Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot. He is sent on a very dangerous mission into the depths of the golden Triangle to rescue Sophie, a beautiful undercover agent who has been captured by the evil drug warlord Mr. Young and his inhuman creation the Vampire Beast.
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Best movie ever!
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Convincing a friend to watch ROBO VAMPIRE is an exercise in trust. It's near impossible to explain in any great detail what's so fun about it. It's something that has to be experienced first-hand. I had zero knowledge of what to expect when I first sat down to watch this beauty. It was one of 50 public domain Z-grade movies in a cheap collection I grabbed for $10. Then an Internet search brought me to the cover art of Robocop clutching what I assumed to be the titular vampire in the foreground while the world exploded behind them. I was sold, if cautious. What I proceeded to watch was beyond words. I was often so wracked with laughter that I was forced to pause the movie so I wouldn't miss a minute of it. It's hard to put the plot of ROBO VAMPIRE into words with any sort of confidence but I'll try my best to give you an idea. It's about heroin smuggling in Asia. There's a drug kingpin who's grown tired of a particular "anti-drug agent" (I'll assume he means DEA) named Tom, and he's hired a Taoist to train vampires to handle it. Tom dies in a bust gone wrong and, before his corpse has time to cool, he's turned into a robot cop. A sort of Robo-Tom. Meanwhile, in another potentially unrelated storyline, another "anti-drug agent" named Sophie is taken hostage by what may or may not be the same drug operation and a special team is sent to bring her home.When the movie was finally over and I had endured the hurricane of pure insanity that was ROBO VAMPIRE, I found some info that gave some context to what I had just watched. There's a very distinct feeling that you're watching two entirely separate movies play out through ROBO VAMPIRE and that's because you essentially are. It was a product of Filmark International Ltd and producer Tomas Tang, who would shot a bunch of random martial arts footage and insert it into half-finished movies to create a cinematic Frankenstein. Once you're aware of that, it's impossible not to notice. It didn't click with me the first time I watched it but now I can't help but notice the whole Robo-Tom plot thread never once crosses over with the Sophie rescue thread. Not a single character crosses the border between stories. ROBO VAMPIRE is about 65% rescue and 35% robot versus vampires. This is all wrong. It needs to be 75% robot/vampires. Maybe more. The rescue operation has its moments. There's a great stunt dive when Sophie does a running jump through a window and we see a stocky, hair man in a bad wig and nightgown nail the landing. There's plenty of bloodless gunfights and martial arts battles with stuntmen throwing themselves around. The dubbing is generic action movie dialogue and characters are interchangeable because no one is anything more than one-dimensional. It serves its purpose but the real gold is to be found in the rare occasions when we rejoin Robo-Tom and the vampires.Where to start?! Well not that anyone will be surprised but Robo-Tom looks nothing like Robocop. He's a no-budget rip-off, covered in silver-painted safety padding with goggles and a helmet. The vampires wear some sort of traditional Chinese dress and are at least given a little makeup to give the impression of decay on their faces. And they hop! These vampires can only movie via hopping, jumping, leaping, or straight up teleporting. Their attacks include corrosive smoke and bottle rockets fired from their sleeves. In addition to the hordes of regular vampires, there's one super vampire of which the Taoist is super proud. You can tell he's more powerful than the rest because the character has a gorilla's face (i.e. a gorilla Halloween mask). The super vampire is also in love with a ghost woman who is mad because she was hoping to live eternally in the afterlife with her beloved only to watch him become a vampire slave. The Taoist agrees to marry the two together as long as they are under his command. Meanwhile, Robo-Tom proves to be effective against vampires but still can't handle a direct bazooka blast. That's totally fine though because, even when he's melted to a puddle of liquid aluminum foil, all he needs is a little soldering a maybe a new battery before he's back on the beat. ROBO VAMPIRE is totally bonkers and, even when there's no robot or vampires on screen, never let's you get bored. The best news of all? There's two "sequels" out there from Tomas Tang that I haven't seen yet.Bucket list updated.
