Few sci-fi films quite captured the zeitgeist like seminal 1987 film “RoboCop.”
(Few films have been as prescient either, given the state of Detroit in both the movie and in real life.)
The film, which is about a fatally injured police officer given a second lease on life thanks to cybernetics, was a smash hit that spawned a pair of sequels.

That last of that original “RoboCop” trilogy came out in 1993 — and the franchise has been in something of a funk ever since then.
There was a short-lived television series and an even shorter-lived reboot attempt in 2014, with neither quite rekindling the magic of the 1987 origina …