Cyborg 1989
Directed by Albert Pyun · 86 mins · 1,716 views
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Not 100% sure but I think this was the first JCVD movie I had seen as a kid. Now you can call it childhood-nostalgia or blame my fondness for post-apocalyptic B-Action movies, but I think this movie still rocks. Low-budget for sure, but director Albert Pyun had a real talent making the most put of every Dollar. For what it is, I think the movie looks pretty great. Since I only ever saw the movie on VHS, the image quality on the Scream Factor Blu-ray really impressed me. Cyborg was one of those movies I felt a little nervous returning to after many years, maybe even decades, but I’m very happy to say this still holds up for me. Is…
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If you enjoy this review, check out my book RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN. I reviewed every one of Albert Pyun’s films and interviewed some of his closest collaborators. The Director’s Cut of CYBORG is all about an extreme shift in tone. The theatrical release is an 80s post-apocalyptic actioner about delivering a cure to save the world. It’s colourful, wooden and goofy. The Director’s Cut is a hopeless road movie where the heroes are hunted down by a group of Satan worshippers. The structure is the same in both, but in Pyun’s original vision, there’s a sense of hopelessness to it all. The real tone shifter is a radically different score by Jim Saad and Tony Riparetti.…
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don’t know if i’ll ever unravel the mysteries behind how pyun is able to light scenes…half of van damme’s face in red and the other half natural and soft with candles right behind him and bright blue shining from a door in the background, an underground purple-blue water fight, the hot sun like a golden glaze over van damme’s cheekbones, a person in a memory-dream-nightmare lit up in pale white and nothing but empty black behind them, rooms where sunlight streams in even though it’s nighttime… it’s so unnatural that you almost have to believe it IS natural, but…not natural to earth, because otherwise…how? it has to have been elaborately and precisely staged like all great “perfect fleeting moment” photographs…
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i feel insane every time i watch this, it’s so bleak and heartfelt and just this scream of helpless pain out into an empty parking lot void, and yeah it’s dressed up in bad actors with guitar names and is incredibly nerdy and juvenile but it never fails to rock me to my core the way pyun creates these horrific fantasy worlds for the sole purpose of 1. looking badass and 2. showcasing the beauty and resilience of the human spirit !!??… and then all the reviews are like “lol this is so dumb and boring”. but we’re stuck in a plagued hellworld and crying out for literally anyone to be our jean claude, who’s stupid now??
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RIP albert pyun, a post-apocalyptic cyber-auteur. he was a true artist; i’m so thankful for his work.
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Ultra cheap post apocalyptic guff from Cannon Group and director Albert Pyun. The wafer thin plot has something to do with a cyborg carrying some information relating to a cure for plague ridden humanity. She’s kidnapped by pro surfer Vincent Klyn and his motley crew of bad guys, so its up to Jean-Claude Van Damme to rescue her and save the day. He also has some dispute with the baddies himself, which is painstakingly told in numerous flashbacks that serve to pad out the narrative. The plot is often lost under the frequent action scenes, which would be a good thing if the action scenes weren’t so dry. Outside of a scene that sees Van Damme doing the splits above…
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“I like the misery” Me too. Perhaps the most traditional dystopian action mess that doesn’t even succeed in creating a memorable enough experience. Everything the movie presents visually offers a fun experience, but otherwise, it’s such a formulaic slugfest that I felt the harsh world grabbing hold of me and kicking me in the head in slow motion. Of course, a movie with Van Damme doing splits is always a safe choice for a night when you want to take life a little easier, and at the same time, it also elevated the star’s value when the film was released. The entertainment level, however, is quite low, as everything is straightforward, monotonous love for the action genre. This is a…
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On my deathbed, not unlike Charles Foster Kane, inside the chambers of my own personal Xanadu, I will breathe my last breath as my arm falls slack to the floor and from my hand will drop a worn VHS copy of Albert Pyun’s 1989 classic that showed us a future of pandemics, artificial intelligence, and sigma males. The camera will close-up on my lips and I will whisper that enigmatic word: Cyborg.
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(Pardon this interruption from my regular programming for something a little schlocky) A plague sweeps across the remains of a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk world, and only one man can stop a band of pirates from stealing away the one chance they have for hope. “I’ll take you to Atlanta, and you’ll give *me* the cure. And if you don’t, I’ll give you the horror show.” I was prepared for Cyborg to be bad … real bad! And while it is not good it ended up being a cheesy fun time, that I would categorize as Schlock Lite. (Quick Hits) … Spoilers: – Some surprisingly good production design went into this futuristic setting. Apparently, they took advantage of a couple of failed…
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Une pandémie ça se règle à coups de tatanes
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Bring back badass opening monologues, sinister music themes and villains with cool shades!
