Go to hell!! Been there... (Cyborg (DVD))

Member Name: adambrown400

Product:	Cyborg (DVD)
Date:	21/05/09 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some decent fight scenes

Disadvantages: Exploitative and cheap

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 street fighter cum bounty hunter who comes up against a vicious street gang led by Fender Tremoto (Vincent Klyn). The world has been ravaged by a plague that has wiped out most of humanity. The last surviving people scientists, based in Atlanta, are trying to come up with a cure. Dayle Haddon plays a cyborg who travels to New York City to find some information stored on a computer. Once there, she is captured by Tremoto who wants to keep the world as it is. Plot wise, the film is pretty poor.

Why try and create a cure to a plague that has more or less killed everyone already? Why does Tremoto have a weird robotic accent and strange eyes?

Possibly the most ridiculous scene in the film has our hero Van Damme crucified to the mast of a washed up boat. As Van Damme merely grins and scowls his was through the crucifixion he is amazingly able to burst off of the mast through his mere strength. He is then able to deck about fifty atomic-punks a couple of moments later.

The fight scenes are reasonable, but feel claustrophobic due to the poor 'pan and scan' version of the film I watched on ITV4. There is quite a lot of brutality in the film as well, making it feel slightly exploitative.

The acting is OK to poor, with Van Damme here still trying to get to grips with this acting lark. Vincent Klyn's Tremoto is suitably nasty, but ripped right off of the Kurgan from Highlander.

Cyborg is a cheap Cannon film from the 80's, its not quite Conan, not quite Predator, its just quite rubbish.

Summary: Ludicrous from start to finish