RoboCop: Prime Directives | Page Fletcher, Maurice Dean Wint

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Good for a miniseries

These four movies are like a TV miniseries, so they aren't as good as a movie with a big production budget might be. Still, they're pretty good, and if you're a sci-fi or Robocop fan it's certainly worth the time and money to watch them. It doesn't say on the box what order to watch them in, so here it is: Dark Justice, Meldown, Resurrection, Crash & Burn.

Extra cheese has rarely tasted better!!

Robocop: Dark Justice

Ever since I picked up the trilogy for a whopping $15 I have since became a major fan. Not so much for the decent action, not so much for the surreal satire which is often humorous, but for the man beneath the iron.

Page Fletcher (of Hitchhiker fame) takes over this role and makes it as outstanding as Peter Weller. Though he doesn't have the walk down perfectly, he does talk the talk. Most of the other actors are quite good, the story is actually interesting, and the while the effects are no where near the consistant quality of the feature films I was surprised at how good they are! Despite the sometimes sagging effects of this Canadian mini-series (Robo's suit and walking effect are a bit lame) I must say this does for the small screen practically what the first movie did for the large screen, and that for me says a lot.

This first disc has a LOT of heart and strikes a chord with me when dealing with humanity. I have since ordered the other three and am looking forward to completing the story which obviously picks up on the next installment. A definite buy for any RoboCop fan that loves the humanity more than the explosions.

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RoboCop, RoboCop, RoboCop and More RoboCop

Supposedly RoboCop Prime Directives was originally a TV miniseries released in 2001. I'm not sure where it aired, but each episode is feature film length and the violence/language varies from PG to R rated material.

The series includes Dark Justice, Meltdown, Resurrection, and Crash and Burn...and the movies should be watched in that order for them to make sense.

Page Fletcher (from HBO's The Hitchhiker) stars as RoboCop. He does about as good a job as Robert John Burke did in RoboCop 3. In fact, the whole Prime Directives series is on par with RoboCop 3...and that's not a compliment. It's not really a knock either. It's a declaration that Prime Directives is an average sequel-set to what were two great initial RoboCop films (RoboCop and RoboCop 2).

Prime Directives takes place ten years after the first RoboCop. Alex Murphy/RoboCop is no longer needed in Delta City and is now considered a nuisance by OCP. John Cable, Alex Murphy's former partner, is killed and brought back as a new RoboCop and is instructed to destroy Murphy/RoboCop.

OCP is now in the hands of corrupt executives (one is a malevolent new CEO, one is Cable/RoboCop's ex-wife and one is Murphy/RoboCop's own son) and they have a new technology called SAINT that they will use to run the city and market to consumers "to make all of your decisions for you". But there is a terrorist that wants to infect SAINT with a computer virus that could take down all computers on the net and release a deadly nanotechlogy into humans.

All 4 episodes run apx 90 minutes each, so we're talking about 6 hours of 3-star RoboCop. So if you've got a rainy day and a craving for RoboCop, this series is for you.

As of this writing, the series is available as a set only from Amazon resellers, and the set is about 1/2 the price of buying all 4 separately. But Prime Directives is far from collector caliber, so I'd recommend just finding these to rent, and keep the viewing order that I mentioned earlier in mind.

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