RoboCop: Prime Directives (2000– )

Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has ... See full summary »

Stars:

Page Fletcher, Maurice Dean Wint, Maria del Mar

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Page Fletcher	...	Alex J. Murphy (4 episodes, 2001)
Maurice Dean Wint	...	John Terrence Cable (4 episodes, 2001)
Maria del Mar	...	Sara Cable (4 episodes, 2001)
Anthony Lemke	...	James Murphy (4 episodes, 2001)
Kevin Jubinville	...	Damian Lowe (4 episodes, 2001)
David Fraser	...	Ed Hobley (4 episodes, 2001)
Geraint Wyn Davies	...	David Kaydick (3 episodes, 2001)
Leslie Hope	...	Ann R. Key (3 episodes, 2001)
Rebeka Coles-Budrys	...	Jordan (3 episodes, 2001)
Marni Thompson	...	Abby Normal (2 episodes, 2001)
Françoise Yip	...	Lexx Icon (2 episodes, 2001)
Richard Fitzpatrick	...	Albert Bixler (2 episodes, 2001)
Tedde Moore	...	The Old Woman (CEO) (2 episodes, 2001)

Storyline

Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has begun to feel his age. Murphy finds himself nearly obsolete, and must deal with the fact that his now-grown son James is an OCP executive, unaware that his father is still alive. Also, Murphy's former partner, John Cable, has returned to Delta City as its new Security Commander. But slowly, new enemies arise, and Murphy and Cable begin an investigation into a mysterious villain known as the Bone Machine, unaware that they are coming dangerously close to exposing an evil group of OCP executives known as The Trust... which James Murphy is a part of. Desperate to prevent their sinister plans from being revealed, The Trust programs Murphy to kill John Cable...

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Plot Keywords:

robocop | futuristic | brutal cop | m 16 | pistol | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some violence

Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 July 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

RoboCop: Prime Directives - Crash and Burn

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Robocop Productions Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

375 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

'Page Fletcher' was originally offered the role of 'Alex J. Murphy/RoboCop' in RoboCop but turned it down due to a recent falling out with television producers in previous TV series and other TV work.

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Goofs

At the end of the second part, Meltdown, this quote is given: "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots." The film credits it to Thoreau, which is impossible, as the word "robot" did not enter the English language until more than sixty years after Thoreau's death. This quote is actually from Erich Fromm.

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Quotes

RoboCable: What are you prepared to do?
James Murphy: Whatever it takes.

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Connections

Follows RoboCop (1994)

User Reviews

A beast from hell

You've not seen much worse than this! The RoboCop franchise once held so much promise, so much potential. It quickly disintegrated into cheap kiddie garbage.

The first RoboCop movie was awesome and is no doubt a cult classic. Almost immediately this was followed by a crudely animated cartoon show in 1988 and then, RoboCop 2, the under-rated sequel was totally misunderstood on release but by the time RoboCop 3 came out Orion Pictures had long gone out of business and it was unceremoniously dumped into cinemas without any kind of ad campaign or publicity. Quite appropriate too as it's a moronic pile of crap aimed at the kids.

And it got worse after that! An uber-cheap, live-action TV-series came and went within a single season and yet another animated show 1998 (selling RoboCop to the kids is like making Bratz dolls based on House of 1000 Corpses!) and one of the worst video-games ever in 2003. If you think this franchise couldn't get any worse wait until you get a load of Prime Directives. It stomps what's left of Robo right into the maggot-infested mud.

The story is hardly worth mentioning but if you're that interested it involves Robo feeling old and obsolete, Delta City politics (now located in Canada, a poor substitute for the real Detroit) and some crazed employee at OCP (the company went out of business in RoboCop 3!) trying to take over with his ultimate doomsday device. Robo's kid is now a fully-grown exec and his ex-partner (a man with a very, very dodgy moustache) has been killed and made into a new RoboCop. They drag this crap out over 375 minutes and you feel every precious second of it.

I could forgive the cheapness if the makers were enthusiastic or spirited or if the actors weren't so bored they are about to keel over and die. The Robo suits look terrible and could fall apart at any minute. The nobody playing him makes Robert John Burke's performance in RoboCop 3 look Oscar-worthy. Instead of striding with a heaving titanium chest he kind of stumbles and bumbles like an old man without a zimmer-frame and has as much trouble ascending stairs as ED-209 did descending them. It's as if he was mimicking C-3PO.

Say what you want about the declining quality of the films. At least they all had great music. Prime Directives has noise that is painful to the ears and lethal to the soul and mind. Goddamn, I want to erase this horrid mini-series from my memory but I can't. I need a shrink!

This junk should be scrapped and left to rust. Not even the most dedicated and forgiving RoboCop fan should suffer this guff. Wise people such as myself will realise this has as much to do with the TRUE RoboCop as Supergran does with Clark Kent.