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The man has a heart.
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MMister Klow 8 月 16, 2026
This movie makes no sense. The costumes are bad. There are bad wigs. There are shots where the camera is completely out of focus. Then suddenly there is great photography. Then back to out of focus shots. But I loved it.
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Abysmal dogshit
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Got a new DVD action set at the G-DUB and this was the first on the 8 movies, disc 1… i’ve seen this movie a lot, just recently actually… but it’s one of those movies you can’t pass up, every rewatch makes it better. They don’t make em like this any more Son… and it’s a shame. Classic. “…and if you don’t, i’ll give you the horror show.” ~Fender 📼 📀
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Albert Pyun does not miss with me. Amazing special effects, and set design. Such great action.
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Plenty of misery to enjoy. I like this world! It’s weak in every way but a little bit of schlocky fun too!
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Whips ass. An insane amount of screaming. Goons shamble around like deranged videogame NPCs. Peak Pyun set design and post apocalyptic vibes. Just an extremely cool movie with again, and I cannot under emphasize this, an ABSURD about of angry manyelling
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Sure the worldbuilding is shallow, the dialogue is sparse, and fight scenes go on too long, but this movie is gorgeous to look at and Pyun’s direction is fucking impeccable.
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1: main villain speaks like orcs from Warcraft: Orcs & Humans 2: JCVD accidentally gouged out a guy’s eye. that’s all I can say about this
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Imaginez un film des années 80 qui s’appelle Cyborg avec Jean-Claude Van Damme en acteur principal qui a coûté 500 000 $. Et oui, c’est absolument génial et c’est super cool. Étonnamment, beaucoup de décors ont beaucoup de gueule. Et sérieux, c’est un bon divertissement.
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Masterpiece
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Albert Pyun, the master of doing a lot with a little. I’ll be real, on an objective level, this ain’t all that great. Its pacing is all over the place, it’s in so much of a rush to get to the next thing, that it never lets any scene or moment marinate. JCVD’s acting, while never award worthy, is particularly bad here. (except in the fight scenes, or scenes where he’s in physical pain, he rules in that type of…
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Canon Dystopie Trash. Teilweise dilettantisch geschnitten. Die praktischen Effekte sind manchmal ganz lustig. Und Ralf Möller ist auch dabei. Da machen sich im Wesentlichen ein paar Leute in Endzeitoutfits das Überleben schwer. Und mittendrin JC und seine Damsel in Distress. Aber die wird dann dogar auch hin und wieder aktiv. Wie so oft wird der Gegner gerne mal verschont, damit der Film nicht zu früh endet. Ein unterschwellig mitwaberner, nostalgischer Trash-Unterhaltungswert bringt aber noch auf 1,9 Sterne.
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Incredibly boring, if anything. The flashbacks are weird and confusing, there’s so many scenes where nothing happens, the fights are slow, the characters have nothing to offer, and the whole thing just feels like moving through quicksand.
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epic costume and set design draping a fallout style post-apocalypse battle of pillagers and murderers with an unexpected maturity in an overall badass spectacle. jcvd is crucified and penetrates a man with a sword by doing the splits between two oil tanks above him, all in the same film.
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This movie is bad. It felt like a real slog in places and at only 85 mins long thats saying something! Zero charm or smiles from the big man, acting is terrible from everyone involved, looks cheap and takes itself way too seriously….
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JJimmy_67 8 月 12, 2026
un des pires films que j’ai jamais vu. le scénario est ridicule on ne comprend absolument rien à la succession de l’histoire. les scènes de combats qui pourraient remonter un peu le film et bien l’enfonce encore plus, il n’y a aucune parade ni contre juste une succession de coups sans queue ni tête . les rares images de synthèse ont été faite par un enfant de 6 ans. A ne pas voir
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A Damme Pyuntastic movie offering a buffet of high-energy fights that are balanced out by dingy, memorable imagery: a little girl gripping barbed wire, a man crucified on a ship mast in front of the setting sun, a burning house adorned with bubbling keepsakes, and a silver knife against a pale sky to name my favorites. Vincent Klyn plays the perfect savage cornball to go up against Van Demme’s moody reflectivity which culminates in an incredible CQC Guns of the…
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SSeth 8 月 11, 2026
Workprint with commentary by Albert Pyun Wonderful commentary full Pyun wisdom and insane stories about JCVD.
