The Italian film industry attempted sci fi movies every so often and they had to try again after Star Wars. Low budget sci fi's domain is television. A TV show can draw people once they become interested in the characters and storyline despite how obviously cheap it looks. In movies, not so much. You better have more to offer than a couple of shape shifting (not literally) characters and a love triangle in space.
Italian sci fi would change for the better after the success of movies like The Warriors, Mad Max, Escape From New York, Road Warriors, and Terminator gave them something easier to emulate. At least you dont need much of a budget to pull of those settings. I consider War of The Robots to be a failed experiment. The effects would be akin to something made almost 20 years earlier and maybe it would have been more accepted back then.
I do like the cast. I've seen several actors in other movies like Venantino Venantini, Antonio Sabato, and Massimo Righi. They do what they can.
Italian sci fi would change for the better after the success of movies like The Warriors, Mad Max, Escape From New York, Road Warriors, and Terminator gave them something easier to emulate. At least you dont need much of a budget to pull of those settings. I consider War of The Robots to be a failed experiment. The effects would be akin to something made almost 20 years earlier and maybe it would have been more accepted back then.
I do like the cast. I've seen several actors in other movies like Venantino Venantini, Antonio Sabato, and Massimo Righi. They do what they can.