The third Robocop movie is one of those that I have always heard as being a terrible film. To start with it doenst feature Peter Weller as Robocop and it seems to centre on an irritating kid. The film is noticeably different as it doesn’t have any of the blood and violence that the previous two. There is a long time before Robocop actually makes an appearance. When he does it’s a silly moment because he comes in a car and drives the car off a building and manages to land it next to the action
It seems like Robert John Burke sounds an awful like Sylvester Stallone which is an unfortunate side effect. Though face-wise he does look a bit like Paul Weller which is probably the only thing they got right when they cast him. To be honest it was always going to be a hard job in trying to follow in the footsteps of someone who made the role famous. A bit like when someone becomes the new Doctor Who or James Bond.
There are some ludircrous moment when they strap a jetpack onto him. God knows why but there must be toys with Robocop and a jetpack. It gets thrown off him when we first seem him with it but then it gets bought back at the end when he doesn’t have the use of his legs. When he comes out with it on and its just a stupid moment which shows that even the writers had given up by this point in the script stage. Sadly there are several ludicrous moments as Robocop goes against a ninja. Even in that scene there is no darkness like there was when Robocop got butchered in the first movie.
The scientist is awful. She doesn’t pull it of and everytime she was on screen I just thought that she wasn’t a scientist and just seemed to be there to add a bit of glamour.
In the first Robocop movie, Murphy was up against a group of thugs and in the second one it was him against a massive evil Robocop. Here, Murphy is against a Ninja.
When the guy turns out to be a traitor to the rebels I wasn’t really that bothered as I had no interest in any of the characters and just found them bland and boring.
The plot (which is being generous) is all over the place. I couldn’t actually tell you what it was about because I couldn’t follow it and when the film is like that then you know the film isn’t up to scratch.
There is a moment where the gun is being shot and it seems to stay exactly in the same which was just stupid.
Watch your language there are children about pretty much sums up the problems with this movie as it seems aimed directly at kids more than adults which was the case in the previous two films.
Johnny Rehab is a fake cartoon that gets advertised before a news programme and it’s a silly moment which emphasis’ the kid targetness of the movie.
Throughout the movie the kid is irritating and doesn’t seem to achieve anything except for trying to humanise Robocop for the kiddies.
There are some memorable people in this as there is Bradley Whitford who I know from ‘The West Wing’ and then there is Cch Pounder who appeared in an episode of ‘The X-Files’ and appeared in other shows such as ‘The Shield’. When these two appeared on screen I was interested and when they left it then I found being bored by the whole sorry excuse of a movie. Then there is the chap from Men In Black who plays the President of OCP and he does seem to be a bit comical.
Sergeant I have no idea is a good character who’s best moment comes when he throws his badge on the floor which leads to a nice little moment of all the other cops doing the same.
One of the few characters to return in this movie is Nancy Allen who quite surprisingly gets killed around the half way point of the movie. That was a mistake as far as I was concerned because she was one of the few good things in the movie.
I don’t know what the point of this movie. I don’t know why it exists because it serves no purpose what so ever. If anything it didn’t feel like a Robocop movie as it doesn’t have any drama, any excitement or any of the dark tone that was running through the previous films.
Is this movie worse than Godfather Part 3? I don’t think so because at least there are a few moments where its watchable. Mainly the bits with Al Pacino but that’s the only thing that makes it better than Robocop 3. This has no redeeming qualities to it and it’s a complete and utter waste of time from start to finish. There is no plot, no characters that are of any interest and to cap it all there is a stupid moment where Robocop is driving a pink Cadillac. It’s the stupid cherry on the stupid cake.
It seems like Robert John Burke sounds an awful like Sylvester Stallone which is an unfortunate side effect. Though face-wise he does look a bit like Paul Weller which is probably the only thing they got right when they cast him. To be honest it was always going to be a hard job in trying to follow in the footsteps of someone who made the role famous. A bit like when someone becomes the new Doctor Who or James Bond.
There are some ludircrous moment when they strap a jetpack onto him. God knows why but there must be toys with Robocop and a jetpack. It gets thrown off him when we first seem him with it but then it gets bought back at the end when he doesn’t have the use of his legs. When he comes out with it on and its just a stupid moment which shows that even the writers had given up by this point in the script stage. Sadly there are several ludicrous moments as Robocop goes against a ninja. Even in that scene there is no darkness like there was when Robocop got butchered in the first movie.
The scientist is awful. She doesn’t pull it of and everytime she was on screen I just thought that she wasn’t a scientist and just seemed to be there to add a bit of glamour.
In the first Robocop movie, Murphy was up against a group of thugs and in the second one it was him against a massive evil Robocop. Here, Murphy is against a Ninja.
When the guy turns out to be a traitor to the rebels I wasn’t really that bothered as I had no interest in any of the characters and just found them bland and boring.
The plot (which is being generous) is all over the place. I couldn’t actually tell you what it was about because I couldn’t follow it and when the film is like that then you know the film isn’t up to scratch.
There is a moment where the gun is being shot and it seems to stay exactly in the same which was just stupid.
Watch your language there are children about pretty much sums up the problems with this movie as it seems aimed directly at kids more than adults which was the case in the previous two films.
Johnny Rehab is a fake cartoon that gets advertised before a news programme and it’s a silly moment which emphasis’ the kid targetness of the movie.
Throughout the movie the kid is irritating and doesn’t seem to achieve anything except for trying to humanise Robocop for the kiddies.
There are some memorable people in this as there is Bradley Whitford who I know from ‘The West Wing’ and then there is Cch Pounder who appeared in an episode of ‘The X-Files’ and appeared in other shows such as ‘The Shield’. When these two appeared on screen I was interested and when they left it then I found being bored by the whole sorry excuse of a movie. Then there is the chap from Men In Black who plays the President of OCP and he does seem to be a bit comical.
Sergeant I have no idea is a good character who’s best moment comes when he throws his badge on the floor which leads to a nice little moment of all the other cops doing the same.
One of the few characters to return in this movie is Nancy Allen who quite surprisingly gets killed around the half way point of the movie. That was a mistake as far as I was concerned because she was one of the few good things in the movie.
I don’t know what the point of this movie. I don’t know why it exists because it serves no purpose what so ever. If anything it didn’t feel like a Robocop movie as it doesn’t have any drama, any excitement or any of the dark tone that was running through the previous films.
Is this movie worse than Godfather Part 3? I don’t think so because at least there are a few moments where its watchable. Mainly the bits with Al Pacino but that’s the only thing that makes it better than Robocop 3. This has no redeeming qualities to it and it’s a complete and utter waste of time from start to finish. There is no plot, no characters that are of any interest and to cap it all there is a stupid moment where Robocop is driving a pink Cadillac. It’s the stupid cherry on the stupid cake.
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