An elaborate tracking shot is used only in the unrated that shows the back of Murphy's head exploding into the camera when he is finally shot by Clarence.
The subsequent part with him being riddled with bullets is much longer as well. After his hand is blown off, Murphy looks in horror at the stump, before Clarence's gang blows off his entire arm with gunfire. Murphy's death is almost a minute longer in the unrated version. During the car chase, when Clarence's henchman Bobby is shot in the leg, the R-rated version shows a long shot, while the unrated has a gruesome close-up of Bobby's leg being shot.
Restoring this footage makes the scene much more darkly comical. When Kinney collapses onto the model of Delta City, there are extra shots of him being bloodily hit with more bullets, as well as the ED-209 technicians struggling to rip wiring out of the circuit board. In the director's cut there is another frontal shot of Kinney getting riddled with bullets at the start of the scene. The first cuts appear in the scene where ED-209 goes berserk and shoots Kinney during the meeting. The unrated version has subsequently been used for many of the film's DVD and Blu-Ray releases.
The 1987 theatrical release was cut in several scenes to attain an R-rating, and this unrated version restored that footage. In 1995, The Criterion Collection premiered the 'unrated' edition of RoboCop on LaserDisc.
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