The Revenge of Robert the Doll

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This time Rober the Doll gets trapped in Nazi Germany, Just the same awful filmmaking, with it's awful script and direction.

I usually have very high tolerant toward movies and will finish them but this one, I could not. Really bad-written script, boring story, slow-developing plot. No climax or exciting part. The movie was not even focusing on the killer doll. Lots of unrelatable plots and scenes that would not affect anything at all. The doll moves in very odd way and from every past movies, part of the doll was not shown when the doll was moving and it claerly told people that was how you moved and controlled the doll and it was super lame considering they were movies from this era. The only part you could see when the doll was waving a weapon was its hand, seriously? This was the best you could do? Today's CGI technology is so advanced and you could not even create a moving doll while showing its whole body? I was trying so hard to feel the atmosphere of a horror movie but I could not, even the BGM was off, not helping at all. They were not even trying to create sound effects. As an amateur, I don't know how to write professional reviews for movies. But honestly, I don't think this movie will satisfy anyone. I don't think the crews were making any efforts at all. I don't understand why they are still making movies without improvements despite the failures of the previous ones.

THE REVENGE OF ROBERT THE DOLL is part of a British indie horror film series that feels heavily inspired by the PUPPET MASTER franchise. It's about an aged toy maker who makes a doll which proceeds to come to lift with murderous intentions. Sadly, while this film is fairly well shot and put together, it doesn't feel like a horror film at all. It plays out like a historical drama with an endless 40-something minute prologue before the usual cheesy horror material hits.

I rarely give bad reviews, because I find it hard to, but this time I find it hard *not* to, almost impossible. It's like they made a bad horror movie and said "It's too badly done, nobody will watch it! Oh! I know! Let's add some clips of a random doll, and call it Robert. Oh look! Now everybody will watch this movie." I said about halfway through that I want to give up on the movie and just go back to doing my own thing, but I was too optimistic saying that I should try harder and harder to watch this, and the thing that seriously killed it for me was the end. That argument between the guy possessing the book and his sister was sooooooo fake. I wish that argument had been about 10 minutes in, because I would've turned the movie off right there and watched something else.

Well shot, well acted, no story. I mean, really, no story. Nothing really happens. Sure, there are a few doll murders, but wow.... It was like they had a short story that wasnt very interesting and they padded it to 80 minutes. No gore, no scares, no tension, no resolution, and bad make up. In the middle of the movie, they switch main characters. The costumes were very good, the cinematography was very good, the acting was very good considering what the actors were given. But you never care about ANY of the characters. Really, avoid this one.

It will always be a mystery to me, why these kind of movies get made. Setting things up in nazi Germany around the 1940s usually goes 2 ways. It will be either extremely authentic with a lot of love to details, focussing on the cruel mindset of the fanatically following soldiers, or, just as we can see in this movie as simply another one of countless examples out there, with the main focus on crappy German accent throughout the entire dialogue lines, preferably adding nothing special to the plot and already were annoying at times of Indiana Jones and such alikes. Just because there are actors like Schwarzenegger (I know, Austrian origin, but the point remains the same), who never ever felt the need to visit a language class to get rid of this accent after living in the US for decades, it doesn't justify a movie made in 2018 to still base entire fims on this atrocity of a conversation tool. And The Revenge of Robert the Doll delivers basically only that. Terrible lines, horrible acting, bad effects and no scares whatsoever throughout the entire film. People get asked a question in this dismembered English and answer back in German. Several times with the lousy cliche "nein". Someone at some point found this funny for no reason. Imagine a country constantly jiggeling over a "no" for almost a century. Your only thought will be: What the...? I can honestly say that I had this thought all the way through, no matter what the movie brought up. On top they like to throw in some other German vocabulary and then it becomes even worse. These actors were not even able to pronounce the words or names of the cities correctly. For sakes of authenticity please use real Germans (even if it might just be for a quick voice over) or stick to your guns and do it in your native tongue. Whatever you do, stop pretending! In this movie there was only one woman fluent in the language and she was not even relevant to the plot. What a sad summary. This is one of the worst films I have ever seen. I never saw the other parts and that seems to be a good thing after this wasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. You can call this a Horror movie, but only because everything in it was aweful. Not to use the phrase horrible.

