ThiefHott Too much of everything

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

classicsoncall I never thought it could happen. Within a mere week, my established list of all time Top Ten worst films ever has been completely upended by two incredibly awful flicks that showed up on Turner Classics over the past seven days. No need to wonder, the other one was "Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell", and they now occupy the top two spots on my list, which you can check out here - http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000294129/ After reading some of the other comments on the picture, it's my understanding that there are a couple other Aztec Mummy flicks out there which I'll be wary of, as I don't want to inundate my bad movie list with a single concept.Quite honestly, I couldn't follow a lot of the dialog or narrative in the picture, but I think that might have been a blessing. If one needs a run down on what happened, go on over to the review on this board by 'evilskip' and you'll get the idea. For my part, I was consistently stunned by such nonsense as an Aztec breastplate with hieroglyphics, a maniacally weird character named Dr. Krupp, and some guy thrown into a pit full of rattlers, which by the way, didn't contain any rattlesnakes if you took a close look. But who would take a close look at anything going on in this picture?I know I can be a glutton for punishment when it comes to this movie watching hobby of mine, and every once in a while you come across one that really rattles the foundations. My summary line is an actual quote from one of the characters in the picture, so don't think it's me putting you on. If I can suffer through this, you can too.

unbrokenmetal A treasure is guarded by a mummy, an Aztec warrior who came back to life centuries after his death. The mad scientist Dr Krupp builds a robot to fight the mummy and get the treasure. „There you have the greatest creation of man's intelligence, a human robot, doctor! If it lives, my triumph will be complete (...) No human being on this earth can oppose me", Krupp states a little too optimistic.Two thirds of the running time are mainly consisting of flashbacks to the previous two movies, 'The Aztec Mummy' and 'Curse of the Aztec Mummy'. Only the last third tells us the new part of the story, that is not very much and clearly deserves the low rating here. The budget must have been a tenner for the silver robot paint. Any possible cliché is included, especially the villain loves to explain his cunning plan for world domination to everyone around instead of getting on with his business. Still 'The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy' was OK to watch for me, because I didn't know the predecessors, so it worked as an introduction to the series. You have to consider in those days they had no home video yet, so the inclusion of previously seen material was less annoying than it is for today's audiences.

masercot This movie delivered.With a title like Aztec Mummy v. the Robot, you expect drama, action, Aztec mummies and robots; and, by God, this movie deliver two out of four of those. The acting was kind of odd, as if the plot of the dubbed movie was different than that of the original. The hero resembled Marvel Comics' Dr. Strange uncannily. The other male lead looked like a nauseous version of Buddy Holly.Why was the mummy driven away by a cross? Why are scientists, in Mexico, allowed to pillage antiquities at will? What is a doctor of medicine doing practicing archeology and how can he read ancient hieroglyphics? Wasn't it convenient that the doctor knew a soil analyst? Why is the reincarnated princess wearing bags on her feet? And, why was the rattlesnake pit full of boa constrictors?This movie was bad, but very enjoyable. And, short. Mostly presented in flashback form. If it had starred a professional wrestler, this movie could've been a classic.

funkyfry 2/3 of this movie is recycled footage of the previous movies, a fact that's sadly obvious even to someone like myself who hasn't seen the original movies. And somehow it feels like a rip-off even though I haven't seen the stuff before. It's like that episode of every TV show where the characters sit around a photo album or something and you just see recycled footage of other episodes. I've seen some producers do extended montages of recycled footage, but never anything beyond 5 minutes or so. This movie is mostly stuff that had already been seen by audiences, so you could mount a case that it's one of the biggest rip-offs ever foisted on the motion picture public.I got to see it in the theater, in a 16mm print, which is good enough I suppose considering how rare this kind of material must be on film these days. I give the movie some credit for semi-convincing Gothic atmosphere and for unintentional humor, but that's about it. The Aztec mummy monster looks good, even has some mobility in his face which is better than most movie monsters of the period. But the robot is pitiful, although it's interesting that they made the human face totally visible. It's a "robot human" or something of the sort as they somewhat explain in the movie. I think that's considered an android. So technically in hard sci-fi terms this movie should be called "Android vs. the Aztec Mummy", but I doubt anyone was too worried about technicalities here anymore than they were worried about quality. In fact the movie is so sloppily put together that it makes television look good. Even the dubbing from Mexican into English is lazy and weak -- for example at one point the hero says "I might as well begin at the beginning...." what the heck kind of translation is that? Couldn't they at least have him say "start at the beginning" so that it doesn't sound repetitive? A high school newspaper editor could have fixed the screenplay of this movie. It's the epitome of utilitarian film-making, just absolutely nothing is in this movie that doesn't need to be there for the basic commercial purpose of the film. They put no more effort into making it than they had to, and considering the extensive recycled footage I would doubt that they actually spent more than a week making this movie.I will now cease posting about it on the principle that I don't want to expend more energy in the process of commenting than the creators of the movie actually expended while making it.