Cyborg

Year of release : 1989


Run time : 1h26m


Genre : Action / Cyberpunk / Martial Arts


Cast : Jean-Claude Van Damme



After the plague rendered the population almost extinct, a small group of scientists and doctors from Atlanta, work on a cure. They need the information stored into Pearl Prophet, a cyborg created to transport the information stored in a computer in New York.

On her way to Atlanta, her bodyguard is k1lled by the pirates who like the world just as it is,because they rule it . Her bodyguard tells her to find a 'slinger' who can take her to Atlanta safely.

She does find one, Gibson Rickenbacker, but he is overpowered by the pirates, and they take her.


The gang of pirates led by the crazy Fender, love to k1ll people for fun.


Gibson dreams about how he met the woman he tried to help take her siblings to safety, staying with them when they found a home. It didn't take long and Fender and his pirates found them, k1lling them, and taking one of the younger siblings, the girl, who he made k1ll her siblings, with them.


Gibson ends up helping another woman, who convinces him to go after Fender, to help the cyborg get to Atlanta. The cyborg doesn't want to be helped.


The movie was ridiculous, the plot is bad, the lead keeps on reminiscing about the last people he helped and ended up staying with! They show us the same scene twice throughout the movie!

In the past scenes he wears this long wig, with his hair always on his face, maybe to hide the fact it was a wig.

The characters give us exposition by telling us what we need to know in their conversations!

The girl made by the pirates to k1ll her family is brainwashed in the present, and doesn't lift a finger to help Gibson when they crucify him.

The girl he ends up helping takes her clothes off in front of him right away, and stays covered in a blanket after taking a bath,trying to seduce him, but he's not having it.

The cyborg has no powers, no knowledge, to strength! She is dumb, as she tells the pirate right away that she carries precious information!

The punching sound effects are ridiculously loud.


The movie was edited weird, I personally don't like it when they keep on showing us the same move of a fight from different angles in slow motion. Sometimes it looks like the characters teleport from place to place.

The movie was so bad, it made me laugh!


The acting was bad, their faces have no expression, show no emotions, they look mostly like they recited their lines like the news anchors.


The soundtrack was bad.


The visual effects look cartoonish but aren't bad.


The martial arts cyberpunk movie has 2 sequels, Cyborg, released in 1993, with Angelina Jolie,which has nothing to do with this one, and Cyborg 3 : The Recycler,from 1994.


The movie was apparently made with only 500.000 dollars in 23 days, and grossed around 10 million dollars!

The movie received negative reviews.


Apparently the characters' names are references to musical instruments!


Allegedly, one of the actors who play the pirates lost an eye when Van Damme accidentally stuck the prop knife in it in a scene!


Upon releasing the movie home video, the production company released a one shot comic book based on it!


You can watch the movie here, for free : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8p4viw


Rating : The HORROR, THE HORROR!