The basic plot revolves around a Sheik's son who is kidnapped by an evil scientist, Ryuichi Yamamoto. Yamamoto was able to do this by committing hari-kari while hooked up to a memory transfer machine, planting his mind into an unstoppable android. It just happens that Linda, a female policewoman who was killed while guarding the sheik's son, has her corpse taken by Dr. Sara and her android assistant Anna, and her memory is placed in the fighting android EVE R27, modified to look like the human Linda. Now she has a second chance to stop Yamamoto and save the Sheik's son. There are various subplots including Linda's relationship with her boyfriend, but that only seems to be there for an excuse for sex and nudity.

As you may have guessed, this is one of those Hong Kong movies that's really over the top. Sometimes an attitude like that can be amusing to watch whenever there's an action sequence, meaning that we get to see knives thrown into people's mouths, flame-throwers used, and one of the most bizarre (and gory) decapitations ever depicted. All this kind of violence is never shown to be believable for a second, so we can distance ourselves and have fun seeing the blood splatter. However, there are a couple of scenes where things go over the top, yet are quite uncomfortable to watch. This comes with a couple of brutal rape sequences. Although there is still an air of unrealism in these scenes, it is nowhere as evident here as it is in the action sequences. The rapes in the movie are played out more realistically, with the criminal in these sequences giving off a quite nasty edge when doing the crime.

Very little is left to the imagination, and the movie comes close in these two scenes to becoming hard-core pornography. What may offend viewers even more are the female victims' attitudes towards being raped, both during and after the act. During the actual act, the women don't seem as upset as you'd think, and the woman who survives her attack has shrugged off the experience the next time we see her. This is not the first time I've noticed this kind of thing in Asian movies. The chauvinistic view of sex and women can also be seen when the police attempt to place a sting to capture the guy. A female android working with the police, curious about sex, decides to volunteer to be a prostitute at a whorehouse in order to try and find the culprit. This leads to not only an excuse for more sex and nudity, but a lot of wacky hijinks, many centering around her horny human male backup team members. There's some weird humor to be found in this sequence, though this sequence does little to advance the plot.

The action sequences of Robotrix are very inventive. The use of wire work here is particularly inventive, with the characters making all sorts of fantastic maneuvers in the air. Also, the hand-to-hand fighting is swift, punishing, and exciting. The movie rarely takes itself seriously. One scene at a robot exposition has a businessman scoffing the fighting capabilities of a particular android, and immediately afterwards rips off his blazer and shirt to do bare-chested battle with the machine.

Never boring, there is always some kind of peculiarity, something laughable (intentional or not), that keeps you interested in Robotrix. Just be aware of all the graphic sex and violence before you watch it!

Rated III for partial nudity, sexual situations and violence.