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Cyborg
Slinger / Masters of the Universe 2: Cyborg / Heat Seekers

USA 1989
produced by
Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan for Cannon
directed by Albert Pyun
starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon, Blaise Loong, Ralf Moeller, Haley Peterson, Terrie Batson, Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney, Janice Graser, Robert Pentz, Sharon K. Tew, Chuck Allen, Stefanos Miltsakakis, Kristina Sebastian, Thomas Barley, Dale Frye, Jophery C. Brown, Jim Creech, Matt McColm, Karen Spell, James Irwin, Johnny Grady jr, Michael Halford, O.D. Wilson, Bruce Frye, Tim Gilbert, Bill Morrison, Tommy Evans
written by Kitty Chalmers (= Albert Pyun), music by Kevin Bassinson, special makeup effects by Cannom Creations, visual effects by Fantasy II Film Effects

Cyborg

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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In the future, humankind has been pretty much ravaged by the plague, and the survivors are desperate to find a cure - not all survivors though, there are gangs of outlaws marauding the countryside who thrive in the lawlessness of the plague-stricken world.

Now a cure for the plague has been found though, and it's implanted into cyborg Pearl (Dayle Haddon) - who has one problem though, she needs to get the cure to Atlanta, and her path leads through a region controlled by villain Fender (Vincent Klyn) and his gang of pillagers, and Fender doesn't want the plague to be cured. Pearl makes the acquaintance of Gibson (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a slinger (= a person who gets people through the wastelands safely) whom she tries to hire, but before she can she's captured by Fender and company. Nady (Deborah Richter) wants to save Pearl, but being a petite woman with only marginal fight skills, she's really not much of a match, so she tries to hire Gibson - but Gibson's not really interested in being a do-gooder, only in killing Fender, who back in the day has killed his family. So the two travel to cut off Fender, who's on his way to Atlanta to take the city with Pearl's (involuntary) help, but there are many dangers along the way. And even once they've met up with Fender and company, they're grossly outnumbered and outmatched ...

 

Now ok, if you plan to watch a Cannon-produced Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi vehicle, chances are you're not expecting an artistic statement about the deeper questions of humankind but a pulpy action flick with a simplistic plot and much action and violcence along the way - and that essentially is what Cyborg is ... and it's pretty good at it, too, as director Albert Pyun puts in more than just a hack job, instead making this feel like a post-apocalyptic nihilistic western, heavy on atmosphere, using only certain layers of the colour spectrum and bringing the thing alive with interesting camera work unusual angles and the like, and he gives Van Damme, whose acting range is rather limited, a role he can actually fill - all of which make this actually a very decent genre movie.

 

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