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A 1984 film starring [[Tom Selleck]] and [[KISS
In the near future, when robots become commonplace, Sgt. Jack Ramsey (Selleck) handles cases involving malfunctioning robots.He gets involved in the schemes of a twisted genius named Dr. Charles Luther (Simmons), resulting in a cat and mouse game with such weapons as guided bullets, rolling bombs and acid squirting robotic spiders.
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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted - there ''is'' no AI, just machines doing what they are programmed to do, or malfunctioning because somebody ''didn't'' do what ''they'' were supposed to do.
* [[Chase Scene]]: A fairly memorable one - Luther attacks a police convoy with roving smart bombs by dropping them from a trapdoor in his car, so the heroes can't even see where he's attacking them ''from.''
* [[Death
* [[Dueling Movies]]: With one of the biggest actors at the time and written/directed by a science-fiction legend, this film was projected to be the major sci-fi film of 1984. Instead, it got overshadowed by a [[The Terminator|B-movie about a robot assassin played by an Austrian bodybuilder who barely spoke English, co-starring alongside actors who only had theater experience, and written/directed by an unknown]] (whose last film credit was ''[[Piranha|Piranha II]]'').
* [[Homing Projectile]]: the infrared homing rounds.
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