It's also amusing to see the two villains from "The Karate Kid Part II", Kamekona and Yuji Okumoto, acting together. The cast selected is interesting: Paul (writer / director of "Half Past Dead") is a good looking but fairly bland hero, but Crampton of "Re-Animator" fame is spunky and sincere, and Peter Haskell ("Child's Play" 2 and 3) is a hoot as your standard issue greedy corporate creep. It's very much a good thing that it runs a trim 72 minutes long. While "Robot Wars" manages to be amusing to a minor degree, it's of no real distinction. Veteran film director Albert Band ("I Bury the Living") took the reigns of this one for his son, Full Moon head honcho Charles Band. Soon Drake's going to have his hands full battling a megalomaniac named Wa-Lee (Danny Kamekona). Drake meets crusading archaeologist Leda (Barbara Crampton), and although they get off on the wrong foot, it seems that romance will be in the air. In this setting, guys like Drake (Don Michael Paul) function as pilots of enormous robot spiders that both transport passengers and can be used as battle vehicles. The story has to do with rebels dubbed "Centros" who are a threat to survivors of some sort of apocalypse. Lightly entertaining but instantly forgettable follow-up to the earlier movie "Robot Jox". Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 5 / 10 Remember the Alamo!
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