The Dallas Police Department's research team is working on a robotic police officer for the future, code-named ROTOR or Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research (what a stupid name!). An incredibly lame lab accident involving a switchblade comb accelerates the ROTOR's production and it's released on the streets before it's ready. It's designed to not only stop lawbreakers, but to also carry out punishment. The sentence for a routine traffic violation - death!I watch a lot of bad movies and rate some of them far higher than I should. That's because I'm usually able to revel in their "badness" and have some fun with it. Not the case with ROTOR. It's just plain old bad. I could spend hours detailing all the problems I have with this movie, but as usual, I'll just list them. The special effects are dreadful, the dialogue is silly and nonsensical, the music is beyond annoying, the actors have zero charisma, the acting is painful to watch, the few attempts at comedy are cringeworthy, the ending is totally ridiculous, and the whole thing is a boring mess. The list is endless.
I suppose the thing that bothered me the most was how easy it was to defeat this supposed unstoppable killing machine. All you need is a car horn. Yes, that's right - a car horn renders the ROTOR helpless. I don't know why the characters in the movie go through so much trouble to defeat the robot when all they really needed to do was lay on a car horn and disable it. I referred to ROTOR as a killing machine - well, that's not entirely accurate. Once it's "activated", ROTOR spends most of the movie trying to track down one harmless, helpless woman without much success. I'm not sure how this thing was supposed to deal with real criminals.
1/10
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