Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has been bought out by Kanemitsu Corporation, a Japanese robotics company, and they have begun the Delta City makeover of crime-ridden Old Detroit, Michigan, by employing a ruthless mercenary outfit dubbed Urban Rehabilitation Officers (Rehabs for short) under the command of Paul McDaggett (John Castle) to drive people out of their homes. In the chaos, 9-year-old Nikko (Remy Ryan) becomes separated from her parents and is taken in by an underground resistance group fighting against the takeover. When Kanemitsu (Mako) sends in his own Ninja android Otomo (Bruce Locke), RoboCop Murphy () and his partner Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) have to decide where their loyalties lie: with the people of Detroit or with the OCP.
RoboCop 3 is the third movie in the RoboCop series, preceded by RoboCop (1987) (1987) and RoboCop 2 (1990) (1990). The screenplay for RoboCop 3 was written by American graphic novelist Frank Miller and RoboCop 3 director Fred Dekker, based on characters created by American screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner for Robocop. Major themes of the plot were taken from Miller's original (rejected) draft of RoboCop 2, which was eventually turned into a nine-part comic book series called Frank Miller's RoboCop (2007) by Frank Miller and Juan Jose. The series has been rebooted with RoboCop (2014) (2014).
Peter Weller was filming Naked Lunch (1991) (1991) at the time. Consequently, Robert John Burke was brought in to play Murphy instead. (Similar was the case with Daniel O'Herlihy who portrayed the Old Man. He was off working on Twin Peaks (1990-1991) and other projects, so Rip Torn was cast as the CEO, a new character having roughly or exactly the same role in the OCP hierarchy as the Old Man did/would.)
Having defeated Otomo, RoboCop puts on his flying pack to recharge. Meanwhile, the Detroit police have all quit the OCP and are currently fighting with the Cadillac Heights resistance against the Rehabs. Just when it looks like the Rehabs are winning, Murphy comes flying in and hits them with a smart bomb. He then flies to the OCP building and confronts McDaggett, charging him with the murder of Anne Lewis. Suddenly, Murphy is attacked by two more Otomos, but Nikko is able to reprogram them from her wireless laptop computer to decapitate each other. Unfortunately, the Otomos were programmed with a thermal fail-safe device set to explode. Murphy puts his flying pack back on and airlifts Nikko and Doctor Lazarus (Jill Hennessy) from the building, leaving McDaggett behind. The Otomos explode, taking out the whole top of the OCP building. In the streets, the residents are already cleaning up. Kanemitsu and the CEO of OCP arrive in their cars. The CEO (Rip Torn) suggests they gentrify the neighborhood with strip malls, fast food chains and popular entertainment, but Kanemitsu fires him on the spot and, instead, bows to Murphy in honor. In the final scene, the CEO asks Murphy what he's called, "Murphy, is it?" Murphy replies, "My friends call me Murphy. You call me RoboCop."
The original RoboCop film, RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3, the RoboCop TV series and then RoboCop: Prime Directives. Supposedly the timeline starts in 2015 (as perhaps revealed in one of the series); the second film taking place within months of the first, the third film taking place five years after the the second film, the first series taking place within months of the third film, and Prime Directives (the second series, a miniseries) taking place eight years after the first series.
Due to the strict policy of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) with regard to martial arts weapons, two short scenes featuring a nunchaku are cut in the old VHS version (rated 15). The DVD by Columbia features the same cuts, whereas the DVD by MGM was released uncensored in the UK.
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