How low can you go? RoboCop has just skid into a big brick wall. I cannot see how this must have suffered woefully since RoboCop 2. I first bought this movie on cassette and was so bemused that it made the second movie look superior. So what is it that left such a bad taste in my mouth.
Well, the first movie had ED-209 and in its first demonstration the technicians were too slow to shut it down after killing an executive. In this movie, a small girl named Niko managed to reprogramme a killer robot of the same model even without prior knowledge of the machine. She makes the OCP technicians look like brain dead amateurs! And to top it off, she makes it "loyal as a puppy"! Utterly ridiculous!
How about this: Peter Weller did not reprise his role and was replaced with Robert Burke. Looking at this guy makes me cringe! It would have been better to pull the plug if Weller wasn't going to reappear!
I am pretty sure that a majority of actors, notably those who constitute the rebels, were not even real actors at all. Some of them had trouble delivering as if they had to read their cue cards before they knew what to say. Even the guy who plays Johnson has plummeted to his lowest point. I cannot be sure if he looked at himself on film and put a pistol in his mouth.
Plenty of viewers would think this RoboCop movie was turned into a rejected commercial. In fact, there are several commercial breaks so retarded that they would screw with people's minds and have them suffering endlessly. And by the way, this movie has Robo flying with a jet pack, and the digital effects are so cheap and crude that the stop motion is even far superior. And how is this one ton machine supposed to fly? That is ignored so that they can promote the toys associated.
What were the messages of the past movies? Detroit is a crime-plagued city and OCP had to deploy machinery for law enforcement. But now, not only does RoboCop join a rebel group, but he becomes a personal bodyguard for a kid. In fact, this kid Niko takes up more screentime than did Hob.
So in the first movie, Robo faced ED-209; in the second he faced RoboCop 2. Both of these machines were designed by OCP. But in this movie, Robo faced a ninja android. How unfair can you get!? This is ultimately lame. This movie was probably influenced by the popularity of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers at the time, and this is unoriginal and out of place.
So what else is this movie infamous for? Unintentional humour. I could recall a number of scenes of this instance, but I shall not. Because the violence, drugs and office politics of the previous movies were removed, this movie has been liable to several moments of humour that occurs unexpectedly.
So why does this movie fail? It ignores the influences that prevailed in the last movies; it is aimed at a younger audience; its direction took a disastrous turn; Peter Weller is absent; several actors were mostly amateurs. If this is one of trilogies where the third movie is the least successful, then it should be negated. It is not worth the money or time
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