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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Directed by Albert Pyun in 1989, this is one of Jean-Claude van Damme's early outings and is very different to the run of the mill martial arts films he had appeared in up to that point. Set in a post-holocaust plague devastated world, JCvD is a sort of bodyguard who is protecting a female cyborg (cue naff special effects) who is carrying a cure for the plague. Link into this a revenge quest for JCvD and you have all the ingredients for the classic good guy/bad guy confrontation at the end. This is primarily an action film so there isn't too much in it to stretch JCvd's rudimentary acting talents. The story is fairly interesting and runs along at a ...  Read the complete review

Made in 1989, CYBORG stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Gibson Rickenbacker who is searching for a cure for the plague which is sweeping America in the post-apocalyptic world in which the movie is set. Sadly, despite the possibilities that this storyline has, the film is mediocre at best. The worst thing going for it is the fact that it stars Van Damme. Face it, the man cannot act. He has all the emotion of a dung beetle and cannot carry a film for more than five minutes. Sometimes films like this are saved by the special effects but this can't be said of CYBORG, because they are about as 'special' as Van Damme's acting skills. All ...  Read the complete review