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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.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I consider myself a fan of the Mexican potboilers made during the '50s and '60s – the plethora of anything-goes flicks that were heavily influenced by American serials and "old dark house" type movies, and which used plot ingredients that ranged from classic horror to cheesy science fiction, Mexican wrestling and beyond. One series made in Mexico in the late '50s was the Aztec Mummy series, in which the mummy clearly owed a debt to the Karloff creation. THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY is the third film in the said series, and it has to be said that the mummy itself looks more like Christopher Lee in Hammer's THE MUMMY here, except with hair over the bandages! This film is without a doubt one of the cheapest I've seen (okay, perhaps not as cheap as some shot-in-the-brush Thai action flicks I've seen that were made in the 1990s, but still...). For the first HOUR of the film, there are copious flashbacks to the previous movies in the series, where footage of the major scenes is virtually reprised with little point or effort. The wraparound segments involve Dr Eduardo Almada narrating the history of the Aztec Mummy, attempting to make some sense of the messed-up plot, and the US dubbers saw fit to dub his character with the most boring, insanely monotonous voice in history. Staying awake becomes a feat of endurance while watching this movie.Finally, we reach new ground in the last ten minutes of the film, which revolve around the mummy fighting a robot (with a human head inside it) inside a broken-down mausoleum. The film promises a climatic showdown, but this is a brief brawl that lasts around a minute, and it's no real surprise when the robot gets smashed to smithereens – after all, the mummy was the star of the show. The fight is a bit annoying, largely due to the dubbing of the mummy's voice – in the flashbacks to previous films, it has an eerie howl, while here it's more of a grunter, bit like a wild boar.The cast are openly hammy and the plot one of the most confusing out there – whether it's the dubbing or just the slapdash, poorly-edited nature of the scenes I don't know. Characters come and go, some have more than one identity, and other plot elements – like the strangely masculine wife who is a reincarnation of the mummy's lost love – are included to no avail and for no purpose. The music is generally annoying, especially with the early Aztec chanting which is a guaranteed turn-off. Some serial-style moments lift things briefly – there's a snake pit full of (dead) snakes, for example, and some poor guy has acid poured over his face in an accident before turning into a Krueger-style henchman – and sometimes the cheesy dubbing provides some minor amusement. But the film is generally lacking in entertainment value – the mummy's radioactive touch burns its victims, but we only get to see this process happen to one minor character in a (very) effective show-off in the cemetery. Had there been more scenes like that, this film might have got a better rating, but for 99% of the time it's a real dud.

No longer able to keep a secret, a doctor and his friends learn their efforts of safeguarding a valuable treasure is thwarted by a gangster trying to steal the belongings of an Aztec tomb guarding by a living mummy using his hand-made robot and race to stop him.This was certainly an interesting and enjoyable Mexican drive-in fare. What really works for this one is the Gothic atmosphere is quite creepy at times, giving this one some chilling moments along the way. That it leads off with the Aztec ceremony flashback, a complete elaborate Aztec layout which has a great detail and feel that when it gets to the action of the rituals, from the chanting and the lineup of the maidens, to the actual banishment ritual shown being completed, is a fine start and leads into the big series of underground sequences in the caves. The first sequence, where they break into the tomb and see the mummy laying there in the room with the skeleton and bringing it back to life chasing them throughout the eerie caves when they return again the second time, and the third encounter interrupting the creature' sacrifice attempt leading to the brawl around the tomb makes this an incredibly enjoyable, creepy sequence. Likewise, the sprawl through the cemetery where she passes the elaborate monuments and tombstones is a chilling Gothic set- piece, the return trip leading the robot through is quite fun and there's even more good points from the juxtaposition of the Gothic and cheesy here by featuring scenes like that of the cheesy-looking robot crossing through a Gothic cemetery or the creature's attack on a hideout dispatching a series of gangsters. That also extends to the overall look of the two titular creature which is quite readily apparent of its' low- budget nature throughout, which also brings up the first of the flaws here with this one. The biggest thing against this is that so little of what happens here can be taken seriously because the cheapness is much too distracting here, from the utterly pathetic robot design as it's one of the worst-looking ones in the history of robots on film and the general feel of the sets here give off a pretty obvious low-budget. It becomes all the more obvious in this version where this one decides to focus on the flashbacks of the others as there's three different times this one stops to bring those flashbacks up again which shows a pretty obvious quality-shift between this one and the others, and then partially ruins the effect by talking over the whole scene with a narration that takes away from the scene by describing what's happening during the sequence. The last problematic effort is the length at barely an hour long and keeping so many of the big scenes, from the hide-out assault and the finale fight between the two titular creatures hidden away till the back-end while there's other issues to deal with in such a short effort. Otherwise, this one wasn't all that bad.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.

