Cyborg (DVD)

With Jean-Claude Van Damme still emerging onto the screen, but having made a big name for himself with an impressive performance the year before in Bloodsport, 1989's Cyborg promised big things from the Muscles from Brussels. However, rather than retain the working formula from 1988's Bloodsport by limiting the plot and letting JC martial art his way to the credits, director Albert Pyun gave him a bit of a dramatic role to contend with, and the results are kind of mixed. Part of the appeal of Van Damme is his prowess at martial arts, and while Cyborg gives him the chance to exercise these skills and showcase them a little bit for the viewers, the plot keeps ...

Film review only '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 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!' Possibly the most ludicrous film in Van-Damme's C.V, Cyborg is set far in the future in a ravaged society after a massive plague has wiped out most of humanity. Van Damme plays Gibson Rickenbacker (yes) a lone ...

I sat down to watch this in the perfect setting - 38 inch widescreen TV with surround sound, loa1ds of coke (cola), chips, dip, and a bunch of the lads. We'd picked up the vid for £2.99 in HMV - you can't go wrong with jean-claude, with such classics to his name as Timecop, dead heat, blood sport, and lest we forget that beauty double impact which gives us 2 Van Dammes in one film! Oh does life get any better???!!! (btw, there is a slight tinge of sarcasm in this review...) So anyway, we sat down expecting the usual thing - Jean-Claude taking on the world - and winning - with plenty of fighting and the ubiquitous splits. In this respect, we weren't ...