Okay; I'm not a director; I'm not a producer and I may not be a good actor, even, but I could have done everything on this movie better(including sweeping the sets afterwards)!
R.O.T.O.R. seems caught in a cultural time warp; see, it's set in the "not-too-distant-future", but was made in 1989, while all the actors look like they're livin' like it's 1979 (even feathered hair makes a comeback! AAAGHH!!); and the technological advancements still haven't gone beyond 5 1/4" floppies.
And speaking of floppy, the story's pretty floppy, too. Seems an android created to fight crime (gee, what an original idea - someone call Paul Verhoeven...) gets dis-combobulated and goes around shooting everyone in sight. Meantime, our hero of the movie hunts him down. Our hero is a real cowboy, pardner, right down to the leather elbow pads on his jacket (does ANYONE wear those anymore? Oh well...).
It looks like the future is mostly made up of malls, small rooms, quaint restaurants, one other police robot that someone must have got as a Heathkit do-it-yourself jobbie and BADLY stop-motion animated R.O.T.O.R.s. But the SOUNDTRACK! Someone's been spending a little too much time around the synthesizer, ya think?
The dialogue, when not delivered with brain-numbing monotonality, is just too stupid for words. Indeed, I was so zonked out by the stupidity of it all, I'm lucky my brain hasn't blotted out this experience all together.
It's not just that "R.O.T.O.R." is merely bad, mind you; it's dumb. Dumb in a harmful way. "Touching the electric fence TWICE" dumb. "Sticking your hand down a garbage disposal" dumb. SO dumb that it's no wonder you've heard nothing about any of the people involved in it since.
In closing, let me just say that if any of the people who made "R.O.T.O.R." happen to read this, let me ask you: did you clear this with the "RoboCop" people before making it?
No stars. Bottom of the barrel is still too high to reach for "R.O.T.O.R."
R.O.T.O.R. seems caught in a cultural time warp; see, it's set in the "not-too-distant-future", but was made in 1989, while all the actors look like they're livin' like it's 1979 (even feathered hair makes a comeback! AAAGHH!!); and the technological advancements still haven't gone beyond 5 1/4" floppies.
And speaking of floppy, the story's pretty floppy, too. Seems an android created to fight crime (gee, what an original idea - someone call Paul Verhoeven...) gets dis-combobulated and goes around shooting everyone in sight. Meantime, our hero of the movie hunts him down. Our hero is a real cowboy, pardner, right down to the leather elbow pads on his jacket (does ANYONE wear those anymore? Oh well...).
It looks like the future is mostly made up of malls, small rooms, quaint restaurants, one other police robot that someone must have got as a Heathkit do-it-yourself jobbie and BADLY stop-motion animated R.O.T.O.R.s. But the SOUNDTRACK! Someone's been spending a little too much time around the synthesizer, ya think?
The dialogue, when not delivered with brain-numbing monotonality, is just too stupid for words. Indeed, I was so zonked out by the stupidity of it all, I'm lucky my brain hasn't blotted out this experience all together.
It's not just that "R.O.T.O.R." is merely bad, mind you; it's dumb. Dumb in a harmful way. "Touching the electric fence TWICE" dumb. "Sticking your hand down a garbage disposal" dumb. SO dumb that it's no wonder you've heard nothing about any of the people involved in it since.
In closing, let me just say that if any of the people who made "R.O.T.O.R." happen to read this, let me ask you: did you clear this with the "RoboCop" people before making it?
No stars. Bottom of the barrel is still too high to reach for "R.O.T.O.R."