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“The Searchers” by way of “Mad Max”. Too cheap and shoddily made to be good, but JCVD is trying.
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Not 100% sure but I think this was the first JCVD movie I had seen as a kid. Now you can call it childhood-nostalgia or blame my fondness for post-apocalyptic B-Action movies, but I think this movie still rocks. Low-budget for sure, but director Albert Pyun had a real talent making the most put of every Dollar. For what it is, I think the movie looks pretty great. Since I only ever saw the movie on VHS, the image quality…
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Ah yes, landlocked Atlanta. The perfect target for pirates! They’ll never see it coming.
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I knew the ending was going to be so stupid lmao. For the first time ever I didn’t have fun watching a Canon film.
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HHORBAHF 8 月 8, 2026
I used to love this as a kid, and I still love Pyun and JCVD, but I just cannot stand the character Nady. She irks me every single time she is on screen. I tried.
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RRegina77721 8 月 8, 2026
Maybe my favourite Van Damme film so far. Like I just love how visually it tells the story, like there’s barely any dialogue. It’s so bleak but so fun at the same time. Everyone has great hair. Just a great use of Van Damme aswell like some great splits action in this
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When I programmed a radio station in St. Louis, an ad agency friend called and for a favor. She had a French actor in town promoting a low budget karate flick and she couldn’t get anyone to agree to interview him. I told her bring him by and I’d put him on our morning show. The movie was Bloodsport and the actor was Jean Claude Van Damme. Following the interview, we had a great debate about the skills of Mike…
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Jjake 8 月 6, 2026
what a treat. this movie is bad, don’t get me wrong, but there is a momentum that draws from such varied sources. this is an amalgamation of a proposed sequel to Masters of the Universe and a fledgling Spider-Man project mashed into a weird cyberpunk post-apocalypse where everyone is named after guitar and synthesizer equipment. very in the vein of Zardoz, take of that what you will. I love movies like this.
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another one of those movies where the lore behind it is far more interesting than the actual movie itself, so pretty much one of those ones where you don’t need to ask what’s happening in this movie but rather what the actual fuck were they gonna do with the potential 1987 masters of the universe sequel?
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Pretty bad and that’s even by 1989 standards. Villain screams a lot, pretty annoying.
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Cyborg is a movie that has grown on me over the years, but while I will never rank it amongst my favorite Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, it is an easy Top 5 where Albert Pyun is concerned. And lets talk about Pyun… he conceived Cyborg as a way to salvage the investment Cannon had already made for their Masters of the Universe sequel, and their planned Spider-Man movie. That will never not impress me. For Chris the Brain’s full review, check out BulletproofAction.com! https://www.bulletproofaction.com/2026/08/05/bullet-points-cyborg-1989/
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idk how this has such a low rating when this is lowkey one of the more artful jcvd flicks.. the splits reveal is pure cinema!! and then they literally crucify him like he’s jean claude van christ! except he’s more powerful than jesus because he muscles his way out of his own crucifixion, which makes the scene 10x sexier and gayer than st sebastian’s martyrdom (the gay thing certainly isn’t helped by the fact that he previously put a woman’s…
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Awesome camerawork & editing in this, I enjoyed the score too. But It’s pretty much JVD kicking people through a wasteland while escorting a half-lady, half-wifi router. There’s little to no flowing dialogue, & theres a lot of unnecessary slow-motion stuff, but this is definitely a step up from Alien from LA by the same director that came out a year before.
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🅡🅔🅥🅘🅔🅦 Cyborg 1989 ★★★★☆ Cyborg embraces its low-budget and transforms into something surprisingly entertaining. It doesn’t rely on a complex narrative, the film thrives on atmosphere, gritty visuals, and a relentless post-apocalyptic aesthetic that gives it a unique identity. It’s unapologetically a product of its budget, wearing its B-movie style with pride while delivering exactly the kind of action fans of cult cinema expect. Jean-Claude Van Damme carries the film with undeniable screen presence. His physical performance does much of…
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Ich weiß, der Streifen hat so seine Liebhaber, und ich sehe auch durchaus, warum, und gönne ihm jeden einzelnen davon, aber meine Güte, wie schafft der das denn bitte, bei so kurzer Laufzeit noch so langatmig zu sein? Er hat grundsätzlich seinen Charme und seine Momente, und in der richtigen Stimmung kann vieles davon Spaß machen, aber diese generische Schrottmusik ist wirklich zum fürchten und zieht viele Szenen in den Schmutz. Schlussendlich bin ich hin und her gerissen. Das ist alles weit weg von einem temporeichen, starken Film, und dennoch kein Totalausfall.
