YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Rainey Dawn Everything in this film reeks of lifting many ideas from the original Star TREK TV series! The bridge with the big screen for viewing, personal quarters, the crew is from planet Earth, monitors on the ship for viewing communications with crew-mates, sliding doors, color coded uniforms, aliens holding hostages, etc... I kept expecting to see a rip-off of a Vulcan (Mr. Spock) walk onto the screen. The only Star Wars influence I really see here are the laser-swords and the end fighting where they seem to be mimicking Skywalker and the guys in X-wing fighters, plus Darth Empress saying something about "leave that one to me" (she wanted to get him like Vader did Luke) but mainly the film is borrowing heavily from Star TREK TV series.Story of this movie is OK, special effects fun, terrible acting, but the movie is kinda fun to watch, I'd rather watch Star Trek but this is not a downright awful film to view.5/10

brando647 The nicest thing I can think to say about THE WAR OF THE ROBOTS, an Italian science fiction film from 1978, is that nothing about the world would change if it never existed. If any trace of its existence was magically erased and the memories faded to nothing from the minds of any poor soul unfortunate enough to have watched it, it would affect absolutely nothing. This movie is a non-entity. It's 100 minutes of white noise. THE WAR OF THE ROBOTS is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I can't even claim to have seen it because it's impossible to watch without completely zoning out or finding amusement elsewhere. I've sat through it twice and I'd still struggle to explain the plot in any real detail. It's set somewhere in the future where humans have developed space travel and formed some kind of space fleet. We're introduced to Professor Carr (Jacques Herlin) and what I believe to be either his daughter, his assistant, or both…Lois (Malisa Longo). The professor is working on an atomic reactor doing whatever when his research lab is invaded by a band of strange- looking robots. These robots are gold with golden clothes and gold pageboy wigs, like some sort of gimmicky 60's band. The robots kidnap the professor and Lois, and the Earth forces immediately launch a ship in pursuit. Under the leadership of Captain John Boyd (Antonio Sabato), this crew of interchangeable nobodies will travel across deep space and battle alien forces in a rescue mission no one seems to care about.I'm not being facetious there. No one cares. There's a moment when the Earth vessel has managed to destroy one of the alien ships while suffering damage to their engines in the process. When told they would need to land on a nearby planetoid during repairs…still in the middle of a rescue mission…one of the crew members asks if they'll get a chance to do some fishing while they're down there. You can tell me it was a joke but go back and listen to him. He's not kidding. This mission means nothing to anybody involved. Just watch this crew. There's not an ounce of tension amongst the load of them. No one in this film is capable of emoting anything more than total apathy. There are not one but two separate big reveals/double-crosses in this movie and each one lands with a resounding thud. There isn't so much as an audible gasp from the captain and his crew because everyone in this film would rather be anywhere else but where they are. I think the only person in the film with any sort of energy is Kuba (Aldo Canti), the leader of an oppressed alien species who allies with the human crew against their common enemy. At least he looks like a man on a mission. He's the one making an effort, even if he couldn't hit the broad side of a gas giant when put in control of a ship's weapons. Which he is, during the final "climactic" space battle, because…again…no one on this crew cares if they win or not. Sure, why not? Put the one guy who can't aim in charge of the ship's lasers when we're fighting off an invasion force.Just in case the universally lame performances aren't enough to scare you off, know that THE WAR OF THE ROBOTS moves at a snail's pace. It runs an excruciating 103 minutes and you will feel each and every second pass. Nothing is done with any sense of urgency. Every shot takes its sweet time; every line delivery is done with the utmost casualness. The final space battle is an endurance trial no one should have to suffer, with shots alternating between slow-moving space fighters drifting across the screen and men in cockpits rocking back and forth in front of a rear-projected space field. Ugh! Even when they're dogfighting these people can't seem to muster any excitement. I am struggling to come up with a single redeeming quality of this movie but I've seriously got nothing. I suppose I got a minor kick out of a minor supporting character on the ship's crew (the blonde man with the perm who wears cowboy boots when he's left in charge…couldn't tell you his character's name) because he sounds like a Texan character from a Seth MacFarlane cartoon. His redubbing is good for a chuckle because that voice very obviously does not fit that man. We also get a quick glimpse of some cool makeup effects on Kuba's people. Kuba's the only "normal" looking alien; the rest of his people wear helmets and, whenever they take them off, we get to see their freaky eyes. Kuba describes them as having a "collagenous" membrane that protects their eyes from radiation but I'd describe them as Arnold Schwarzenegger, mid-decompression on Mars in TOTAL RECALL."Yes, I understand. Thanks to this electronic translator." – Captain John "Exposition" Boyd, explaining to Kuba how he's able to communicate. Oh, the convenience.I'm hoping it's not too late. I hope you've stumbled across this while contemplating whether or not to give this movie the time of day. No. No, you shouldn't. There's nothing here for you. THE WAR OF THE ROBOTS is a cinematic wasteland of boredom. I've had more fun standing in line at the post office than I did watching this movie. I would rather sit through TRANSFORMERS 2 twice than watch 30 minutes of this. Seriously, if there's anyone out there who actually likes this movie, I want to know why. Message me. If you're capable of watching this movie, shrugging your shoulders, and honestly exclaiming "It wasn't bad," I want to hear from you. Please enlighten me.

catfish-er I am working my way through the Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection and WAR OF THE ROBOTS (La guerra dei robot)is the fifteenth movie in the set. Released in 1977, WAR OF THE ROBOTS suffers from sub-par special effects and sometime molasses-slow pacing. But that's not the point.The film features stunning cinematography, beautiful sets, elaborate costumes, and wonderful background images. The score is incredible... perhaps the best-part of the film. It propels the action forward, or provides a sublime backdrop. It is never intrusive; but, rather is part and parcel of the action. Also, I found the acting quite credible. And, the dubbing (where necessary) quite good.The best performance in this one goes to Aldo Conti, who played "Kuba the Alien!" The plot is strong, if not a little bit like contemporary films of the genre. But, best, is the twist toward the latter half of the film, as the rescuers find their missing comrades. This was quite a surprise; and, led to an excellent (but drawn out) way to wrap up the story!

Jonny_Numb Call me crazy, but I found "War of the Robots" to be a campy charmer. While the plot--involving a crazy professor and an "empress" (who looks like Zora Kerowa's evil twin), a league of blind alien beings, and a league of Aryan robots--is negligible, the film possesses a low-budget spirit that carries it quite a ways. Sure, it feels like a rip-off of "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Dark Star," and even "Cave Dwellers" (which came a few years later), but it's low-budget fun in the same way that playing with "A-Team" action figures was fun when I was 5. That, and the atrocious special effects, lousy dubbing, chintzier sets, and sci-fi tropes (ray-guns that are really nothing but souped-up flashlights) makes "War of the Robots" especially juicy for a MST3K-style skewering with a group of friends (one wonders how this avoided the Satellite of Love).