If robo vampire doesn't make you laugh till you cry then you have no sense of humor. Everything about it is so bad, it begs for you to watch again to catch even more plot holes, or at least a couple more laughs.The movie claims to be about some drug agent who gets killed and is then reborn as a vampire-fighting robo warrior. But really the movie revolves around a plot about a kidnapped(and somehow beautiful) female agent named Sophie, with a robotic story planted on. Everything is purely cheese in this movie. Robo-Warriors' costume looks like something you'd see in an elementary school play. He fights vampires that do everything but suck blood( they hop, they appear out of the ground, they shoot fireballs out of their arms). A third subplot about a half-naked ghost chick is completely confusing and terrible. The best part is when the blonde haired female drug agent Sophie jumps out of a window from enemies, and her stunt double is clearly a gray haired man in a dress(!).On top of all of this you have to remember that the only reason that there are vampires in this movie is because the drug dealers hired them!I don't care what anyone says, movies this bad should be cherished, and MUST be seen to be believed.
Words can't put the sheer incompetence of this film into perspective. You can read the other posts for specifics, but trust me: this one hurts. I highly recommend dropping $2-3 to buy this on ebay. It will make for a very enjoyable evening of bad cinema.
I've seen a lot of bad movies in my day, and i'm pretty sure this takes the cake... wow, where to start on this movie. first, shame on many of you for voting 10 on this movie, it may be fun to watch because its so bad, but i think it belongs as #1 on the bottom 100 spot, it deserves nothing more than a 1 on the list. I'm pretty tired of movies that truly belong on the bottom of the list not getting there because they were not on MST3K. At first before i watched this movie, i stuck to my story that the worst movie that i had seen so far was the Nail gun massacre (and yes, that movie is quite bad) , and i'm going to have to say this blew that movie away. First as we see on the cover a picture that is clearly robocop (i'm not sure how magnum video got away with this blatant copy write infringement) putting a vampire in a headlock, so i put this garbage into the vcr, and now im here writing a review for the movie. The problem being, i don't know what to say, the movie had absolutely no plot, and people throw that phrase around a lot, but this movie doesn't, no plot at all.(i guess this contains spoilers, oh well i guess im spoiling what little of a plot the worst movie ever has)(back of the box) "Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android robot. He is sent on a very dangerous mission into the depths of the Golden triangle to rescue Sophie, a beautiful undercover agent who has been captured by the evil drug warlord Mr.. young and his inhuman creation the vampire beast. In a climactic battle, tom must use all of his robotic powers to defeat the savage drug lord and his monstrous blood sucking creation"YES, THE COMPANY THAT MADE THE MOVIE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THE PLOT.1. tom wilde isn't shot to death, he is killed by a vampire2. sophie and tom, (robo warrior) are never on the screen at the same time, EVER. which ill also back up some of the reviewers when they say that this movie is two movies spliced together, its just two different things going on at the same time that never meet except for about 10 minutes.other than this, i cant really go through the non-existent plot, can i? here are a few nice tidbits from the movie though1. The lead vampire wears a Halloween store grade monkey mask and CLEARLY shoots bottle rockets out of his hands2. some scenes have up to 5-10 bad edits, especially fight scenes. and look as if they were done with 2 vcr's3. robo warriors suit looks like tin foil, he in no way looks like robocop4. the evil drug dealers use chinese water torture on the anti drug agents but LET'S THEM MOVE THEIR HEADS FREELY WHILE WATER DRIPS ON THEM.5. a woman pokes out a man's eyes with the three stooges two finger eye poke6. the fight between robo warrior and the vampires for no reason what so ever moves from the jungle (where more than 99% of the movie is based) to some some city in a fraction of a second.and many more, i beg...i plead with you to give this movie a 1 and a 1 only. lets put this movie where it belongs! at the bottom of the list!!!