Robocop 3

Review by Thomas Glorieux:

With each Robo there seems to be another stunt to copy. The first one at least maintained its human standards and didn't do crazy stuff. The second began doing things a bit more robotic and fought with robots and hanged on running trucks. The third in the series at least flew with his car of a building, with other words, you find out that there is a lot that keeps Murphy in his iron armor. The second score is nothing but a faded memory and a lot of people forgot the mere fact that Leonard Rosenman composed that score. At least Robocop 3 brings the original composer back while main star Murphy was replaced in the foreground. The main material that drives the third installment is still the Robocop theme, but much time it doesn't get, nor receives it its finest performance, and Poledouris' main material attends to sound partly the same and inspired from other scores, making Robocop 3 the less attractive listen and more of a non Robocop score.

Its the main rough sound that I keep missing sometimes when I hear some rather lovely themes, that don't seem to fit with the idea you ought to have of the movie. Poledouris didn't bring at least the one track that spiced up the circumstances, it feels half but interesting and only slightly does it offer interesting stuff, the problem is that it usually is the repeated material of the first one. This happened in the lovely spoiler track 'Death of Lewis', the problem with Robocop 3 is that nothing really strikes out, nothing sticks in the mind for long and I didn't like the bad guy sound heard in 'Robo Fights Otomo'. It doesn't fit and to tell the truth, the main material doesn't offer one bit of the main melodic approach we discovered in Robocop or other Poledouris' efforts.

The soundtrack has its tiny highlights but I feel that there are a lot of better scores to be heard, mainly the first one because on its own there is nothing that guarantees Robocop 3 to strike high standards with the fans of the robotic super hero. Repeating the material is nice and what would the Robocop score be without its illustrious main theme, but you have to make the rest interesting and that part missed me completely. For its embarrassingly 28 minutes it offers not much, for its running time it could've brought more, but if they picked the best cues then we ought to feel ourselves lucky. Robocop 3 is nothing to embrace once you discover that the first one offered so much more, and half the movie and half composer barely could be inspired with more interesting stuff. It stands nice as a part of the Robocop collection, it stands last because it doesn't portray the invincible character agent Murphy at least seemed to have.

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Tracks

Single Disc

1. Main Title / The Resistance (2.36)

2. Robo Saves Lewis (3.56)

3. Resistance Base (1.36)

4. Otomo Underground (1.49)

5. Murphy's Memories (4.36)

6. Robo Fights Otomo (4.27)

7. Nikko And Murphy (1.53)

8. Death Of Lewis (3.47)

9. Sayonara, McDaggit (3.39)

Total Length: 28.33

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=== Link to Composer Site: Basil Poledouris ===