Robotrix (1991) User Reviews

Russ Meyer Meets Robocop

[fertilecelluloid · 5/10 · 6 January 2006]

"Robotrix" is like a Russ Meyer movie with robots and futuristic hardware. It is not terribly well made and it is totally confusing, but it is never boring -- not the uncut version, anyway. There is a graphic rape scene that is scissored from some versions, so make sure you see the film in its glorious uncut state. Mammary-heavy Amy Yip is "Robotrix", a Robocop-like creation who is enlisted to hunt down a renegade robot that goes haywire. Despite Yip's reputation as a sex goddess, she was quite coy about her body in most HK movies (the great "Erotic Ghost Story" excepted). In this occasionally sleazy outing, the nudity honors go to the stunning Chikako Aoyama, a woman with a body to render non-stop chatterboxes speechless.

Definite beer and snacks movie!

[DVD_Connoisseur · 7/10 · 12 September 2006]

Not horror as such, but science fiction / action / adult comedy, this Category III film from Hong Kong is a definite beer and snacks movie. Although it may not be to everybody's taste, it's a fun movie for the most part (as is the case with many HK films, the humour can border on the tasteless).

The basic premise of the film is that a rather fetching and sexy lady agent has her mind transferred into the body of a robot following a shooting, thus becoming the ultimate sexy super-hero. Imagine "Robocop" meets "Charlie's Angels" with an adult touch and you've got the idea! The budget's not massive (and it shows) but it's worth watching if you're in the mood for something light after a more sober movie.

Action, Nudity, Sex and Martial Arts

[Uriah43 · 5/10 · 30 December 2015]

"Linda" (Chikako Aoyama) is a female police officer who has been assigned to guard the son of an extremely wealthy oil sheik. Lamentably, her mission becomes a complete failure as he is consequently kidnapped and Linda (aka "Selena") is critically wounded trying to protect him. Meanwhile, at a lavish convention sponsored by the oil sheik with the goal of awarding a large contract to the best robot manufacturer, an evil Japanese robotics genius by the name of "Ryuichi Sakamoto" (Chung Lin) televises a video declaring that he has kidnapped the sheik's son and demands the sheik's complete cooperation. He then demonstrates his genius by killing himself while simultaneously transferring his mind into the computerized brain of a nearby robot. Not only does this give him incredible power and intelligence but the robot also has a remarkable human appearance as well. Not to be outdone, another scientist at the convention named "Dr. Sara" (Siu-dan Hui) also has a powerful robot with human appearances by the name of "Anna" (Amy Yip) and vows to help the sheik defeat Ryuichi Sakamoto. Although she realizes that Sakamoto's robot has the edge due to his superior human intelligence, she also devises a plan to essentially compensate for it. To do this she will need a human brain of her own and Linda is the perfect candidate. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that I was surprised at the amount of action, nudity, sex and martial arts this film contained. Unfortunately, the script and the special effects were considerably bad and this really affected the overall entertainment value. Even so, there was some good humor here and there along with several sexy actresses featured including the aforementioned Chikako Aoyama, Siu-dan Hui and Amy Yip which certainly didn't hurt this film in any way. In any case, regardless of the cheap effects, I rate this movie as about average.

Fun Cat III Trash

[Rapeman13 · 9 March 2007]

Robotrix is a cheap and trashy Cat III outing which mixes sci-fi, action & comedy elements along with the usual sleaze and gore of the HK Category III film.

Taking obvious cues from Robocop and The Terminator, the futuristic story opens with female cop, Selina (busty AV idol & Edo Rapeman star, Chikako Aoyama) getting killed during the kidnapping of an Arabian prince she is protecting. We soon discover that the prince was kidnapped by fiendish scientist & robot designer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, who subsequently commits Hara-kiri and transplants his evil mind into his latest robot creation, played by Billy Chow (Horrible High Heels, Escape from the Brothel).

The psycho cyborg then proceeds to go on a hooker-killing rampage punctuated by a few sleazy rapes. Luckily, Japanese scientist Dr. Sara and her robot assistant Anne (big-titted Cat III cutie, Amy Yip) are standing by to donate their services, and they do so by transferring dead cop Selina's mind into a clone of her old body, then together they prepare to hunt down the evil whore-slaughtering robot and save the prince.

