[Sentai]

As anyone else seen this movie? I remember watching it when I was fourteen or fifteen and we had HBO. The basic premise is a little like G Gundam, but without magic powers. Five years after a Nuclear War the countries who survived, who merged into two super-counties (Basically one was American and the other was the Soviet Union) forbid war. So they create the Robot Jox. Gladiator styled combat between two giant Mecha.

It starred Gary Graham (Alien Nation) as the Western Market pilot, a man who couldn't read. So his Mechanic, who was Japanese, made origami for what each switch did.

It wasn't a bad B-Movie. The Stop-Motion/CG for the Mechs wasn't horrible, the Western Market's mech could sit down into a kind-of tank mode. (Imagine the original megazord, but without dinosaurs) And both could somehow fly into space. And I remember the Soviet's mech was a spidertaur like design.

With Pacific Rim coming out next year, this movie kept creeping into my mind.

As a bonus, there's our hero versus his Russian rival.