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Kitty Chalmers (written by)
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Release Date:
7 April 1989 (USA) more
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He's the First Hero of the 21st Century...And He's Our Only Hope.
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A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future. full summary | full synopsis
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Better than usual for Albert Pyun, but... more (92 total)
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Cast

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Jean-Claude Van Damme ... Gibson Rickenbacker
Deborah Richter ... Nady Simmons
Vincent Klyn ... Fender Tremolo

Alex Daniels ... Marshall Strat
Dayle Haddon ... Pearl Prophet
Blaise Loong ... Furman Vux / Pirate / Bandit

Ralf Moeller ... Brick Bardo (as Rolf Muller)
Haley Peterson ... Haley

Terrie Batson ... Mary
Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney ... Tytus / Pirate / Bandit
Janice Graser ... Vorg
Robert Pentz ... Base / Pirate / Bandit
Sharon K. Tew ... Prather / Pirate / Bandit
Chuck Allen ... Vondo / Pirate / Bandit
Stefanos Miltsakakis ... Xylo / Pirate / Bandit
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Also Known As:
Masters of the Universe 2 (USA) (TV title)
Masters of the Universe 2: Cyborg (USA) (TV title)
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Runtime:
86 min | Germany:59 min (VHS version) (heavily cut)
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Germany:16 (heavily cut) | West Germany:18 (DVD rating) (JK/SPIO) | West Germany:18 (original rating) (cut) | Iceland:16 | Finland:(Banned) (1989) | Finland:K-18 (2001) (uncut) | Finland:K-18 (1990) (cut) | Denmark:15 | Australia:M (DVD re-rating) | Australia:R (original rating) | Brazil:16 | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:15 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | France:-12 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

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Jean-Claude Van Damme accidentally wounded Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney's eye during a scene where they fought with swords, causing him to permanently lose vision out of that eye. He took Van Damme to court, eventually winning a settlement. more
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Continuity: In the last fight, the bad guy grabs the girl's hair with one hand. In the next shot he is holding her with his other hand. more
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Willy: Go to hell!
Fender Tremolo: Been there.
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Referenced in A Tale of Two Titans (2004) (V) more

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Better than usual for Albert Pyun, but..., 22 October 2004
Author: aloep from Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

Produced in the dying years of Cannon films, directed by Albert Pyun, starring an early Van Damme claiming to be "the first hero of the 21st century", claiming to be a "post apocalyptic battle" and with the title "Cyborg", somehow I don't think it will bring many to a state of disbelief when I announce that it's a very poor film. Cheap and tacky in every area, unless you're a huge fan of Van Damme it really should be avoided.

For Albert Pyun in the 80's and early 90's, a "post apocalyptic" movie was just an excuse to avoid any expense for sets and have a bunch of goons in ragged clothes running around large areas of open land or empty buildings. The "post apocalyptic" world Cyborg takes place in was filmed in North Carolina and looks like…uh…North Carolina.

There is action, but it's all rather dull and extremely forgettable and the overly dramatic musical score which accompanies it is extremely irritating. Plus there's no buildup to them, just randomly thrown together which throws away any excitement they may have had. On the plus side, the fights aren't half as bad as those I've seen in later Albert Pyun movies but Van Damme has done a lot better.

As far as acting goes, you'll get zero. Not that you'd expect award winning performances in a movie like this, but still, Van Damme has absolutely minimal dialogue and could pass off for somebody who doesn't speak any English simply being told to speak his lines phonetically. He is that poor, but at least it's evidence enough that he has tried in later movies. I do find many of his movies entertaining, this isn't one of them. The villains are the complete opposite, and they overact and make embarrassing howling and screaming when fighting Van Damme without being remotely scary in the least. Although it certainly doesn't say much for the state of humanity if the world was to be under threat for a second from these clowns!

The post apocalyptic genre is generally one of the weakest in the field of B-movies with the likes of Steel Frontier being one of the few exceptions and this is just about as poor as it gets. Not good enough to be worth watching or not even bad enough to be funny. At best it's tedious and dull so unless you're a huge fan of Van Damme I recommend you to stay away. On the plus side, it remains the best film by schlock director Albert Pyun I've seen to date but that's probably even more of a reason to avoid it than anything else.

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