RoboCop 3

RoboCop 3 is an American science fiction movie of the cyborg/action subgenres. It was directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier based on a story by Michael Miner. The film was produced by Orion Pictures and released theatrically in the United States on June 22nd, 1990. The movie spawned two feature film sequels, a live-action television series, a 2000 television miniseries and two animated spin-off programs.

The movie stars Peter Weller as police officer Alex J. Murphy, Nancy Allen as police officer Anne Lewis, Daniel O'Herlihy as the president of Omni Consumer Products (referred to colloquially as the "Old Man"), Ronny Cox as antagonist Dick Jones and Kurtwood Smith as psycho-villain Clarence Boddicker. Other stars included Miguel Ferrer, Robert DoQui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry and Paul McCrane.

The film takes place in Detroit, Michigan of the near future, which has fallen into near economic ruin and has become a demilitarized haven for psychotic criminals packing hi-tech hardware. The mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products enters into a contract with the Detroit Police Department to provide them with state-of-the-art peacekeeping technology. After their attempts to create robotic sentries meets with failure, they turn towards the world of cybernetics, converting dying police officer Alex Murphy into the one-man law enforceer, RoboCop.

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Cyborg | Detroit | Disfigurement | Gunshot victims | Hospital | Impalement | Michigan | Police department | Police officer | Severed limb | Smoking | Superhuman strength