Cyborg

Alex Daniels, Blaise Loong, Dayle Haddon

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's really just another mar...( read more  read more... )tial-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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R, 86 min.

Directed by: Albert Pyun

Released: April 7, 1989

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DVD Released: August 15, 2001

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  • September 3, 2008
    If Jean Claude Van Dame were a little bit younger, then he would've had a more successful career in this generation. Prime example: Cyborg.

    This movie is so bad on so many different levels. I swear they were running on a $100 budget after JCVD's salary.

    The sound was awful,... ...( read more )
  • September 5, 2007
    another terminator style plot line and a mad max rip of sorts.its not too bad for an early effort....when i was young i watched it purely for the action and martial arts sequences,it has'nt got much else.the main baddie is pretty evil looking and as usual the final showdown at th... ...( read more )
  • January 25, 2007
    eh, not one of his best
  • December 30, 2006
    Another inept action flick from JCVD, this time with a hopelessly dimwitted and cliched sci-fi spin. Cheap and stupid.
  • October 21, 2006
    the bad guy in this movie use 2 give me nightmares
  • June 14, 2009
    claude and blood = fun fun fun. It lives in the shadow of other films released at this time like the robocops and terminators, and even jcvds universal soldier has bigger cult status, but this is well worth watching if your a fan of late eighties film making.

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