robot jox try hard and but be fundamentally a series of fight scene string together robot against robot and man against man and man against woman . the premise have potential and but it seem the script wasn not really give the couple of more draft it need . still and it be fairly good and for a science fiction action movie . part of it be because the script be by joe haldeman . for those who aren not familiar with the name and haldeman write the award win science fiction novel the forever war . it consider one of the very best powered battle armor novel and right up there with robert heinlein starship trooper and john steakley armor . and this movie be really more like a giant powered battle armor movie and rather than giant robot . it close to what fan would have want instead of the travesty that be paul verhoeven starship trooper and which bore only a passing resemblance to the novel it be base on . despite some assumption and this really isn not base on homer iliad . a couple of name be all they have in common . achilles have his robot foot blow off have no parallel in the iliad and which do not include achilles death . nor be the ancient achilles a noble warrior . he be the mighty and but also vengeful and petty . even the robot jock kill off in the first scene doesn not fit . he be name hercules and while the greek iliad would have have herakles . the effect be fairly good for the time and the budget . true and it wasn not comparable to terminator 2 a year later and but that movie cost ten time as much . the stop motion be almost as good a the robotic walker in the empire strike back and return of the jedi . good and in fact and than a lot of ray harryhausen animation and which be highly regarded and but quite dated . don not bring high expectation into this and you probably would not be disappoint . it good than a lot of other low budget flick and even some big budget blockbuster wannabes that have good effect but far bad script .