Endless padding of the grim-faced soldiers moving through the dense exotic jungle, followed by the less than riveting Al Festa electronic score, for reasons I still have no idea why.
The actors delivering dialogue in this stilted, absurdly mannered style that had me wondering (as I did with Shocking Dark) if Mattei wasn’t perhaps desperately (and misguidedly) trying to create, realizing how little he had to work with, some kind of cult Rocky Horror phenomena. Locations that should be far away, suddenly reveal themselves right next to each other - sort of like those amazing alley shoot-outs from behind trash cans in the old Police Squad television series, in which a long shot reveals them as shooting at each other from opposite sides of the same trash can (of course, the hilarious Police Squad did it for laughs!). Anderson who acted as creative force behind the monster teamings and you’ll understand how it was mostly worse, rather than better).Ĭharacters head off-screen in one direction when everything says they should be going the other. While the film isn’t an “Alien” rip-off, but instead an obvious Predator knock off, that’s fine, as the “Predator” series, for better or worse, did cross over with the “Alien” franchise (simply consider it was empty-headed hack Paul W.S. Having born witness (with my secret cinematic cabal, naturally) the inept charms of the profoundly budgetarily-challenged 1989 “Aliens” rip-off Shocking Dark from long-time, low-rent Italian shlockmeister Bruno Mattei as part of our ‘all things “Alien” viewings (with “Dark” being a sort of “Aliens”/”The Terminator” hybrid), figured why not pick that nearby Mattei-directed Robowar from four years earlier off the pile of unwashed blurays and drop it in the player. A group of rough-riding commandos (led by the lunkheaded, kinda likable - if more than a tad thespian-challenged - Reb Brown) on a mission (of which its ultimate goal I never could figure out) in an unnamed jungle island, fight it out with some hostile jungle guerillas and save a volunteer hospital worker (Catherine Hickland)… only to find themselves getting picked off, one-by-one, by a half-human/half-machine, government-created killing machine.
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