This flick is a whole lotta fun. There's enough sex, violence, robot-rape and low brow comedy relief courtesy of the goofball cops to keep the avid sleazehound entertained. Some classic scenes involve Amy Yip going undercover in a brothel to try and lure the crazed cyborg in, but ends in half the police force lining up to bang her! There's also limb tearing, ultra cheesy special effects and some violent-robot-wielding-a-flamethrower action. A guaranteed good time for one and all! 7/10

Category III Cinema: Robotrix

[Captain_Couth · 7/10 · 27 August 2005]

Robotrix (1991) is another starring vehicle for Amy Yip. This Japanese-Hong Kong co-production takes place in the distant future where cyborgs, androids and sex robots are common place. It's kind of hard to explain this movie. Well, it is part of the Category III genre so you'll know what to expect if you have seen these type of films before. They're filled with plenty if nudity and violence. A lot of skin and buckets of gore. Now that you know what to expect what are you waiting for? Go out and grab a copy (if you can find one) today. i have only seen a dubbed copy of this film and I wasn't that impressed. But you can't go wrong with the well endowed Amy Yip who's quite the actress. Good cheesy adult fun.

Recommended.

Groovy

[As_Cold_As_Ice · 7/10 · 30 July 2007]

This Cat III sure was a humdinger. I mean, this movie literally has everything; kung fu, nudity, robot rape, romance, awesome special effects, gore, cop tomfoolery, the lot.

What happens is that a robot designer kidnaps a rich sheik's son, wanting a juicy robot contract in return. As a show of his technology, he also implants his mind in a lifelike robot's body, making him near invincible, and super powerful. However, a scientist for Japan also has the technology, and with the help of her robots and the police, she must stop the designer before he kills the son.

This film is extremely difficult to categorize, mainly due to the different parts of the film being.... different. At some parts, action is fast and flowing, with guns blazing and broken ribs being the order of the day. At other times, there are longish sex scenes, and at other times, there are more science fiction elements. However, it all combines well into one complete movie. And having two very nice girls to look at helps too.

Overall, I very much liked this, and recommend a watch to everyone.

7/10

Campy Hong Kong action Sci-Fi...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 24 December 2015]

'Built by science... fueled by revenge' was the catchphrase on the DVD cover right along with 'Robocop meets Red Shoe Diaries'. Yeah, I know! Right? This movie is a very campy and not very serious action Sci-Fi movie from 1991 coming out of the Hong Kong cinema and allegedly it is one of the infamous exploitation movies that paved the way for other similar movies in Hong Kong.

The story in "Robotrix" (aka "Nu ji xie ren") is about a police woman who was gunned down on assignment and then brought back to life by restoring her conscious mind in an android body. She has to stop a mad scientist who is also existing in an android body.

The acting in "Robotrix" was as to be expected from a movie such as this.

It is difficult to take this movie seriously, given the storyline and the questionable effects.

Not really a very memorable experience in the Hong Kong cinema.

Quite hilarious

[Vomitron_G · 7/10 · 18 January 2013]

I finally sat myself down to see 'Robotrix' in its entirety. Having previously skipped a few chapters already to see what it looked like, I knew what I was in for. And the time was ripe now, since I felt in the mood for it. 'Robotrix' is a pretty damn hilarious kungfu-cyborg cheese-fest with lots of nudity, rapes (robots apparently do love to rape, and the female victims don't even seem to mind it that much), over the top violence & bloodshed and incredible idiotic attempts at humor. All this in a plot that doesn't seem to make the slightest bit of sense and is unaware of the fact that a conclusion of some sort always helps to wrap things up. Pretty insane flick, crappy special effects included. I liked it. But let me remind you that it's a bad movie: 3/10... Oh wait,... I just checked its page on here. It's supposed to be a comedy??? That changes things: 7/10! Haha.

beautiful asian women but its stops there

[kaefab · 3/10 · 9 May 2022]

My god this movie was terrible i cannot believe for one second it got released in theaters.

