Android Cop (2014)
Android Cop is a 2014 American science fiction action film produced by The Asylum and directed by Mark Atkins. The film stars Michael Jai White, Charles S. Dutton, Randy Wayne and Kadeem Hardison. It is a mockbuster of RoboCop.
Plot:
In 2045, Los Angeles Police Department detective Hammond (Michael Jai White) and his new partner “Andy” (Randy Wayne) — a state of the art crimefighting robot cop — are tasked with recovering a runaway Telepresence android containing the consciousness of Mayor Jacobs’s (Charles S. Dutton) daughter Helen (Larissa Vereza), who remains unaware that she is a human mind in a machine body. Hammond does not trust machines due to a prior incident in which his partner was killed by an automated gun turret despite their using a code to control it, and maintains a tense, often sarcastic relationship with Andy. Hammond and Andy are dispatched to the “Zone,” a quarantined section of Los Angeles devastated by an earthquake and subsequent nuclear leaks, which have infected and mutated the Zone’s residents. However, they are unaware that a number of their fellow LAPD officers are corrupt, working for Mayor Jacobs himself in a plan to provoke violence with the goal of justifying an invasion of the Zone and termination of its residents.
The corrupt cops are led by Sgt. Jones (Kadeem Hardison), Hammond’s
colleague. Hammond and Andy reach the Zone and trace Helen’s cellphone, but have to be rescued by her when a bomb is planted on their car. She reveals to them that Zone residents are giving birth to healthy, mutation-free children, causing them to realize that the story about nuclear leaks was a lie. En route to what they believe to be an extraction point, Hammond, Andy and Helen realize that the lie about nuclear leakage was spread to manipulate land prices, and that the real source of the disease is the food drop program for which Mayor Jacobs has received honor.
At the extraction point, Helen realizes she is an android, and Hammond comforts her. Jones and a team of corrupt cops arrive intending to kill Hammond, Andy and Helen, but Andy discovers their motives using analysis of their facial motions.
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Release:
The film was released direct-to-video and video-on-demand on February 4, 2014 in the United States. In the tradition of The Asylum’s catalog, Android Cop is a mockbuster of the 2014 MGM/Columbia Pictures remake of RoboCop.
Cast:
- Michael Jai Whiteas Officer Hammond
- Charles S. Duttonas Mayor Jacobs
- Kadeem Hardisonas Sgt. Jones
- Randy Wayne as Android Cop
Larissa Vereza as Helen Jacobs
Jay Gillespie as Reynolds
Deena Trudy as Officer Jackson
Delpaneaux Wills as Officer Williams
Duane Avery as Newald Mason