Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

KineticSeoul I don't see how anyone that is an adult can find this movie to be entertaining. It might have worked as a comedy, but it goes in a serious direction but it's super lame and comedic. And the acting is just plain atrocious and laughable. On the bright side though this movie is only a hour and 24 minutes. There is just so many obvious plot-holes in this movie and the premise is just ridiculous, well at least how this movie executed it all. This movie can get more corny than the Power Rangers and the special effects is even worse. You can literally tell it's robot action figures on screen that duke it out. Even the fight sequences is so cheesy and super choreographed to the point it almost unbearable to watch. This is one of those movies you pop in and nit pick it to death and constantly bash on it while watching, at least than you can get some amusement out of it. Cause sometimes this movie is so bad it can get slightly funny. One of the female character and another male character looks so similar it can get distracting, I don't know I guess I really didn't like that female character in this movie for some reason. I am doing a lousy job of reviewing this movie to some degree cause this movie was lousy and was a waste of time. For a movie that came out in the early 90's this one could have done better in almost every way. The story is basically about robots fighting in a tournament in the future like gladiators except the fighters use robots to fight each other. Anyways during one of the fight Achilles gets in a fight with a cliché villain and by accident ends up hurting 300 spectators while trying to protect them and he goes on a guilt trip. The cowboy sidekick in this is annoying and the dialogue is just corny...Plain and simple. So yeah I give this movie a 3/10 which is being super generous, cause it's unintentionally funny sometimes and might get a few chuckles out of it. Watch this movie with movie friends and bash this movie while watching and you might get something out of it. I try to be open-minded but I really can't understand how anyone can give this movie above a 7. I don't know if they are trying to stand out or something cause this is obviously a terrible movie. And it isn't so bad it's good either, it's just plain crap.3/10

geminiredblue For some odd reason, this film is rated pretty low. But don't let that deter you for a second. In recent years, especially video games, the word "Mech" has become a buzz word. Numerous games out there feature giant robotic, mechanical battle suits that allow players to hop inside and fight. Back in the early 90s, director Stuart Gordon along with producer Charles Band, set out to make a neat story about athletes who compete in robot battles. Acting is pretty good. The human sub-story isn't all that interesting. But the real selling points would be the remarkable stop-motion robot effects. They are seamless and fluid. Each battle soon turns into a grueling fiasco as the robots tear each other apart. And who couldn't agree with the last line of the movie: "We can both live!" So please gentle viewers and/or Mech fans, hunt down this under-appreciated classic!

keith-moyes-656-481491 Robot Jox has received some spectacularly bad reviews. They are understandable, but not entirely deserved.I dug this movie out of the remaindered bin in my local video store nearly twenty years ago. I watched it once and then expunged it from my memory. Having just seen it again, I feel that time has been kinder to it than I would have expected.In fact, it is two quite different movies. The stop motion and miniatures were shot in America and are pretty good for their budget level. This Robot Jox is a decent enough little movie.The live action was filmed in Italy and that Robot Jox is hard to sit through.Italian cinema boasts some fine movie makers (De Sica, Fellini, Rossellini, Pasolini, Antonioni, Bertolucci, etc.) but popular Italian films are something else entirely. They nearly always have a strange, enervated, drifting feel to them. Even genre greats, like Mario Bava and Dario Agento cannot entirely escape the somnambulistic ambiance that seems to descend on any movie made in an Italian studio. Neither can Stuart Gordon, whose other work is much livelier than this.Beware the curse of Cinecitta!However, this movie would have struggled wherever it was made. The central problem is that it is an idea looking for a story.In a world devastated by war, territorial disputes are settled by gladiatorial contests using giant robots. This is an OK idea, but once you have set it out, what then?All Stuart Gordon and Joe Haldeman came up with was: an inconclusive initial combat; the hero refuses to fight again; an ambitious young woman seeks to take his place; he changes his mind; a spy is revealed; the final battle takes place and again ends in a draw.This is a sequence of events but not a story.I appreciate that anybody who paid good money to see Robot Jox in a movie-theatre would have felt short-changed, but twenty years later I am inclined to be more indulgent. For me, it is starting to look like some of those cheap SF programmers that flooded into theatres and drive-ins in the late Fifties. It is not good, but at least it tries.As such, I find is has some historical interest as a representative product of SF cinema at a particular stage in its development.I am glad I watched it again.

Boba_Fett1138 This movie features a quite ridicules concept of a post WW III apocalyptic world in which wars are being outlawed (yeah right, like that will work) and instead nations let huge robots battle each other to settle disputes and to win land from each other, in stadiums with a crowd and referees and all of that. Nevertheless, because of its quite ridicules concept it also is a really pleasant movie to watch. The movie surely brings some good B-movie entertainment.Yes it's ridicules but it's also quite awesome at the same time. Seeing 2 huge robots battle each other with all kinds of different weapons and gadgets is an awesome sight and something that always speaks to the imagination of basically every guy.It's of course a big B-movie with its story and characters and all but it really isn't a bad looking movie. It's special effects, miniatures and its stop-motion effects are all quite good looking, with the exception of a couple of sequences. At least it's all better than your average "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers", like you would perhaps normally expect from a movie like this.Too bad that the action is sort of being limited. Surely from a movie with such a concept some more fireworks was to be expected. Of course this is mostly due to its quite limited budget of around ten million dollars. Nevertheless it was enough to cause the bankruptcy of its production company. Because of this it also took several years for the movie to be completed and released. When released it also wasn't a great box office success. Nevertheless a sequel got made several years later, called "Robot Wars".It isn't the best written story but its all interesting enough to hold your interest. Of course the movie is quite formulaic, which also makes it predictable but that is also sort of part of its B-movie charm. The story got written by director Stuart Gordon, who also is responsible for the similar genre movies "Fortress" and "Space Truckers", as well as the cult horror classic "Re-Animator". He currently is working on a new Re-Animator movie, called at this moment "House of Re-Animator", which he is attached to, to write and direct.It of course also doesn't feature the best actors. Most actors involved with this movie mostly played and still play in television series and not really any big blockbuster productions. Nevertheless this movie really doesn't feature the worst acting you'll ever see in a genre movie such as this one. I especially liked Paul Koslo, who goes deliciously over-the-top as the movie its very stereotypical Russian villain, with his insane, often random, laugh.Quite enjoyable for what it is.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/