Writers: Frank Miller, Fred Dekker
Starring: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn
Released: 1993
The third and final RoboCop film sees RoboCop (now played by Robert John Burke, replacing Peter Weller) join the resistance movement against the "Rehabs", an armed militaristic unit who are replacing the police force and trying to relocate residents of certain parts of Detroit.
This is a pretty lame film. As the producers wanted a lower certificate following the relative failure of the second film, most of the darker edges of the first two films have been removed, as have most of the satirical adverts and news clips. Instead, this is a straight up "the people and RoboCop are good" and "corporation are bad" film with little subtlety.
About the only interesting idea here is the notion that OCP has been taken over by a larger Japanese corporation. However, this isn't developed at all, save for the arrival of some Japanese ninja cyborgs, who do little in the film except chop a few things with their swords then get killed by RoboCop.
Also confusing are the reasons for giving RoboCop additional technological add-ons; he gets a screw-on gun and jetpack. The way RoboCop embraces these again goes aginst the idea of the first film that he gradually becomes more human over the course of the film; over the second and third films he seems to have regressed back to being a monotone robot.
The special effects are also not that great. The scenes where RoboCop flies in particular aren't very good.
Overall, this comes across as a rather cheap and pointless sequel. Not very good.
Rating: 1.5/5
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