A Bring Out the GIMP (Girls in Merciless Peril) Movie Review


Robotrix

Reviewed by John Galt


Robotrix (Nu ji xie ren, 1991) is a highly entertaining HK exploitation flick starring the drop-dead gorgeous Chinese Amy Yip and the equally beautiful Japanese Chikako Aoyama, and the not-too-bad looking Chinese Hiu-Dan Hui. Chinese language with English subtitles. It is kind of a science fiction detective robot story, and I found the plot to be nicely engaging. But I really appreciated the GIMP parts.

It begins with a kidnapping during which Linda (the beautiful Miss Aoyama) takes a bullet to her chest and promptly dies. But wait! There's a plot development involving multinational corporations building prototype robots. So before you know it, the apparently still-present life force of Linda is transferred into a robot body that is a duplicate of her real body. The female scientist who pulls off this technological feat is Dr. Sara (Hiu-Dan Hui) and during the transference we get to see Chikako Aoyama's large and shapely breasts. In duplicate, in fact, since her dead body is on one table and her new life-like robot body is on the other. Amy Yip is another of Dr. Sara's life-like robots.

The bad guy who did the initial kidnapping was an old mad scientist who transferred his mind into a younger, stronger, and much hornier life-like robot body. So resurrected policewoman Linda and the cops are assigned to find the bad guy, who, at this very moment, is in a bar picking up a pretty girl. He takes the girl to a hotel room and engages in extremely rough sex. When the girl tells him to stop and tries to leave, he pushes her back on the bed. She cowers at the head of the bed, but he grabs her legs and pulls her toward him, then holds her feet up and out and begins thrusting into her again. She fights and struggles and he just laughs, but when she slaps his face, he gets really angry. He picks her up by the throat, slams her against the wall, and rapes her there until she's dead and blood is flowing down the insides of her legs. Then he tosses her out the window. Although it starts off consensual, it turns into quite an effective (and brutal) rape scene. Extremely high GIMP level.

I won't retell the plot, which as I indicated I found very entertaining, but instead will point out the good scenes. The next good scene is a non-GIMP scene, showing Linda nude and having sex and apparently she is a completely accurate facsimile of a female because the guy seems to be enjoying himself immensely. It is a lengthy sex scene. Chikako Aoyama is hot.

Since the bad guy has a predilection for prostitutes, the cops decide to set up a sting to try to lure him in. Anna (Amy Yip) will play the prostitute. We get to see her undress for a john, take off her bra and get down to business in a lengthy sex scene. Though we see mostly side boobage and, thanks to careful limb placement, no nipple goodness, what we see is magnificent. Amy Yip is hot.

There's another brief topless scene with Chikako Aoyama when she tells her boyfriend that now she's a robot. He spurns her (the idiot) even though he's already boinked her just a couple paragraphs back.

Now we jump to the next GIMP scene. The bad guy (we think) has been dispatched because his head has been removed from his body. The head and body are in Dr. Sara's lab while she is doing some research. (This next part is so much better, although substantially less inventive, than the headless oral sex rape scene in Re-Animator.) While she works, the body gets up and puts its head back on. Then it attacks Dr. Sara. Next thing we see, Dr. Sara is naked with her arms bound behind her and pulled up, standing bent over on a lighted pedestal (a nice touch, that lighted pedestal) in her lab, legs apart, in kind of a strappado arrangement. The bad guy walks up behind her and rapes her from the back. It's a nice scene as you watch her pained expression as he enters her, then her expression as her body bounces back and forth as he thrusts into her. She does some nice grunting and groaning and makes helpless cries. There's a flash of frontal nudity. There's a side view as her breasts bounce back and forth as well.

Next he reaches down and picks up her legs, so that she's suspended horizontally with her legs spread and he continues raping her, bouncing her entire body forward with each thrust. There's no way the flimsy ropes (although actually they look like plastic strings) binding her arms could be supporting her weight, but oh well. Then he lets her down, walks around in front of her, and hikes her up (presumably) onto his cock and continues raping her that way, still energetically bouncing her up and down. She is making great sounds this entire time. Hiu-Dan Hui knows how to sell nonconsensual sex.

Then he undoes the "rope" holding her up (although her wrists are still bound behind her back) and lets her fall to her knees. We are treated to a nice lingering view of her naked kneeling body on the lighted platform. She slowly looks up at him and he takes hold of her hair and rams her face into his crotch, forcing her to fellate him. He kind of takes control of the action, moving her head back and forth and doing her quite violently until he tires of her (or comes) and pushes her to the lighted floor.

Another nice long shot of her naked body, arms bound behind her back, as the bad guy laughs maniacally and does up his pants. He is just about to kill her when the good guys bust in and start fighting him. Near the end of the fight there's a nice scene where the bad guy immobilizes Linda (Chikako Aoyama) and takes a big power drill and drills through her belly as she jerks and writhes on the floor. It's brief but notable.

Well, the bad guy escapes, they track him down and destroy him once and for all, Dr. Sara rebuilds Linda except leaves out her memories of being a robot and that's it.

The bad guy raping the prostitute is a great GIMP scene. No bondage, but since he technically rapes her to death, it counts as the ultimate rape scene. High marks. The bad guy raping Dr. Sara also gets high marks. It could have been more violent, but it was very intense the way it was filmed and paced. So it gets high marks. This is a non-GIMP movie with two exceptional GIMP sequences that to my way of thinking delivered completely. My grade for Robotrix is a nice solid B.


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