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A sinister rebel group, The Trust, schemes to take control of Delta city.
They transform the dead body of Robocop’s best friend Cable into a machine designed to destroy Robocop. Will Cable remember he is the man inside the machine? |
There be spoilers ahead…
Corruption inside OCP is an overriding theme of many Robocop movies and the TV series, however this has to be the first time I’ve seen it used to great advantage. The previous movie saw the death of John Cable after Robocop’s directives were altered, and here we see the point of having him murdered. He is brought back as another Robocop, and much of this premise follows exactly the same pattern as that of the first Robocop movie. He is first used to ‘frame’ Robocop, not so much to turn him into an enemy but to make the Robocop program appear dangerous. He is then sent out with a special task force to hunt down a fleeing Robocop and put an end to the entire program. However, as with the first movie, his memory is restored to him at the critical moment, and while Robocop (from now on known as Murphy) attempts to save a small family of scavengers/robbers caught in the crossfire, Cable goes after the task force itself.
Unlike the rest of the movies in the Prime Directives series, this one is somewhat forgettable and doesn’t have the pace to back it up. It works well as a means of progressing the storyline and to some extent bringing the character of Ann R. Key, one of the members of the family of robbers (and played by ’24’s Leslie Hope, aka Teri Bauer), into the plot.
That said, I have precious little else to say about this one. It just didn’t grip me in the same way that Dark Justice and Resurrection did. It centered a bit too much, for the most part, on “Look, a new Robocop, see how he can fire with two guns at once and has shiny black armour instead of of a matte grey finish”.
Robocop will return in ‘Resurrection’
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