The War of the Robots

1978 "Hostile Alien Cyborgs in a Battle for the Universe"
2.7| 1h39m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 26 April 1978 Released
Producted By: Nais Film
Country: Italy
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.

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Director

Alfonso Brescia

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Nais Film

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
kai ringler This wasn't as bad as most make it out to be,, if it was that bad I would have rated it a 1 or a 2. that being said , this wasn't particularly good either no mistake about that,, a pair of astronauts are kidnapped by alien forces who end up being robots. base camp sends out some soldiers to rescue them, and they end up fighting a strange race of people on a strange planet who later make friends with them and join in the help to save their friends,, so the two that were kidnapped end up having their own agenda and are really traitors against the earthlings,,, weird movie I must say,, but kind of fun also in a weird way.
Red-Barracuda The potential for something very entertaining here is unmistakable. War of the Robots is a clear Italian rip-off of Star Wars. And it does amuse me to think of the people who unwittingly must have pitched up in cinemas in the 70's to see this on the back of that massive blockbuster. I'm not too sure if they would have been very impressed to be perfectly honest.The robots of the title are a group of hilariously silver suited androids that sport haircuts similar to Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones circa 1968. The Brian Joneses are the villains and they appear throughout the movie in laser gun battles and light-sabre fights. They are the best thing about War of the Robots. Because overall, this is an overlong yawn-fest, with way too little going on to excuse it's running time. As camp entertainment it's OK but there simply isn't enough decent quality cheese to make up for the tedium.Watch it for the Brian Joneses and then turn it off.
JoeB131 You know, it's like a Spaghetti Western, but with ray-guns.This film was made in 1978, after Luigi and Mario figured out there was some money to be made in this Science Fiction stuff. so what you have is a ripoff of Star Wars with no budget for special effects or sets or actors. But they did have a bunch of people running around in really tight spandex. And some gal with a butch haircut who wonders why the captain doesn't notice her. Well, because you have your hair cut like a boy, you silly thing! They even had their android soldiers wield something that looked vaguely like lightsabers.I still think we should confiscate Italy's entire supply of blank film, just as a precaution.
BloodTheTelepathicDog Wow! this is an awful movie. Made in the days when science fiction films were the worst film genre in the business, War of the Robots is an utter waste of time and the producer's nugget. In this story we have Antonio Sabato leading a crew of space people in an effort to rescue a professor and his knockout assistant - who Sabato lusts for - from the evil clutches of cinema's most laughable robots. If men in their thirties and forties sporting Buster Brown haircuts and silver jumpsuits is your idea of a menacing brigade of androids, then this flick is for you. Filmed in Italy, it was shipped to Hollywood and all th European actors had their names Americanized: such as Melissa Long and Lillian Lacy to cash in on the sci-fi hysteria.VIOLENCE: $ (The worst sci-fi shootouts are presented in this film, but keep in mind, they aren't shootouts in the usual sense. The laser guns simply flash light - they do not shoot laser beams or anything other projectile for that matter. The robots, who kill only one crew member, all die with a single flashing from Sabato's light gun. We also have "light sabers" that are basically plastic swords that illuminate. Watching Antonio slap the Buster Brown bots with this toy sword - and then laughing at the method at which the robots die - makes for unintentional hilarity).NUDITY: None. The makers knew they had to sex up the picture a bit so they chose to give random closeups to Lillian Lacy and her sizable bust. Her character, who has more screen time than the Commander, is never given a name but simply referred to as the Commander's assistant in the credits).STORY: $ (Absolutely inane! The professor and his assistant change allegiances as often as Pamela Anderson does husbands. In a future society, with everything run on or by machines, I find it quite ridiculous that the professor is the only man in the universe who can fix a reactor that presents impending doom to civilization).ACTING: $ (Antonio Sabato looks like he'd rather be doing anything other than taking part in this film but he grins when the script calls for it and issues the insipid lines of dialogue when asked).