 1987 release, I thought it would be cool to have machines enforce the law so biological officers would not risk their lives. Integrating machines with the human physiology elevates mortal crime fighters into superhumans who are capable of much more than their flesh and bone colleagues.
As amazing as this seems, robotic or cybernetic law enforcers will be operating without human sensibilities, unless they are programmed to do so. Still if a cybernetic police officer has to use force, would this yield the same emotional response as a human officer trying to use force?
