Desafío en el valle de la muerte

Título original: Robot Jox

1989
PG
1h 25min

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Action Sci-Fi Thriller

En un futuro lejano, la humanidad ha abandonado las guerras mundiales en favor de las batallas individuales. El mundo se ha dividido en dos superpotencias opuestas, cada una de ellas represe... Leer todoEn un futuro lejano, la humanidad ha abandonado las guerras mundiales en favor de las batallas individuales. El mundo se ha dividido en dos superpotencias opuestas, cada una de ellas representada por campeones entrenados.En un futuro lejano, la humanidad ha abandonado las guerras mundiales en favor de las batallas individuales. El mundo se ha dividido en dos superpotencias opuestas, cada una de ellas representada por campeones entrenados.

Dirección
- Stuart Gordon
Guionistas
- Stuart Gordon
- Joe Haldeman
Elenco

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Dirección
- Stuart Gordon
Guionistas
- Stuart Gordon
- Joe Haldeman
Elenco

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Premios
- 1 nominación en total

Trivia
The screams of the spectators being crushed by the giant robot were later sampled in the song "The Becoming" by Nine Inch Nails.

Errores
When Athena confronts Achilles in his apartment to render him unconscious with an injector, it's all too easy to spot Athena pulling what is clearly a glue gun out of her outfit. This is then "matched" to a much better looking prop injector in an insert - followed by a cut back to the shot with the original glue gun.

Citas
Achilles: You can live.
Alexander: Yes, if I kill you with this!
Achilles: We can both live!
Alexander: We are already dead. We are Robot Jox!

Versiones alternativas
SPOILER: MGM's R1 DVD carries the film's original PG rating, but includes instances of violence and gore previously unseen in the U.S. and Canada. After Achilles' robot falls on the spectators, there are more shots of both Gary Graham's bloody face and of the dead bodies in the stands. A news broadcast immediately following now opens with a badly burned man screaming in pain for a couple of seconds. Also, when the traitorous person shoots scientist Matsumoto in the head, blood sprays on the wall behind the latter. In the old version (released theatrically by Epic and on tape and laserdisc by RCA/Columbia), that person pulls the trigger and it instead cuts to a recycled shot of an exploding robot on a video monitor; the bloodstained wall is never shown. The bits in question are included on the Japanese DVD, so apparently American and Canadian audiences are only now getting the cut of the movie that the rest of the world has seen for years. The MPAA database indicates that ROBOT JOX was originally rated PG-13, but trimmed to obtain PG. Evidently Epic felt that children were the movie's only audience, which makes one wonder why they didn't also edit out Anne-Marie Johnson's brief nude scene.

Conexiones
Edited into El último sobreviviente (1990)

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One of the Great Cheapies

While this movie in no way could be compared to the greats like Godfather or Star Wars, keep in mind that it had very little money. Stuart Gordon does a spectacular job of trying to maintain a big-budget realism with a very small budget. Not only does he do that, but he also makes a fairly entertaining film as well.

I saw this one a long time ago, and have since bought the tape. It really is a true guilty pleasure. While this is not as good as Stuart Gordon's other movies such as Re-Animator, it does beat out the awful Castle Freak. While many say that this is possibly the worst ever, they have obviously never seen a really bad film before.

The plot, which is actually fairly original, focuses on a "Robot Jock (Jox)" that is torn between retiring or continuing to fight for his country in a giant man made robot with specially made weapons to against the interesting, although cliched, Alexander. Add in genetically engineered fighters, and you have yourself one heck of a final fight royal.

The music score, done by some no name composer I have never heard of is actually quite good. I was very very impressed. The score really cought the mood of the action to me.

Overall, it's worth a rental, and if you like it, buy it on tape. I love it, but can see why others would call it average fair. But considering the budget and the company (It was made by the same guys who made Full Moon Studios) it scores pretty high on the zombie meter- 3 1/2 out of five