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Review rated by 8 Ciao members on average: very helpful
I can't see any point in beating around the bush where this movie is concerned. Its crap. That is all you need to know, its crap, don't bother watching it because you'll be totally wasting your time. R3 is a blatant, cynical attempt to cash in on the Rococop name to make a quick buck whilst giving nothing in return. It has zero redeeming features.
The plot is simple and ludicrous, because of course nobody wanted to spend money on a screenwriters now did they? Of course not so what we have is the mega corporation OCP trying to throw some residents of some city district out of their homes because it wants the land back to make some more money. In steps Robocop to help, and it all ends happily ever after. Thats it. That is the plot, our friendly law enforcement guy turns squatter basically and fights for the common man against the law...dumb.
Of course, realising that the plot sucked, our team of morons who wrote this trash decided that robocop should also have some extra features. He has a rocket pack which allows him to fly and a hand which can be removed and replaced with a machine gun. Wonderful. However, what they didn't actually do in this revamp was make him any tougher. In fact, our previously indestructable hero has become a big wuss instead, kncked unconscious by a grenade, passing when seeing his finger chopped off by a ninja...oh please. Yes I did say 'ninja' because this movie even sinks to these B-movie style budget depths of ludicrousness.
Paul Verhoeven's original Robocop was a smart, tongue-in-cheek action movie with some great action scenes and it developed a ood following because of this. The second movie pretty much stank, but it was at least watchable, and did have some good parts. Robocop 3...is surely meant for kids and surely is one huge attempt to milk the licence for all it is worth. The TV series spinoff was like this movie, perhaps then it is a feature length version of the TV show because its certainly not up to cutting it as a standalone movie. It looks like they took a bunch of pre-school children and asked them to think of a plot. Then took a bunch of 9 years old and asked them to come up with a script. Then with a special effects budget of about $10 decided to create a movie which will easily go down as one of the worst things to hit the cinema screens in the last 10 years(Inspector Gadget wins that prize). At one stage when Robocop is flying I will swear that you can see the blue background around him used to create this effect, and his metalic body looks like the cheapest plastic - he looks almost exactly like his action figure counterpart sold over the shop counter. And I doubt this was an accident.
Every movie goes out with the express intention of making cash. If it were otherwise and everyone were living for their art then we wouldn't have movies such as this pile of trash and so much hype, trailers etc. Some of course are art for arts sake but they are a rarity. This movie is a cheap and very nasty attempt to cash in on the past glories of Robocop and to some extent Robocop 2(where the cash in began) by selling the movie to a child audience. Adults will watch in the hope that its anything like the others, children will watch because they probably got to see the others anyway despite the certification, and then rush out and blackmail mummy and daddy into buying the robocop lunchbox, figurines, sandwich bags...whatever. Do the world a favour and refuse to watch this sort of thing then maybe it'll happen a little less often. Bloodsuckers.
27.09.2001 13:07
Vicous and very entertaining vitriol! Sounds like it's well deserved though... Great op, thanks! JB