Tubi Thursday: Robowar (1988)

 As a celebration for my weekly streaming, let's look at an infamous rip-off Film.  Will adding Reb Brown make anything better?

A group of men are sent out to clear an Island of hostiles.  At least, that's what they are told.

Their actual mission- take out a robotic killer.

If you need it done, you might as well bring in BAM aka Bad-Ass Motherf#@kers.

Speaking of BAM, who else could pull off this belly-top but Reb Brown?

Nobody- that's who!

The sort-of titular Robot has been taking out Soldiers during the credits.

Of course, most of them is just overexposed shots of explosions from Strike Commando (also with Reb Brown).

Sadly, this guy is more like the original Predator and not the final product.

Our Soldiers don't know what they are in for, but they will still kick lots of ass.

And yes, Reb will scream while firing a gun.  
It's in the Contract.

Can they stop this Robot killing, well, machine?

Will they follow Predator beat for beat?

I mean, obviously...but you should still see how this '80s Cult Classic plays out.

It's...kind of very dumb.

A dumb Film that sometimes tries to be more.  Robowar is a knock-off of Predator.  Let's be honest and direct now.  If you didn't have one, you wouldn't have the other.  Does that immediately make this Film bad?  No, but it certainly sets the bar nice and low for it.  Rip-offs like this can only be so good.  That said, you can have some fun with this one.  When it isn't padded with long Scenes of walking through the Jungle, you can laugh at the absurdity here.  The Leads are in a group called the Bad-Ass Motherf#@kers.  They love to do the 'yell and fire machine guns' bit. 

They rip-off Predator, but don't quite get why it works.  When Billy stays behind to fight the Predator and dies off-screen, it's dramatic.  When his Italian equivalent does the same, we see the Robot walk up with his gun and just shoot him.  I mean, yeah, why would you stand there with your knife when you see him walk up with his gun, moron?!?  Many of these guys go out like morons, like the last few victims who walk right up the creation (see above) and just get killed.  Silly people.  

Reb and the Writer (coming this fall to ABC) try to randomly milk some drama here as we awkwardly-learn who the Robot is partly-made of.  It's...too little too late.  If you like Predator, check this out.  

If you like dumb Action Films, check this out.  If you can't stand a blatant rip-off, look elsewhere like these guys did...

A pretty infamous rip-off that manages to be just silly enough to work.  It's dumb as rocks, so just bear that in mind.