yep and you read that right and kid . michael bay should have study this film before make either of his over hype and overlong and overly pointless transformer movie . robot jox be good than both of them and it probably cost less than the transformer crew spend on megan fox personal trainer . thankfully and this little robotic gem and initially know mainly for be the film that bankrupt charles and albert band empire picture studio and seem to have develop a cult follow over the year . i fondly remember watch it on vhs during it initial video release in the early 90 and though some of the cold war era politics or stereotype be already out of date by that time ( just the band luck that communism would fall while the film be sit on a shelf wait to be release and eh . ) and it still a pretty damn cool little b movie . they really do not makeem like this anymore and or if they do and they go the bay route and cgi thing to unbearable proportion . for those who be unfamiliar and here the robo scoop represent be somewhere in the future and after a nuclear holocaust and large scale war have be outlaw . dispute between nation be now settle mano a mano ( or perhaps that should be machine o machine o ) by one representative from each side battle each other in giant size shogun warrior style robot . whichever bot walk away from the fight win for his side . gary graham ( who would later go on to play detective sykes in the alien nation tv series ) and play achilles and the great robot jock in marketplace ( a. k. a. the good guy ) history . achilles have be undefeated in his previous nine robot bout ( ten be the maximum number of battle before a jock be retire ) and at the beginning of the film he face off against his counterpart from the confederation ( i. e. the russkies . ) and the psychotic alexander ( who be the most over the top evil russian stereotype bad guy since dolph lundgren infamous turn a ivan drago in rocky iv ) . the match be call a draw when alexander violate the rule with an illegal robot move at the last minute and end up not only embarrass achilles and but kill a whole bunch of spectator in the bargain . a rematch be schedule to complete the bout and but achilles simply want to bow out and hang up his helmet and move on with his life . rather than violate the spoiler rule by reveal much more and i will simply say that there be a great deal of twist and turn and behind the scene skullduggery and and other difficulty for achilles and his fellow jox before the two robotic titan clash finally once again in the finale . i hope i be not make this movie out to be some sort of masterpiece of science fiction and because it isn not . robot jox be just plain fun . i will grant that it be a bit high concept than your average b grade sci fi movie and and though the budgetary constraint do occasionally make themselves know ( especially in the scene involve some painfully obvious green screen trickery ) and it be still the best look movie ever to come out of the empire or full moon picture factory . the robot fight scene be very well do use old school stop motion or model technique and and the set and costume do not look half assed in the slightest . empire picture and director stuart ( re animator ) gordon be definitely shoot for the star with this picture . unfortunately it do not quite pan out for them ( or the studio ) but at least we get one heckuva cool little movie out of the deal . bottom line represent if you want to be aurally and visually assault for 2 plus hour and feel free to rent a transformer movie . by the end youre likely to feel like you have spend all that time watch someone else play a video game . if you want to have a rockem and sockem robot good time and pick up robot jox instead .