*Spoiler/plot- 1957, Rather mad scientist movie about a scientist robot makers that gets his human heart powered robot to attack and steal an secret Aztec treasure protected by a dangerous Aztec mummy. The Mexican wrestler, The Saint, becomes a policeman to oversee the drama.*Special Stars- Ramon Gay, Rosa Arenas *Theme- Mummies are too dangerous.*Based on- Frankenstein and mummy myths.*Trivia/location/goofs- Mexican film featuring private investigator wrestlers, Aztec mummies and robots.*Emotion- The is solid fodder for the MST3000 TV show for the worst films. This film has a tremendous lead-up during the suspense of this epic. The overly dramatic corny scene music out does what's on the screen. The characters mostly over act with huge gestures ala a theatrical performance. The villain, The Bat, eats up the scenery and out shines all others in the scenes with him. The money spent on the human atomic robot of the villain is ordinary to see. The use of the robot after the build up is very slow and pedantic for in-terminal minutes of boredom. The end has the Aztec mummy to be the honorable hero warrior as he destroys the robot after the electronic control is broken with a gunshot from police. The female lead gives the mummy the stolen Aztec relics that she stole many long minutes ago. The mummy just leaves peaceably and the shows end is a real downer. Not drama, no fight scenes, no nothing worth watching. A campy film that makes the ring wrestlers of that time into heroic men that fight to restore the Aztec treasures and mummy.

2/3 of this movie is recycled footage of the previous movies, a fact that's sadly obvious even to someone like myself who hasn't seen the original movies. And somehow it feels like a rip-off even though I haven't seen the stuff before. It's like that episode of every TV show where the characters sit around a photo album or something and you just see recycled footage of other episodes. I've seen some producers do extended montages of recycled footage, but never anything beyond 5 minutes or so. This movie is mostly stuff that had already been seen by audiences, so you could mount a case that it's one of the biggest rip-offs ever foisted on the motion picture public.I got to see it in the theater, in a 16mm print, which is good enough I suppose considering how rare this kind of material must be on film these days. I give the movie some credit for semi-convincing Gothic atmosphere and for unintentional humor, but that's about it. The Aztec mummy monster looks good, even has some mobility in his face which is better than most movie monsters of the period. But the robot is pitiful, although it's interesting that they made the human face totally visible. It's a "robot human" or something of the sort as they somewhat explain in the movie. I think that's considered an android. So technically in hard sci-fi terms this movie should be called "Android vs. the Aztec Mummy", but I doubt anyone was too worried about technicalities here anymore than they were worried about quality. In fact the movie is so sloppily put together that it makes television look good. Even the dubbing from Mexican into English is lazy and weak -- for example at one point the hero says "I might as well begin at the beginning...." what the heck kind of translation is that? Couldn't they at least have him say "start at the beginning" so that it doesn't sound repetitive? A high school newspaper editor could have fixed the screenplay of this movie. It's the epitome of utilitarian film-making, just absolutely nothing is in this movie that doesn't need to be there for the basic commercial purpose of the film. They put no more effort into making it than they had to, and considering the extensive recycled footage I would doubt that they actually spent more than a week making this movie.I will now cease posting about it on the principle that I don't want to expend more energy in the process of commenting than the creators of the movie actually expended while making it.