JOE meets José Padilha, director of RoboCop (2014)

Dead or alive, you're chatting to JOE...

JOE's lawyers have informed us that we must, of course, clarify that we didn't actually threaten the director José Padilha into talking with us ahead of the release of this year's reimagining of RocoCop.

The shiny new sci-fi action film, which hits Irish cinemas today, tells the story of Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), a decent Detroit cop and family man who is left for dead after a criminal's car-bomb leaves him horrifically maimed.

His only hope for survival? To represent the future of US law enforcement by becoming... wait for it... *drum roll*... almost there... you know the name... PolicemanMachine!

DAMMIT. We knew we'd mess that up.

RoboCop. Murphy becomes RoboCop.