When director José Padilha’s first hit theaters, it faced the near-impossible task of stepping out from the shadow of Paul Verhoeven’s legendary 1987 masterpiece. Where the original relied on over-the-top, hard-R gore and biting 1980s corporate satire, the 2014 remake took a more grounded, PG-13 look at a post-9/11 world driven by automated warfare, drone politics, and algorithmic media manipulation.

Re-Evaluating a Modern Sci-Fi Reimagining: The RoboCop 2014 4K Top Home Video Experience

The transfer is sourced from a of the original digital intermediate. While the film was originally mastered in 2K, this upscale provides a noticeable uptick in fine detail—texture in the metallic suit and facial features like pores and wrinkles are much more distinct.