Yes beautiful asian women lots of nudity but the story is atrocious at best. I lasted around 40 minutes before i turned it off, even for a late 80 movie it was terrible.

Super-Cheezy, Super-Fun CATIII Cyborg-Chicks Film...

[EVOL666 · 7/10 · 1 January 2008]

Gotta say, I got a real big kick outta ROBOTRIX. I'm a pretty big CATIII fan in general, and it's kinda surprising that I just got around to this one. I've had it in the "to watch" pile for probably about a year now, but just haven't had a chance to really mess with it. I'm glad I finally got around to it though, cuz although it definitely isn't one of the "best of the best" of the genre, it IS one of the more fun entries, and is definitely up there as far as CATIII "must-sees" are concerned.The plot for this one is pretty convoluted and hard to explain - but who cares, it's about cyborg chicks, right???

Female police officer Lin is gunned down in the line of duty during an oil sheik's son's kidnapping. Just so happens that there are some pretty new advances in cyborg technology in this "futuristic" world (where the 1991 time-stamp of the film really looks like 1983...), and it is now possible to transfer human thoughts into identical cyborg bodies (but ONLY after the human dies - for some unknown reason). This procedure is done to officer Lin because the freako that kidnapped the oil sheik's son is also a cyborg-maker and has just transferred his thoughts into his own cyborg in order to make himself an unstoppable killing/raping machine so that the oil sheik will comply with his wishes to fund a cyborg "legion". With me so far??? Didn't think so. Anyway - with the help of the local police, Dr. Sara (the cyborg expert who transferred Lin's body into her cyborg "twin"), and Anna (Dr. Sara's smokin' hot cyborg assistant) - Lin and company take off after the rogue cyborg in hopes of stopping his reign of murdery/rapey terror...

Yeah - hard to sum this one up in a few lines. Honestly, I think it would be hard to sum this one up in a small novel. The plot is all over the place and really doesn't make a whole lotta sense when you sit and think about it - but who the hell cares??? We have super-hot cyborg chicks, a rape and violence obsessed nemesis, and enough cheezy/sleazy situations to keep this one fun all the way through. My only real gripe is that Anna (played by Amy Yip) obviously has the hottest rack of the bunch and does not show them off once! This is pretty much unforgivable in my book (especially in a film where the nudity is pretty plentiful...) and drops the overall score at least a 1/2 point in my book. Some truly choice scenes in ROBOTRIX though - including a hooker-rape-to-window-disposal, a few decent gore scenes including a few beheadings and some other fun stuff, and a decent amount of soft-core (though somewhat non-exceptional) sex and nudity. Definitely recommended for all CATIII and B-movie fans - others will find it too goofy to handle...7.5/10

Packed with the worst elements of the best in exploitation

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 12 May 2021]

Have you ever wished that a bunch of Category 3 Hong Kong maniacs would make their own Terminator mixed with RoboCop movie and fill it with gore, sleaze and utter craziness? Good news! That movie is Robotrix!

Under the name Chien-Ming Lu, this film's director Jamie Luk appeared in Lady Exterminator, Crippled Avengers and many more films. This is the first movie of his I've seen but definitely not the last as it's packed with sheer maniacal ridiculousness.

Cast member Vincent Lyn told Richard Myers - in the book Great Martial Arts Movies: From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan - and More - "Now that was one wild shoot. The cast and crew were all over the place and you were lucky to find out what you were doing before the cameras rolled. I spent more time laughing on the set than anything else."

This is the kind of movie that features full-frontal male and female nudity, as well as numerous murder scenes with beheadings and a wire work martial arts battle between cyborgs.

Oh man, so what is it about anyways?

A mad scientist named Ryuichi Sakamoto (Chung Lin transfers his mind into a robot (former WKA champion Billy Chow, who did not show his dong in Fist of Legend), which frees him to do pretty much everything he's always wanted to, like kidnapping an Arabic businessman and killing his bodyguard, Selena Lin (Chikako Aoyama).

A non-mad scientist named Dr. Sara (Hui Hsiao-dan) transfers Selena's mind from her dead body into a cyborg named Eve-27. She rejoins the police force, bringing along the doctor's robotic assistant Ann (Amy Yip). They're soon on the trail of Sakamoto, who is leaving behind dead prostitutes pretty much everywhere he goes.

