Robocop 3
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Movie Reviews of Robocop 3
Movie Review: Worst of the three, but gives alittle hope for a better film
Summary: 2 Stars
This was the worst of three movies, because of how they messed with the violence, and made the movie PG-13. What made the first two movies good was the great gore that made them feel more realistic then what was presernted here. Here there is no gore, but very little action scenes with almost no physical violence at all. This was the worst mistake that Orion made, because as a result this movie flopped with just 10 million at the box office after being shelved for two years, and took down the entire studio with it. Peter Weller should've been in this movie, because it would've been alot better movie. Some people say that this movie is better than Robocop 2, because it has less violence, and focuses more on the story which is true as it does so, but overall this movie is nothing more than a major disappointment.Movie Review: Wow...Really Not Good
Summary: 2 Stars
Robocop: Great, great sci-fi action film, famous mostly for it's extreme graphicness. Rated R.Robocop 2: Manages to be just as, if not more, graphic than Robocop. You can tell they try to be controversial too. (Kid as a drug lord, man holds a gun to a baby's head) Rated R.
Robocop 3: New actor, Robocop learns to fly...almost no blood the entire film. Rated PG13.
What the $#!@ happened?!
Movie Review: MGM should release this with Robo2 as a Double Feature
Summary: 1 Stars
Believe me I'm not one of those people who have dismissed a sequel before it's even released. I do love many, many sequel's but the Robocop sequels where major flops to me. Robocop 2 was a big disappointment to me when I first saw it, and the review I gave it as soon as it finished hasn't changed the slightest in the few times I have watched it since. It is a movie that starts off looking very promising, but fails to have the same greatness of the original. And Robocop 3 I would put into my list of worst movie's of all time category with no questions asked. The movie was not thought out and had completely taken the impression that "This could happen in real life" to "This is just an unrealistic comic book made into a movie". The first movie was an action/horror kind of movie and easily rated R. The sequels got tamer as they went along trying to make them into a kid's film. But what I have always wondered about that is, "WHY?" The first movie has an R rating. So kids wouldn't be watching that one, so why bother to make sequels that kids can watch. They ruined what could have been great sequels the same way they ruined the Batman saga, by forgetting who the original audience was and ditching the dark side to lighten it up into a flick for kids as a PG rated movie. Robocop 2 I would give 1 and a half stars to. But that's very generous because I give Robocop 3 no stars.
What MGM should have done with Robocop 2 & 3 is put them on the same disc and sold them that way as one of there MGM Double Feature DVD's. And then retailed them at a very cheap price as 2 for 1 on the same disc, or flip side, whatever, but I would give both movies an extra star for being on the same disc so that it wouldn't take up much room if you just decided to get them just to complete the Robocop collection. Or, maybe when H.D.D.V.D comes out Robocop 1, 2, 3 will be released on the one disc. But when you have 2 movies with no bonus features and aren't great movies, only to die hard Robo fans or people who watch them now `cause it's a reminder for something from there child hood then no one's gonnah buy the 2 sequels individually on purpose. But add both of them together on one disc, and maybe 2 bad movies might sneak into an, "ok, maybe I'll get this" category.
Movie Review: Mass marketing Robo for the kids...
Summary: 1 Stars
If the second Robocop movie has some redeemable features, then the third instalment has hardly any. This film is the metamorphous of the Robocop franchise into a kid's marketed commodity. In this respect, this film seems to be a pilot for the children-friendly television series that soon followed (though this film is not be confused WITH the actual television show pilot).
The violence is low key and the inclusion of a child actor as one of the main central characters seems to confirm this. Maybe this was the inevitable conclusion - Robocop has all the hallmarks of a `superhero' and the commercialisation of this towards the children's toy market/comics may gather a new audience (young viewers) but will alienate an older audience at the same time. The superhero theme is cemented with Robocop's new jetpack and the `ninja' style villains (this movie was released when the ninja turtles franchise was in full swing).
The film also lacks the budget of the first two movies, which was a surprise as Robocop 3 was very hyped up to its confusing release date (set back time after time with delays) and was released in Britain straight-to-video.
This film can be viewed as a pilot, of the pilot of the tv series.
Movie Review: Completely horrible
Summary: 1 Stars
Remember how blood curdlingly violent and loaded with dark humor the original Robocop was? Even it's first sequel had it's share, and that was partly what made the original Robocop so great, especially in the hands of Paul Verhoeven. With Robocop 3, Verhoeven is definitely gone, as is the violence and the dark humor, and so is original star Peter Weller, who wisely chose to skip this horrible schlockfest. Robert John Burke (Stephen King's Thinner, frequent guest roles on TV's Rescue Me and Law & Order: SVU) has the unfortunate task of playing Detroit's cyborg cop, taking on police corruption and such. There's not one redeeming factor about Robocop 3; just about everything from the action pieces, to the story, to the effects, are just plain bad. The surprisingly solid cast of supporting actors, including the returning Nancy Allen as Robocop's partner Lewis, along with CCH Pounder, Jill Hennessy, and Daniel Von Bargan, are wasted. All in all, there's a reason this was laughed at by audiences and critics when it was first released, and any fans of Robocop should just do themselves a favor and pretend this movie never happened.