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Sick Product of a Sick System

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

This wasn't as bad as most make it out to be,, if it was that bad I would have rated it a 1 or a 2. that being said , this wasn't particularly good either no mistake about that,, a pair of astronauts are kidnapped by alien forces who end up being robots. base camp sends out some soldiers to rescue them, and they end up fighting a strange race of people on a strange planet who later make friends with them and join in the help to save their friends,, so the two that were kidnapped end up having their own agenda and are really traitors against the earthlings,,, weird movie I must say,, but kind of fun also in a weird way.

Some people might wonder why Italian filmmakers, who have countless times in the past imitated popular American films and film genres, didn't cash in that many times after "Star Wars" was released. The obvious answer is that it takes considerable funds to make a space saga, funds that Italians didn't have in great numbers. But a few Italian filmmakers did try to cash in on "Star Wars" despite limited budgets, this being one of them. In fairness to the filmmakers behind "War Of The Robots", unlike other Italian space sagas, this one does its own thing for the most part and has very little material that one could say was imitating things from "Star Wars". But apart from that, it's hard to think of anything positive to say about this movie. The special effects and sets, while occasionally amusing, are for the most part really shoddy and pathetic. The characters are really thinly written - not one character stands out enough to make you remember him or her long after the movie is over. The story is really boring, really lacking regular action sequences. And the little action there is comes across as really boring, even the climatic space battle. There are occasional unintentional chuckles, but not enough to make it worthwhile to slog through this otherwise dismal enterprise.

For fans of terrible movies, this one has everything you could wish for:crazy plotawful acting (my favourites are the kissing scenes, where they look like they're trying to attack each others' faces, and the pathetic fight scenes)really stupid dialogue, like: "get em, guys!"unflattering futuristic outfits, including mini skirts over tights for the men.baddies in ridiculous blonde wigscool musiclow budget sets (I especially love the office chairs they sit on in the spaceship,and how they simulate accelerating by quickly leaning back in their chairs. Unfortunately, it's very hard to all do this at the same time! The best scene with the office chairs was when they were pretending there was turbulence by all wobbling about on the chairs in different directions!)If you love schlocky movies, you'll enjoy this one.

The potential for something very entertaining here is unmistakable. War of the Robots is a clear Italian rip-off of Star Wars. And it does amuse me to think of the people who unwittingly must have pitched up in cinemas in the 70's to see this on the back of that massive blockbuster. I'm not too sure if they would have been very impressed to be perfectly honest.The robots of the title are a group of hilariously silver suited androids that sport haircuts similar to Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones circa 1968. The Brian Joneses are the villains and they appear throughout the movie in laser gun battles and light-sabre fights. They are the best thing about War of the Robots. Because overall, this is an overlong yawn-fest, with way too little going on to excuse it's running time. As camp entertainment it's OK but there simply isn't enough decent quality cheese to make up for the tedium.Watch it for the Brian Joneses and then turn it off.