Review of Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter (2017) by Rocenha — 06 Jan 2018

The best advice I can give is to go in to watching this one with no expectations. It fits a lot into a single film, requires a few times revisiting to catch all the small things they fit in there.

The first time through you may be going "Wait, What?!" but on subsequent viewings a lot of the small things they fit in make sense. Really I would have rather seen this set as a multi part TV special as there's a lot of room to expand. Fortunately I've seen on the web that may be happening. I was lucky enough to go catch this at one of the showings in Los Angeles and went to buy a copy for myself afterwards. The Q&A there had a lot of information that makes some of the other reviews on her laughable. For instance they really did their own stunts in this. Skullcrusher, Sienna, Blister? They ran all over and fell and joked about all their injuries from doing so. The fact they spoke of how hot those days were added a lot of respect to those scenes in a wasteland. If they're sweating and grimacing that's real. Give me lens flares then, the struggle the Actors are going through is the real focus in this film. Sweeping character arcs are crammed in to the point if you only watch it once you may miss some of the events. There's a lot of them.

This reminds me of the good old Sci-Fi days when you didn't bicker over special effects but the story and it had to be more than just techno-babble. There's action, there's drama, there are a lot of questions still needing to be answered. But in a way that leaves you curious. Give it a few watches, you'll need it.