gorf The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy is probably one of the most boring movies I've ever watched. It took me five times before I finally managed to finish it. I just couldn't stay awake...It's so darn uninteresting. It's just a long summary of the previous movies in the series...this is not one of those movies that are "so bad they're good". It's just bad. The fight between the Aztec Mummy and the robot must be the worst fight scene in movie history. It almost makes me believe that I fell asleep again and had a nightmare.The only positive thing I can say about it is that there's nothing truly offensive in it. The good guys are good, the bad guys are bad (in more ways than one). The pagan mummy can be defeated by the Cross. Then there's the classic "evil scientists shouldn't mess around with dangerous stuff" theme. It's too bad the rest of the movie smells worse than a mummy's breath.

zardoz-13 "Attack of the Mayan Mummy" director Rafael Portillo's "The Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy" ranks as one of the most egregiously awful horror epics ever produced! Basically, scenarists Guillermo Calderón and Alfredo Salazar have appropriated two Universal horror classics "The Mummy" and "Frankenstein" and turned the ghouls loose on each other. This low-budget, 65-minute tale occurs largely in flashback with the principal participant, Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay of "Face of the Screaming We"), providing copious but cogent stretches of expository dialogue about his misadventures trying to acquire an ancient breastplate and a necklace. As it turns out, Dr. Almada hypnotized his fiancée, Flora (Rosa Arenas), and he was surprised to learn that she had been an Aztec princess Xochitl in another life! She died at the hands of the tribal authorities after they found out that she had been having an affair with a lower caste warrior. Dr. Almada's chief nemesis, the obese Dr. Kupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda of "Santo and the Diabolical Brain), is just as determined to lay his heads on the sacred breastplate and the necklace. No matter what they do, they cannot steal those prized items without awakening the Mummy. The Mummy was killed, too, and cursed for eternity to never let anybody carry off the relics. Dr. Kupp realizes his predicament, obtains a dead a body, a brain, and manufactures a large robot to contend with the invincible Mummy. The robot looks hilarious, with big tubes protruding from his helmet-like head. He has gear-shaped arms with pincers for hands. The robot looks cartoon-like, and the face of a man is visible in the face plate of the helmet. When the robot perambulates, it wobbles amusingly from one side to the next, and robot doesn't speak. For that matter, the Mummy only makes guttural sounds. The battle between these two titans is ephemeral, and outcome is thoroughly predictable. The Mummy triumphs over robot, and the Mummy lumbers off to return to its original resting place with the breastplate and necklace intact.The Mexican cast has been obviously dubbed, and the dialogue in their conversations sounds stilted. Luis Aceves Castañeda resembles Victor Buono, and he looks insanely hysterical. Essentially, there are only about three or four scenes where the Mummy appears. First, he attacks the villains, smashes a man so that sulphuric acid burns his face and the Mummy carries Dr. Kupp off to a snake-pit. For the rest of the movie, Kupp's right-hand henchman walks around with his collar turned up to conceal the hideous scar. This tedious tale of terror is good for lots of laughs.

William Samuel I recently wrote of The Lost Continent that it was "worthless except as a sleep aid." Well now I must admit that has nothing on The Aztec Mummy vs. the Human Robot, or "La Momia Azteca Contra el Roboto Humano" in its original Spanish. Mummy vs. Robot is likely the least frightening horror movie and least thrilling thriller I've ever seen. It might be the worst movie ever made in Mexico, and that's saying a lot. Rarely has it ever taken so long to do so little, except in a Philip Glass opera.Aztec Mummy vs. Robot is actually the final installment in a trilogy that also includes The Aztec Mummy and Revenge of the Aztec Mummy. In fact, the first half of this movie is spent reviewing the plots of the previous two. This of course means lots of narrated flashbacks utilizing footage from the earlier films, inter-spaced with scenes of the main characters sitting in a living room having this all explained to them. The funny thing is, most of these people were there for most of the events described, so they should already know this.The first Aztec Mummy movie was basically a rip off of Universal's The Mummy. A young woman realizes that in a past life, she was an Aztec Princess sacrificed to one of their gods. But before she got her heart cut out, she had an illicit romance with a warrior, who was buried alive as punishment, and has spent the last thousand years guarding the princess's tomb. Sucks to be him. Anyway, the girl, her shrink, and his archaeologist buddies went to the tomb, recovered some priceless artifacts, and were attacked by the mummy, who eventually got his treasure back.In the second installment, a mustached, crazy-eyed villain called 'The Bat' kidnapped the chick and forced the good guys to help him steal the treasure, before blowing up the tomb to kill the mummy. Didn't work; the mummy showed up at his hideout, grabbed the treasure, and threw him into a pit full of rattlers. Every mad scientist's lab needs a pit full of rattlers, right? But I digress. It turns out the bad guy's still alive, he knows where the mummy is, and he's built a robot to help him defeat the mummy. For reasons which I'm sure make sense to him, he once again kidnaps the heroes and forces them to help him.This may sound like a lot of action packed into one movie, but remember that we only hear people talking about half of this, without actually seeing it take place. And the parts we do actually see aren't that great either. The actors can't act, the effects are nonexistent, many of the scenes are so poorly lit you can't see what's happening, and all of this happens at a glacially slow pace. If you manage to stay awake through all this, you finally get to see what you came for: the robot and the mummy mixing it up.Alas, this proves to be rather anticlimactic as it is most assuredly the SLOWEST FIGHT EVER. I've seen fights between tortoises that were more gripping than this. Octogenarians with walkers could run circles around these guys. I waited an hour and a half to see the promised robot-mummy action, and was even more boring than the rest of the movie. I can't recommend this one even as a sleep aid. Leave Aztec Mummy to rot where it belongs, the graveyard shift on your local Spanish language TV station.

dbborroughs Final of three films (all were shot at the same time and play as one long rambling story) concerning the evil Dr Krupp who wants the treasure of the Aztec pyramid. He makes a robot with a human brain to fight the mummy and to use an atomic ray to try and kill him. The mummy and the robot only battle in the last two or three minutes of the movie, and the robot only shows up in the last ten. As with the second film this movie has tons of material from the previous films which makes it an action packed little film, except if you've just seen the previous films, in which case this is a long haul. I have a soft spot for this film because its one of the first movies I ever bought on video tape. That doesn't make it any better than just okay, it just means I have a soft spot.Its an amusing bad film that ripe for picking on. In some ways its better than the first two films, if only it has all the high points from the previous films, but at the same time its probably not a film I can recommend to anyone with out explaining what they are getting into. Probably the one film of the series to see, its short, action packed, and rather silly.