Review – Robocop 3

Two things about this movie sort of caught me by surprise. The first was that Peter Weller proved a lot harder to replace than I would have imagined. At the outset my guess would have been that just about any stooge from central casting could have adopted the stiff movements and wooden acting that Weller used to characterize the protagonist in the first two Robocop movies. But oddly enough, his replacement seems to lack a certain je ne sais quoi. And Weller wasn’t exactly the only no-show in this second sequel. The only other returning characters are the corporate sidekick and Nancy Allen (who manages to get killed fairly early on). The other thing that surprised me was that Frank Miller, one of the people responsible helping comic books become “graphic novels,” works the reverse effect in his screenplay for this movie. The high-quality action of the first two has been replaced by a parade of cheap clichés. In other words, sort of like a trite, boring, pre-Frank-Miller-style comic book. See if desperate