It’s a bad sign when I start watching a movie, and immediately think that something is wrong with the plot. The city has clearly made a deal with OCP. Why do they have to go in and round people up? They aren’t actually homeless there, some of them clearly own and rent. I shouldn’t start the movie by thinking that the bad guys are in the right.
To make matters worse, Robocop overreacts. He threatens the forces looking to evict people. Even if we agree with him, if this were real life… I would consider the cop to be out of control.
Like the second movie, Robocop is out of commission for much of the movie. In this one, I’m not really positive why he is. Yes, he was damaged, but his problem seems to be electrical. How does he get enough power to remain functioning? Why does Robocop seem to prefer absurdly destructive methods of doing things? Instead of driving up to assist his fellow officers, he drives to the top of a building, then drives the car off the edge so that he can land nearby.
The story has a bunch of weird little turns, even as the core of the plot is very simplistic. It’s not very rewarding either. The specialized baddie that Robocop has to fight in the last reel is bizarre, but doesn’t have much personality. It seems to be some kind of sword-fighting robot.
What the movie has going for it is a pretty notable cast. In particular, it’s great to see Stephen Root in an earlier role. Lots of familiar faces sprinkled throughout.
There’s a tone throughout the movie, and it becomes more obvious near the end, that this movie was adjusted in order to sell toys. Robocop gets to fly around with a jetpack near the end. It’s absurd. There’s a cameo by ED-209, again, strangely conspicuous. And even with these kid-centric developments, the movie is violent. It’s really violent, just less gory. It’s a strange distinction, but Robocop sprays bullets all over the place, unlike his usual method of careful targeting.
A pretty bad movie. At least it’s out of my queue now.
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