Cyborg (DVD) Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review