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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Robot Jox, it turns future conflict into a scrappy televised-style sporting spectacle, with an underdog human fighter, eccentric alien opponents, and gleefully tactile low-budget sci-fi worldbuilding.
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Why this pick
This shares Robot Jox’s unapologetic 1980s future, dystopian stakes, colorful production design, and sincere young heroes resisting a militarized regime.
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Why this pick
A post-collapse corporate state and a forbidden robot create the same kind of compact, rough-edged dystopian pulp: functional practical designs, escalating danger, and direct genre momentum.
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Why this pick
Stuart Gordon again combines working-class future grime, oversized mechanical menace, and knowingly pulpy action. It is looser and more comic than Robot Jox, but has a closely related handmade sensibility.
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01 / THE STORY
Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations - the western-influenced Market and the Russian-influenced Confederation - have agreed to outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disputes are settled with gladiator-style matches between Mecha operated by pilots called "robot jockey" who are contracted to fight ten matches. The Confederation champion is Alexander (Paul Koslo), who has killed his last nine opponents thanks in part to a spy in the Market leaking information to the Confederation. The Market's champion, Achilles (Gary Graham) has won nine fights and will fight his final match against Alexander for the territory of Alaska. Achilles is supported by robot designer "Doc" Matsumoto (Danny Kamekona) and strategist Tex Conway (Michael Alldredge), the only jox to win all ten of his contract fights.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alexander
Tex Conway
Sportcaster
Young Guard
Kate
Athena
Achilles
Commisioner Jameson
