Brad P
Bereft of originality at every turn, Robowar might've been a better film if it had half the capability or charisma of Predator. Instead, it's about as lame as Jean-Claude Van Damme in that ridiculous outfit that originally was the Predator. Fun for a goof but, as an actual film, it's pretty damn dull.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
03/09/23
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My God, Bruno. How did you do it? You made a mashup/clone of Predator and Robocop and made it work. In many ways cooler than the original films. Not as good mind you, but in some ways more fun. The characters are cool and their decisions make no sense. Wonderful. He killed Peel...and Peel was my friend.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
10/24/21
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Pretty terrible Italian mash-up of "Robocop" and "Predator." Reb Brown, best known for "Uncommon Valor," Conan knock-off "Yor: Hunter from the Future" and the hilariously awful 1970s made-for-TV Captain America movies plays Maj. Murphy Black, the Arnold "Predator" analogue, leading a commando group on a jungle mission, only to find themselves being hunted by a deadly cyborg. Checking the film's credits, "Robowar" was directed by Bruno Mattei, who specialized in cheapie Italian exploitation flicks, ranging from women in prison to nunsploitation to zombie to mondo documentary to cannibal to Nazisploitation films. However, Mattei has made a few enjoyable films, but the biggest tipoff this film is going to be a terrible movie is that the writers are the same folks who wrote and directed "Troll 2," which if you're not familiar is widely considered the worst film of all time (yes, even worse than "Plan 9 From Outer Space"). Unfortunately for "Robowar" it's not really a so-bad-it's-good kind of film as is "Troll 2" so you can't even be ironically entertained by it. You're best off skipping this one, though if you really need an Italian cyborg movie, watch Sergio Martino's "Hands of Steel" instead.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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We start off and see a hunter thing killing. This thing is an advanced killing half alien half machine. When you get to see from his perspective you get a dose of what looks to be a Gameboy screen. Not like a Gameboy color either. Like 2 colors and pixels everywhere.
Next you see a special forces team entering his area they are tough guys like... In predator. All of them are racist pricks that comment on each other's genitals and sexual orientation... You know COOL guys.
This movie has a diverse cast that can't act. Since it's a military jungle movie it's pretty much a sausage fest. the special effects look like garbage. Pretty much all like predator...
If you watched predator and thought "masterpiece" only it would be better without a script or any talent...
THEN THIS IS THE MOVIE FOR YOU.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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Written by the demented imaginations behind TROLL II, this is little more than a carbon copy of PREDATOR with a cyborg instead of an extraterrestrial and non-charismatic sacks of flab instead of beefy action A-listers—with the alien minds now making the movie instead of starring in it.
Derivative and nonsensical, it's definitely bad and worthy of next to no stars—but 4.5 out of 5 on the so-bad-it's-good scale.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/30/23
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Having witnessed the Coca-Cola fuelled high-jinks of Mac and Me earlier this week, I prepared myself for yet another barefaced rip-off in exploitation God Bruno Mattei's Robowar. I love Predator, the movie it's based on, but it's hard to tell if Mattei does too. Was it really necessary to take one of Arnie's greatest movies, strip away the budget, exciting action, tense atmosphere, tongue-in-cheek humour and any semblance of story, and replace it with cheesy music, terrible dialogue, laughable effects and crushingly repetitive sequences where the characters simply wander aimlessly through the jungle, hardly ever questioning what they're supposed to be doing? All it's good for is as the basis of a drinking game, where you and your friends take a shot whenever a scene, plot element or line of dialogue is lifted from Predator. If you make it to the end still conscious, you deserve a medal.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/26/23
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