Joe Haldeman's Look at Making Robot Jox
For an insightful look at the making of this movie, check out Joe Haldeman's "Autobiographical Ramble."
http://home.earthlink.net/~haldeman/biolong.html
It's all worth reading, and the bit on this movie starts halfway down.
"Some people enjoy it, but to me it's as if I'd had a child who started out well and then sustained brain damage."