Sadly, I was hoping that Amy Yip and Chikako Aoyama would end up punishing the villain for the way he has treated women the entire movie, but nope. The Shiek ends up taking care of him. Other than that, this movie is filled with a disregard for human life - a scene where the evil cyborg repeatedly runs over the chubby comedic relief and then the cops shoot him hundreds of times before he laughs and runs over their friend's dead body is my favorite part - and the cinematic equivalent of eating ten bags of Takis. Or Fritos. Or Doritos. You know what I'm saying!

Very good if campy movie

[pefo1921 · 8/10 · 27 July 1999]

This is a very good movie to take a chance on. For the most part, it's done well on a low budget. It has much nudity and sometimes is tasteless in it's humor. Amy Yip and Chikako Aoyama are very good. The copy I saw didn't have subtitles, but if you understand a little Cantonese, there's enough English to understand what's going on. Robots, killers, sex, gore. You can't ask much more from a movie!!! Overall, 8 out of 10.

Rather average given its reputation

[Leofwine_draca · 6/10 · 14 December 2020]

This well-known cult Category III movie from Hong Kong is notable for being an obvious TERMINATOR rip-off and not much else. It has a little comic book vibe going for it but it's also very low budget and feels padded half the time, with routine sex scenes and Lucky Stars-style comedy shenanigans getting in the way in the first half. It's a pity, as there's fun in the goofy premise of Billy Chow playing a robotic assassin and watching him go up against the female robots pitted against him. The other cast members fare less well, although Amy Yip makes her usual impression as does imported Japanese starlet Chikako Aoyama. The film is notable for two lengthy and gratuitous rape scenes which go way beyond the boundaries of taste, while there's a lot of nudity too and some gore scattered throughout. The last half hour dollops on the action and gets better, but as a whole the production is only an average one.

No, this is just a really-really bad film

[cauwboy · 3/10 · 14 June 2020]

I can't believe how so many reviews on this site has given this film such a high rating, they're forgiving and calling it both trashy and fun. It's really neither, it's just really-really bad. I'll admit that I didn't really read anything about this film before I started to watch it, just that it was a Hong Kong film and it was categorized as an Action-Comedy, having the classic Golden Harvest logo showing up at the beginning put me to ease, but then as the film started and moved on, things just got worse and worse.

As soon as the film started I cringed a bit by both the acting as well as the set and thought to myself "Wow, this looks like a porno..." and I didn't have to wait for too long when suddenly it cut to a sex scene, very awkward and made me just uncomfortable. I don't really watch any sex scenes normally, but something about those scenes in this film just looked like the actors performed "air-sex" humping in the air while the other actor did his/her best to act to it.

I'm not sure I should try and explain the plot since it's just really bad. Mad scientist transfer his body to a robot that looks like a muscular human and kidnaps the son to a millionaire and kills our main protagonist, who luckily gets her mind transferred to a robot too that the creators somehow made looking exactly like her former self. After that it's just lots of really boring jokes, dumb acting and bad fight scenes, you can tell from the editing that there actors weren't skilled martial art fighters.

You can tell that the filmmakers has taken some inspiration from Robocop and Terminator, but then completely skipped what made those film great. I know this is a silly softcore comedy, but even Stephen Chow did a better job in his Sixty Million Dollar Man, which I would still call one of his weaker films. For characters being robots, they sure showed lots of emotions and expressions when they got hit during fights, not to mention the whole sex-part, how does that even work when you're a robot? Does it even work that way? I have no idea and it only makes it more mad that I think too much about this film.

I've still given this film 3 out of 10 which might seem kind of me, it's a really bad film, but it's also just over 90 minutes long and had some lazy fight scenes. There are better "Bad films" out there to find, this is not one of them.

