Truly, only in the old days of Hong Kong could you find such a genre crossover. The cream of the crop from this early 90s wave of Hong Kong trash was, as far as I’m concerned, 1992’s Naked Killer – but it seems the way may have been paved for that classic slice of Cantonese sleaze by this earlier trash-tastic mix of kung-fu, sci-fi and sexploitation.Įssentially, Robotrix takes the basic premise of Robocop, and replaces all the sophisticated satire with a lame-brained police procedural/slapstick comedy/rape revenge/soft porno movie. Sigh remember the good old days before China took over Hong Kong? (Cue Brutal As Hell being immediately barred by all search engines in China, assuming it wasn’t already.) It seems like such a distant memory now, but there was indeed a time when a large portion of the most badass and batshit insane B-movies out there came from Hong Kong movies in which the words ‘too much’ never applied, and the only things to kept off the table were good taste and logic. Smart sci-fi of that breed is always welcome… but then, there’s sci-fi like Robotrix. It was only recently that I offered up an enthusiastic review of The Machine, a new British movie which explores the ramifications of a human consciousness transferred into an android in an intelligent, mature way.
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