ROBOT JOX

Robot Jox one of the classic old school (hopefully not forgotten) robot movie I have ever seen.

Released in November 21, 1990 this movie is more like a post apocalyptic film where nations fight with giant robots as their representative instead of having thousands of soldiers fighting in the battlefield.

The battle takes place in a huge outdoor arena where spectators also gets to watch at the risk of getting killed while watching.

The film centers only with two powerful nations and what else is a better match up but Soviet and United States of America battling it out with two giant robots with rules of Last Man Standing.

For a 90's film this movie features motion capture filmography technique for the robot fight scenes and the pilots controls the robots with their movements. Yup new kids who are reading this the controls for the robots in this film is similar to the controls used in the cockpits of the Jaegers in the Pacific Rim films but this one features the cockpit having only one, ONE pilot to control one heavy metal robot loaded with weapons, transform and fly and wreck each other to bits.

No giant monsters in this movie since the pilots themselves seems to be monsters already since they want to whack each other to a bloody pulp (if robots here ever bleed they have same effects in the mecha anime series where robots bleed oil and fuel)

One of the best scenes in the film other than the whacking robots

While browsing for some pics of the cockpits I came across this one with a question if there were deliberate references for the classic Robot Jox film from the Pacific Rim film well for me it can be either a coincidence or whoever suggested that pose is a fan of the Robot Jox. I have not read much of the Pacific Rim background even though I have already seen both Pacific Rim films to see if there were any relation to the two films.

This film is highly recommended for those looking for heavy metal giant robot action film from the 90's but of course be wary of the age viewer discretion since this classic film is way too damn bloody on some scenes and some kids might consider copying the fight scenes which most kids do.

(credits to the owners of the pics and vids)

On to the next review/reaction... yes I am an Old School guy