Over The Top Category 3 Film

[crossbow0106 · 19 July 2009]

A prince from the middle east is kidnapped by a mad Japanese scientist. He manages to kill Selina, who was the prince's bodyguard. Utilizing the latest in cyborg technology, Dr. Sara (Hui Hiu Dan) transfers Selina's mind and body to a robot. Dr. Sara's assistant is Ann, played by the sexy Amy Yip, and they all try to stop this scientist and save the prince. This movie is a category 3 film, and its full of violence and nudity, especially Selina, played by the also sexy Chikako Aoyama. That this works at all is a minor miracle, but it manages to be a crude but watchable action film. Crazy things happen, but the film is not meant to be taken seriously. If you don't mind gratuitous violence and nudity, it passes the time pretty well.

Female Roberoticop

[kosmasp · 7/10 · 16 June 2022]

Or as others have said: Robocop mixed with Andy Sidaris. And while it has been a while since I last saw a Sidaris movie, if you have seen at least one of them you can guess where this is going. Now apart from nudity (mostly female, though there is one full frontal shot of a male one) and the Science Fiction part, there is the action part. And as over the top as the nudity and the story itself is, the action tries to top that too.

No holds barred - there is a lot of violence. Almost comical at times (and referencing the Flying Guillotine from the Shaw Brothers and other crazy movies) - but it does work. Really good to say the least. There is also Martial Arts - the movie is mostly fun and games then (with violent deaths and sex added for good measure).

Unfortunately at times it does get darker - and it may have cost it a bit of a higher rating by me. There are forced sexual encounters - that really were not necessary in my view, but I reckon they wanted to up the ante. Shame for being so dark and not being able to walk the fine line from start to finish - no pun intended.

Not a great movie per se, but ...

[srbrown-1 · 10/10 · 22 May 2003]

This film, which goes by the English title "Robotrix" and is available dubbed, is a Hong Kong version of Russ Meyer meets James Cameron. It's ultraviolent, with three hot actresses. The movie is sporadically entertaining and at times disgusting. I give it a 10 only because of the presence of Chikako Aoyama, who topless is a wonder to behold. Amy Yip is also beautiful, skinny and pneumatic. Otherwise I'd give it a 6. One extra point each.

Gratuitous doesn't even begin to cover it

[Opus303 · 8 February 2002]

If you gave a room full of college-aged males a small budget and a film-camera, this movie is likely what they'd come up with. It has everything the hormone-addled male brain would ever need - naked female kung-fu robots.

The amount of gratuitous (ie. not integral to the story) T and A in this movie is simply spectacular, not that there's anything wrong with that. And the fact that the A's and T's being exposed just happen to belong to two of the most popular Hong Kong Category III actresses just adds to the attraction.

If Mystery Science Theatre 3000 were on HBO, this would be the movie they'd pick for the premiere episode.

Highly reccomended, provided of course the wife, kids and neighbors are safely out of the room.

Billy Chow's Sausage

[DavyDissonance · 9/10 · 29 April 2020]

An evil scientist transfers his consciousness into a robot and kidnaps a prince for some reason and goes on a killing and r@pe spree just for the f··· of it. I don't like erotic crap but Robotrix is an absolute classic. It has some great robot action sequences, bloody violence and the cyberpunk elements are actually really good. Now, I don't like sex in movies because they hinder pacing but luckily there are only a few and they're not prolonging. Besides, two of the sex scenes were r@pe scenes and, rather being disturbing, they were actually kinda funny. One when the robot screws a woman to death and throws her out the window and the other when at the end of the r@pe we get to see Billy Chow's maniacal laughter as his little noodle is sticking out. Why I was compelled to mention this, I don't know. You'll also be greeted with plentiful nudity and it's good watchable clean happy nudity with some nice taters, frontal female (and male, ugh) nudity and firm female ass. And a hairy ass as well. Yay. One downfall is the (intentional) comedy and everyone with an IQ above 60 knows Hong Kong humor is irritating and often times unnecessary but whatever. Robotrix is paced well and it's campy entertainment value is enormous.

Of course.

[alistairrolls · 2 February 2002]

Robotrix.

This is the finest artefact that mankind possess. No language contains the words to describe this CAT-3 sci-fi HK show. I love every single film ever produced (-hate).

I love this show, its like watching Panasonic's wet dream in 1983. 1991? This show has aged like a fine wine.

I'm out.

Peace and love to all people.

A.