Robocop

This 1987 Paul Verhoeven glanced into the (not-so) distant future of Detroit and saw it on the verge of collapse due to financial ruin and unchecked crime. 

The mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products enters into a contract with the city to run the police force. OCP plans to destroy "Old Detroit" to replace it with the utopia of "Delta City." Recognizing that human law enforcers are insufficient to stop the crime spree, OCP runs several programs to find robotic replacements.  When the program backfires in the lap of the OCP exectutives they're forced to try a program that uses recently deceased police officers to form a "Robocop"

Robocop is a huge success in curtailing crime carrying out his three known directives "serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and uphold the law."  But Robocop is not all machine and has memories of his past life.  Along with OCP having complete control of his functioning the conflict between man and machine, corporate greed and public service and awesome cyborgs fighting drug dealing creeps comes to a beautiful crescendo in this spectacular examination of the media, consciousness, gentrification, corruption, privatization, capitalism, masculinity and humanity .  Part man. Part machine. All cop.  102 min  Rated R.