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

Release Date: April 7, 1989

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DVD Release Date: August 15, 2001

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  • September 28, 2009
    Pero que?
  • 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) the camera work bad, the background and props looked like a middle school play, the graphics were low standards even for 1989, and the worst was the acting! The bad guy just raised his arms and screamed AAARGH! Wow, that's menacing.

    It's nice to watch JCVD round house kick his way through a movie... but it's sad to watch the guy he hits NOT sell the fight and then for the sound to be a half second off.

    Geez, kill me now.... I'd rather watch a whole season of crap like Laguna Beach than watch this movie again.
  • 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)e end of every jean claude film is a martial arts fest and pretty cool.
  • 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.
  • November 19, 2009
    PRETTY GOOD ACTION FLICK
  • October 3, 2009
    saw this a lot back in the day
  • September 26, 2009
    thundarr gone wild. forgot bout all the dead bodies everywhere and barbed wire torture scenes.. pretty twisted for 1989 but way cheesed out. the main bad guy is one scary looking mofo.
  • September 18, 2009
    First there was the collapse of civilization: anarchy, genocide, starvation. Then when it seemed things couldn't get any worse, we got the plague. The Living Death, quickly closing its fist over the entire planet. Then we heard the rumors: that the last scientists were working...( read more) on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!!?

    I thought Fender Tremelo (Vincent Klyn) and Brick Bardo (Ralf Moeller) were two of the craziest looking enemies Jean-Claude Van Damme has faced in his movies. Fender Tremelo's eyes had that icy cold stare to them. Actually Fender's whole gang of pirates were manaical looking. It's actually funny, but if you look into the names of most of the characters, you'll notice that they're named after various musical instruments. Gibson Rickenbacker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) are two of my favorite guitar and bass instruments. Cyborg was based in a post-apocolyptic future with everything in disarray and laden with death. A good shot of a nude male and female corpse crucified back to back in what looks like a telephone pole in a crumbling city at the start. A great science-fiction thriller.
  • August 8, 2009
    One of my favorites...

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