This is a B movie through and through. Nothing about it transcends that designation (setting aside some two cast members who were or would become A listers). It's possibly the worst movie I've watched since I started tracking my watch activity. To use a modern analogy, It is kind of like if you watched a buggy walking simulator video game being played by someone else. There is nothing disturbing, offensive, funny, frightening, nor thought-provoking about this movie. I have rated movies that genuinely infuriated me by way of their narrative, higher than this.

The sets, the props, the costumes, the acting, the camp are all so amazingly funny. Yes this is ripping a lot from Aliens (There's two characters named Weyland and Yutani even), but there's so many extra little decisions that make this so so worth it. Why does it cut to Dante's toys after he asks to have sex with a woman? Why does the computer voice sound like a nice old British lady? Why is this white guy with a rising sun tattoo who does "stereotypical Japanese things" one of the good guys and a Humanist? What's up with the cartoonish blunts they smoke? I don't know but I need people to see this movie and ask these questions with me.

This stars Brad Dourif as a psychotic, emotionally-stunted genius inventor whose apple doesn't fall far from the Heath-Ledger-as-Joker tree. He's actually so over the top that he's annoying and if you go looking for subtlety from the other cast members, forget it. "Death Machine" is a loud, messy movie. The characters spend the last half of the movie running around, opening an endless number of doors. If you like movies with characters using card swipers and entering codes to run in and out of rooms, this is your flick. All of the characters yell at each other, insulting and quipping continually. They shoot automatic weapons, pumping hundreds of rounds into a killer robot that basically shreds its victims. At first the shots of the robot are all done from its own point of view, which is kind of cool, until the filmmakers beat the technique into the ground. The story itself doesn't make much sense at all and character motivations are nearly non-existent. The "death machine" robot looks alright when it's finally shown from head to toe. There is some pretty well done stop-motion in places, but overall the whole movie has a cheap '90s straight to home video look.