END OF DAYS (Peter Hyams, 1999). A Wall Street investment banker (Gabriel Byrne) gets possessed by Satan himself, who has come to impregnate a young woman named Christine York (Robin Tunney) on the eve of the new millennium. Only Satan faces a hard-boiled enemy in the form of ex-cop-turned-bodyguard Jericho Cane (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow/James Cameron, 1995). In an out-of-control Los Angeles at the turn of the millennium, a former detective (Ralph Fiennes) sells illegal, virtual-reality devices which allow users to experience the recorded sensations of others.
ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, 1987). A murdered cop, Alex Murphy (Peter Weller), is wired into a computer-controlled artificial body and set to the task of policing the soaring crime rate of the near-future city of Detroit.
BITTER MOON (Roman Polanski, 1992). Whilst on a Mediterranean New-Year cruise in this bleak, disturbing and intense tale, English couple Nigel and Fiona (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas) meet Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound American novelist, and his young French wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner).
The clip: A woman wishes RoboCop/Alex Murphy a Happy New Year and gives him a kiss, leaving a smudge of lipstick on the camera lens, i.e. RoboCop’s visor. (Clip source: getyarn.io)
