“RoboCop 3” is an appalling action flick that doesn’t know when it is onto something. It takes RoboCop and makes him absolutely useless in every sense of the word. It completely squanders all its assets and is an embarrassment.

This time Robert John Burke stars as the futuristic law enforcer RoboCop. OCP (the company that made RoboCop) is evicting people from their homes for construction as they promise to build the new Delta City. However, that’s not really their plan for the citizens of old Detroit. RoboCop must disobey his order and ‘prime directives’ if he is to save the people of his city and stop a group of corporate individuals from making money via kicking people onto the streets.

RoboCop is horrible this time around. Robert John Burke severely lacks the charisma Peter Weller had in the previous ones. In this one, RoboCop takes damage when it could easily be avoided, he walks at the pace of snail and spends an awful lot of time laid on the floor. For what is supposed to be a technical achievement, RoboCop acts more like the malfunctioning ED-209 (he makes a cameo here). The other characters are rubbish, especially the villain and the little kid.

“RoboCop 3” has bits that could be funny but it doesn’t take any effort to make them funny and there are loads of action scenes they skim over. The scene where RoboCop fights back against OCP on the streets is over in a minute and RoboCop only gets a few bad guys when there seemed to be loads to start with. Also, he gets into the OCP building with too much ease. Why not have him forced to go through the building fighting really high-tech security robots or something? The acting is bad, RoboCop is a waste of space in this one, the action scenes are more than underwhelming, it’s not funny and the special effects are quite frankly awful.