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In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target. Written by
Andy Phillips
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It Is The Future. He fought the horror of robots programmed to kill.
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The name of the Chicago Police Department division that tracked down runaway robots was "The Runaway Unit" or "Runaway Squad".
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Goofs
During the car chase scene, two cop cars are involved, one carries the target while the other uses a roof-mounted laser to destroy the lock-ons as they approach the target. One sequence during this scene has the laser-guidance system alerting to a lock-on approaching from the front and then destroying it. However, only one car is shown dropping the lock-ons onto the roadway and that is from several cars behind the target car. Additionally, when the lock-on approaching from the front is shown being destroyed, it is actually moving with traffic, not against traffic as you would expect from something approaching you on the road from the front.
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Quotes
Luther:
Drop it, sucker!
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Connections
Referenced in
Deathrow Gameshow (1987)
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This was a decent suspense film with a different twist for its day, dealing with robots. The idea has since been copied in a few films.
Here, cops go after runaway robots and after a villain who is trying to steal deadly weapons (gosh, that's original). The special effects are pretty good - especially since this was made over 20 years ago - and I particularly enjoyed watching the heat-seeking bullets fired from the villain's gun. Rock star Gene Simmons, by the way, does a nice job as the bad guy.
As entertaining as this Tom Selleck movie was, it had a B-quality to it with some stupid and predictable dialog. The climactic scenes were very predictable. You just knew certain things were going to happen...and they did. Yet, it was fun to watch and worth one look.