- Actors: Billy Drago, Elias Koteas
- Directors: Michael Schroeder
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: 3 Oct 2006
- Run Time: 99 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000GRUMSC
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 55,992 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Terminator"/"Blade Runner" rip-offs don't come much better than this. Although it was released in 1993, this is something of a last hurrah for eighties low budget post-apocalyptic actioners, bursting at the seams with freaky details and wonderfully cast.
Elias Coteas, of all people, is the ostensible "action hero" in this one. Angelina Jolie is his android pal who kickboxes the chins of anyone who gets in their way. The two of them go on the run from (you know where this is going) The Corporation, through an imaginatively and vividly sketched-in low budget future cityscape. Billy Drago is after them. He doesn't want to take the job at first because his latest facelift hasn't quite set yet. But he does, and worries his way through his every fight scene, pleading with Anglelina not to kickbox him in the face.
Elias and Angelina are guided through this eighties pop video dystopia by a mysterious figure who at first only ever appears to them via TV screens, and even then with his face obscured. But his voice... It's Jack Palance!
Director Michael Schroeder really pulls the rabbit out of the hat with this movie. But before you go rushing out to buy his complete works, remember that he also directed "Cyborg 3", one of the sorriest messes in straight-to-video history.
Elias Coteas, of all people, is the ostensible "action hero" in this one. Angelina Jolie is his android pal who kickboxes the chins of anyone who gets in their way. The two of them go on the run from (you know where this is going) The Corporation, through an imaginatively and vividly sketched-in low budget future cityscape. Billy Drago is after them. He doesn't want to take the job at first because his latest facelift hasn't quite set yet. But he does, and worries his way through his every fight scene, pleading with Anglelina not to kickbox him in the face.
Elias and Angelina are guided through this eighties pop video dystopia by a mysterious figure who at first only ever appears to them via TV screens, and even then with his face obscured. But his voice... It's Jack Palance!
Director Michael Schroeder really pulls the rabbit out of the hat with this movie. But before you go rushing out to buy his complete works, remember that he also directed "Cyborg 3", one of the sorriest messes in straight-to-video history.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
One of Angelina Jolie's early performances taking advantage of her merits of course, this is a ripe action film with all the right elements inherited from Blade Runner but of course with less class. But this film is a true classic of the Cyborg genre, of course it has it's flaws but that is the beauty of this type of film. We accept this film for what it is and we enjoy the values it represents. If you are looking for high art then you aren't looking for this film, but you will be entertained if you have an open mind.
The Cyborg series of films (Cyborg and Cyborg 3: The Recycler) are amazing because they reference each other but are completely different films with completely different production values and this only adds to the interest.
The Cyborg series of films (Cyborg and Cyborg 3: The Recycler) are amazing because they reference each other but are completely different films with completely different production values and this only adds to the interest.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is the second instalment in the Cyborg trilogy. This time we see Angelina Jolie in her first role, as the sexy cyborg Cash. The story begins with Pinwheel Robotics (USA) having developed a new liquid explosive, Glass Shadow, injecting it into the sexy Cash (Jolie) to take down Japan competitors Kobiashi Electronics. Problems occur when Cash finds out she was made to be destroyed, she’s not best pleased to say the least. So aided by her combat instructor, Colt (Koteas), and a television (Jack Palance), she decides she is going to escape. This is when the chase begins, Pinwheel employ a ‘tapper’ known as Bench (Drago) to hunt down, and capture the two escapee’s. But the man in charge at Pinwheel seems to have his own agenda, and has a cyborg, of Japanese creation, to hunt down Cash and Colt. The two lovers soon find themselves in a race to flee the good ‘ol US of A and make it to the free isle of Mumbasa. Plots thicken, and tension runs high as the story unfolds, and you keep asking yourself... how does Mercy (Palance) do that when the TV isn't even plugged in?
Fans of the first, Jean-Claude Van Damme action fest, cyborg, may find themselves scratching their heads and thinking ‘this has nothing to do with the first one’ well you don’t know how correct you are. The script was originally written for a Master’s of the Universe sequel, but when it was decided that people didn’t want Dolph Lundgren prancing around with long blonde hair sporting a tea towel round his waist, they changed it to Cyborg 2: The Glass Shadow.
All-in-all it’s an enjoyable film, by far not the most clever, but if you’re a fan of Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted, Tomb Raider 1&2), Elias Koteas (Collateral Damage, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), or Jack Palance (City Slickers, Tango & Cash) or you just like sci-fi films in general then give this one a chance.
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