It's not much to complain about i guess but this guy really seems to like making movies about killing Nazis. this is the third one I have seen from him in the last year. as for this movie it feels a bit like similar to Robert and the toymaker basically a puppet master knock off only with better locations. the train is a nice touch and in this one there are some good flashbacks to the crusty toymaker as a younger guy which are well acted and emotional. outside of that its mainly just people or dolls killing Nazis. traffic cop Nazis, people who try to sell stuff to Nazis, people who kidnap people who are linked to people who tried to sell stuff to Nazis, Nazis on trains, even real Nazis in old black and white footage. obsess much mister director? lol I think more Nazis have bitten the dust in his movies than in the whole of world war 2

This is the 4th & possibly final time we'll see Robert the doll as per the ending seems to be a prequel starting off from where the first partially began from the weak & watery franchise! The films picks up from the 3rd film to which the Toy Maker attempts to flee the country. Nazi German SAS Agents are trying to intercept him, while a man & his wife are in possession of the spell book to make dolls come back to life! So while the old man tries to flee on the train with Robert & the 2 other dolls, the wife steels the spell book & goes on a rampage! She comes across a bad man ( I say bad man, because I have no idea what this plum had to do with the story or it's plot let alone overall theme of the film & what relevance he had for being in this film to start with, other than to be a filler character to drag out an already boring tired out story-line!). But any he gets killed along with the fleeing wife by an agent of the German SAS, another twist & then the husband of the wife also gets killed by another German SAS Agent & then the film finally gets back on track to the Toy Maker & there by another bloody massacre between him & the agents ensures! The film seems to be, like the previous, too over padded & dragged out for it to be a about a killer doll, the focus was neglecting what it was to suppose to be focusing on in the first place! Even the deaths & effects seemed pretty sh!te! The characters were thin & boring & well seemed to be there only for holding the plot up, which even then was way over done & trying to be some else it wasn't, while missing the point of the main focus & theme! As usual, the deaths were tame & uncreative! There was little to no point in this film other than to make another sequel, then the end came & I knew, this was a prequel of sort for definite, though the previous film demonstrated that too. Overall a low point sequel with a over padded plot & weak & watery effects, characters & action sequences! The film seemed to be worse than the first 2 in other ways... & that's speaking volumes there!Rock bottom... almost

My God. And this one is light years ahead of the others. I really did try to be fair and give this film a chance considering it was touted as having an IMDb rating of 6.2. But after sitting through the embarrassingly tedious dialog and acting, not to mention the shoddy After Effects blood splatter when the highway criminal dispatched the first two guards, I began to lose hope. I also can't for the life of me understand what SS Reich Marshall Heinrich Himmler would want with an ancient book of Egyptian incantations that would cause tiny toy dolls to animate. Did the Nazis think they could turn the tide of the war by outfitting an army of baby dolls with machetes and daggers to stab their way across Europe? The whole premise is as weak and laughable as the production quality. That old 1930's car kept rolling 5 mph down that same piece of farmland road as though it had no drive train and was being pushed from behind by the film crew. Thank God for the drone footage (circa 1939) that removed any doubt that the car wasn't being pushed by the film crew. I got more than halfway through and the Toy Maker appears seated on a train with his family of animated dolls, looking to be almost as much of a doll as his non-frightening creations. The pale contact lenses...the beard and hair that looked like bits of cotton ball stuck to his face and head with 3M spray mount. I mean...was this a serious attempt at a horror film, or were they going for something so over-the-top schlocky that they hoped it would gain TRHPS-style popularity? Great God in heaven, how many people actually paid money to see this? People who read these reviews want to be warned about spoilers, but this movie was one big fat stinky turd wrapped in a cocoon of dried vomit. I don't think anything could spoil something that smelled worse than a five year case of chronic vaginitis.