Word: robocop
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...improved, flying Robocop joins a group of homeless rebels who are fighting against the feds. Among the rebels is an orphaned, nine-year-old computer genius (Remy Ryan) who saves Robocop's life with her technological skill. But that's not it. She's cute...
...theater I actually decided to give "Robocop 3" a chance. This first Robocop was a good killing movie. Sure, it wasn't as deep as the "Six Million Dollar Man" series, but hey--it was fun to watch. The second Robocop bit, but the third, a cross between "Rockateer," "Blade Runner" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," is even worse...
This time Robocop (played with cool brilliance by Robert John Burke, trust me) is back on duty to defend the city of Detroit against mid-'80s Japanese robo-ninjas and federal government agents who are selling the city to the Japanese businessmen. Tasteful...
...Like "RoboCop" and "Basic Instinct," "Hard Target" went through the same tortuous wrangling with the MPAA ratings board; a prologue to the release of "naughty" films which became trite with the blatantly orchestrated flap over "Sliver." Reportedly, "Target" had to be whittled at seven times before it could earn an "R" rating...
...fans as soon as they hit the stores. (Sterling's latest, The Hacker Crackdown, quickly sold out its first hard-cover printing of 30,000.) A piece of cyberpunk performance art, Tubes, starring Blue Man Group, is a hit off-Broadway. And cyberpunk films such as Blade Runner, Videodrome, Robocop, Total Recall, Terminator 2 and The Lawnmower Man have moved out of the cult market and into the mall...