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| The Cannon Group | Release Date: April 7, 1989 |
Starring:
Alex Daniels, Blaise Loong, Dayle Haddon, Deborah Richter, Haley Peterson, Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ralf Moeller, Terrie Batson, Vincent Klyn
Summary:
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
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Director Albert Pyun also knows his B-movie tricks -- catchy camera work, slow motion, minimal dialogue and even some dime-store Christ imagery. It's a shame he didn't have a better script. [07 Apr 1989, p.5]
Although director Albert Pyun brings out nothing but the worst in the mercifully brief recitations of dialogue, he does know how to stage and pile up effectively brutal action sequences till you feel as though you've been through four world wars in under 85 minutes. It's desensitizing violence in all its glory: You may cheer during the rousing slugfests, then hate yourself afterward. [07 Apr 1989, p.12]
Movies like this work if they're able to maintain a high level of energy and invention, as the Mad Max movies do. They do not work when they lower their guard and let us see the reality, which is that several strangely garbed actors feel vaguely embarrassed while wearing bizarre costumes and reciting unspeakable lines.
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Cyborg is cyboring. [07 Apr 1989, p.34]
Pyun obviously enjoys filming Armageddon, and Cyborg is visually interesting even at its most preposterous. Everything is in ruins, with enough scenes in burnt-out factories to give new meaning to the term "loft living." Still, the plot is hopelessly confused, there are cuts that don't match and scenes that move suddenly from full sun to late afternoon. [07 Apr 1989, p.B]
Apr 7, 2023
Very boring movie its just alot of scenes of people walking in the woods, i guess the action was okay but to get to that you have to watch the other boring parts
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