RoboCop (franchise) "they need a husband... and a father. I cannot be that. But I can protect them." RoboCop appears in "RoboCop: Prime Directives" played by Page Fletcher. The series takes place ten years after "RoboCop", RoboCop has become outdated, tired, and quasi-suicidal. Delta City (formerly Detroit) is now considered the safest place on Earth, and he is no longer viewed as particularly necessary. The first half of the series focuses on Alex Murphy's former partner, John T. Cable, who is slain by RoboCop due to his system being hacked and being programmed to terminate Cable. Cable is then resurrected as a
RoboCop 3 recouping its estimated $22 million production budget. After "RoboCop 2"'s score which was composed by Leonard Rosenman, the "RoboCop" original composer Basil Poledouris returned to do the soundtrack score and brought back many of the RoboCop themes that were missing from "RoboCop 2." "RoboCop 3" was near universally panned by critics. The film was also a bomb at the box office only earning $10 million on a $22 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes gives "RoboCop 3" a score of 3% based on 30 reviews, with an average score of 3.1 out of 10. Metacritic rates it 40 out of 100 based