Cyborg
by Albert Pyun
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Actor: Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon, Deborah Richter, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Vincent KlynDirector: Albert Pyun
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-08-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Cyborg
Movie Review: Van Damme Becomes a Star
Summary: 2 Stars
Using costumes and some effect intended for a sequel to the live action MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, CYBORG is a bleak and apocalyptic film best known for securing the film career of Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film takes place in a future United States that has been decimated by a plague and internal violence. The film begins in New York City. A female cyborg named Pearl Prophet (Dale Haddon) has retrieved information stored within her memory that when brought back to Atlanta (former headquarters of Centers for Disease Control) should bring about a cure for the plague that has killed and is killing so many others. Unfortunately, Pearl runs into a group of pirates led by Fender Tremolo (Vincent Kyln) a big and ugly villain who grunts a lot and who has scary-looking eyes. While running away from Fender, Pearl runs into Gibson Rickenbacker (Van Damme). Gibson is a wandering do-gooder who has spent the last several years of his life training for the day when he would meet Fender again and get his revenge for killing his loved ones. In their first encounter, Gibson is left for dead. Of course, he's not dead but is just unconscious under a pile of rubble. After crawling his way out, Gibson follows the path of Fender, determined to save Pearl and get his revenge. Also, while following Fender's path, Gibson rescues a young woman named Nady Simmons (Deborah Richter). Gibson eventually meets up with Fender again and battle and mayhem ensue.
CYBORG was directed by Albert Pyun. Pyun has gained a reputation as being a modern Ed Wood. He's directed over forty movies, usually on a shoestring, and will probably be forever infamously known as the man who directed the CAPTAIN AMERICA movie that was never released in U.S. theatres. There are some people who are huge Pyun fans. If you know what you are getting into and are in the right mindset, then a Pyun film can be bearable to watch. But there's a reason besides the huge amount of projects and cheap budgets that Pyun is compared to Ed Wood. His movies have terribly written scripts with bad dialogue and nonsensical plots, usually full of holes. His films usually also have a huge amount of violence. CYBORG has all of those elements as well as a cast of characters named after guitars and other musical instruments.
There's only one reason that I watched CYBORG. Several years ago while flipping through the channels late at night I came across the most memorable scene in the movie. I won't give that scene away, but I was so mesmerized by what I saw that I decided to rent the movie and watch the whole thing. The rest of the movie pales in comparison to that scene, but the scene is worth watching.
CYBORG isn't a good movie. It's a bad movie, but not quite bad enough to be campy. If you enjoy fighting movies and can get past the weak plot, cheesy costumes, musical instrument-named characters, and terrible dialogue, then you might enjoy CYBORG. For everyone else, I would recommend only out of curiosity.
Summary of Cyborg
Jean-Claude Van Damme a.k.a. "the Muscles from Brussels" had only a few movies to his credit when he played the hero in this lame postapocalyptic action flick from 1989. It is really just another martial-arts movie dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the protective escort for a half-human half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague that has threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped by Van Dammes evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into a lions den of sadomasochistic torture and torment. If you have made it this far (and if you have why?) you are probably a founding member of the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: Do not say you were not warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters after electric guitars (Van Dammes character is named "Gibson Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever screenwriting. System Requirements:Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme et al. Director: Albert Pyun Edition Details: Region 1 encoding (for use in US and Canada only) Color Closed-captioned Widescreen AC-3 Theatrical trailer(s) Full-screen and widescreen letterbox formats Number of discs: 1 Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating:?R UPC:?027616656124Jean-Claude Van Damme, a.k.a. "the Muscles from Brussels," had only a few movies to his credit when he played the hero in this lame postapocalyptic action flick from 1989. It's really just another martial-arts movie, dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the protective escort for a half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague that's threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped by Van Damme's evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into a lion's den of sadomasochistic torture and torment. If you've made it this far (and if you have, why?), you're probably a founding member of the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: Don't say you weren't warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters after electric guitars (Van Damme's character is named "Gibson Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever screenwriting. --Jeff Shannon
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