The Ending?

And a locker with his stuff in it too. The motorcycle was surrounded in velvet ropes, and had the key in it.

If these 2 idiots were the designers of R.O.T.O.R., why didn't they even know about his weakness to car horns, and every other thing? Only the Bait Woman knew to use the car horn.

And if it wasn't supposed to be ready for 25 years... why did it have a moustache?

And why it was completely functional, except for the "being evil" part? Do the need years to make it "not evil"?

Hi. I ran across your post and thought I'd comment. I was the editor on this "masterpiece". I was fresh out of college and got a job at a post house in Dallas and it was my first opportunity to edit a feature film. I was so excited to have a chance to do that at such a young age. When the footage started coming in I was shocked at how truly awful it was. I did the best I could with very minimal coverage. There was, as you can imagine, a VERY small budget on this thing. Plus many of the key players were inexperienced.

I wanted to answer your inquiry about why some voices were dubbed. In the case of the lead actor...he was one of the "producers" (maybe even an investor) on the movie and insisted on being the lead. Sadly, not only could he not act, but his voice was a high pitched, nasally tone that didn't work at all. The other producers (against his wishes) decided to dub all of his parts with another actor with a deeper macho voice. That created a ton of extra work. In retrospect, had they left his voice in the film it would have been even more unintentionally hilarious.
I have many stories about the making of this film. For one, it was too short which is why the opening and closing credits are so painfully looooooong.
Also, they dumped all of the money earmarked for special fx into the 3D model of ROTOR so when it got to the bit where the evil cop puts the jumper cables together to "charge" they had no cash for special electrical fx (back in those days it was a far more expensive proposition than today), so we just reversed some frames to a negative image and cut back and forth very quickly and put some sound fx in there. SO cheesy and bargain basement!!

I watched this for the first time in 20 years last year and laughed my ass off. I think it's in the IMDB as one of the 50 worst movies of all time which actually makes me proud in some twisted way. I think this movie is beautifully terrible. Kinda like "The Room". (a must see if you're not familiar)

It was a learning experience to be sure. I continued to pursue my editing career and got out of features in the 90s to focus on commercial work eventually owning my own post production company so it all worked out.

But ROTOR was one heckuva weird experience! Cheers....