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Maybe $10 less in the budget and this would have been a pretty good late period MST3k episode
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his surrogate family broken apart, the love of his life kidnapped, a cure that could save everyone in the hands of the man who caused him nothing but pain. a thunder storm deluging the fire lit showdown, his present and past clash through a sequence of high kicks, punches, and grunts. is jcvd jesus? maybe, but that’s a question for another day… jokes aside, almost unmatched for me in terms of atmosphere. the soundtrack is gritty but in a kind…
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A ambientação e a estética cyberpunk foram os maiores acertos desse filme. Mas infelizmente, as cenas de ação são meio fracas,mas não deixa de ser um filme bem nostálgico e que vale muito a pena ser reassistido.
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Albert Pyun’s Cyborg is a fascinating mess, a film that should not work on any level yet manages to stumble into entertainment through sheer persistence. It is a low-grade showcase for Jean-Claude Van Damme’s impressive kickboxing skills, wrapped in a story that was assembled from spare parts and wishful thinking. The acting rarely rises above serviceable, the world-building is threadbare even by post-apocalyptic standards, and the narrative coherence is… negotiable. Still, there is something undeniably watchable about it. If you…
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Some filmmakers were born at the wrong time or perhaps ahead of their time. Albert Pyun didn’t pioneer cyberpunk but the micro-auteur’s passion was undeniable despite budgets never accommodating his vision. A Spider-Man adaptation and sequel to Masters of the Universe fell apart for Cannon so the director was hired to salvage sets, wardrobe, and money already allocated. The result is Jean-Claude Van Damme, shellshocked after the heights of Bloodsport, hunting marauders responsible for his family’s murder down an Eastern…
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This has some good atmosphere and some nice costuming. And while I generally enjoy watching JCVD, he usually doesn’t do much for me lookswise, but damn! did I find him particularly attractive in this movie. Sci-Fix52 2025 Progress: 3/52 #7. Watch a 1980s Sci-Fi film. (late)
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Un expert en arts martiaux traque un tueur dans une décharge urbaine futuriste infestée par la peste. Van Damme joue à Mad Max, karaté en plus, dans ce film d’action postapocalyptique. Il incarne un mercenaire qui doit retrouver un cyborg féminin qui détient la recette d’un remède qui permettrait d’enrayer la peste, revenue dans ce Nouveau Monde. Le scénario est assez conventionnel et malheureusement, il escamote même la portion plus intéressante de science-fiction avec la cyborg pour en faire une…
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Like the four (!) other Pyun films I’ve seen, there’s some genuinely interesting and unique stuff here, particularly in the atmosphere and some of the editing, buried under a mound of uninspired writing, overemphasized action scenes and general schlock. But also JCVD literally survives being crucified because of being so strong and manly so like… Interesting theology too.
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Watched in VHS – Cannon video Albert Pyun’s Cyborg stands as a masterclass in imaginative filmmaking on a shoestring budget. Despite its modest production constraints, Pyun constructs a visceral post-apocalyptic aesthetic that feels monumental. A wasteland of towering scaffolding, neon-soaked visuals, and brutal set design that punches and resonates with his great soundtrack far above its weight. Jean-Claude Van Damme becomes an unlikely icon, a blank canvas for Pyun’s dystopian vision, while the film’s stark compositions and striking practical effects…
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Esta peli tiene más pros que contras. El primero es la Cannon: con su sello ya sabes que te lo vas a pasar bien. Me encanta que el prota no sea intocable y que reciba palos. Los efectos de los puñetazos son una fantasía animada, ¡y qué bien sudan y gimotean todos! Un entretenimiento con el que pasar un buen rato.
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The amazing Turbo Kid has films like this pumping through its veins. It looks damn good for a crappy Cannon fest with a heap of sweet shonky rubber effects and a great dummy drop to boot. Good old Albert Pyun, probably his Magnus opus, or maybe Sword and the Sorcerer is? He wanted to release this in black and white, the man is a genius! It would have been amazinger! Like when they did Fury Road in Black and Chrome!…
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I had this tagged as haven seen it before, but to be completly honest, I did not remember it at all…and that was maybe for a good reason. This is from the 80s and 90s the worst Van Damme movie…and thats already saying something. Couldnt they have commed up with something better from a storyline…its also dirt cheap…
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No idea why every main character is named after musical instruments. Fender Tremelo sounds like one of these new country artists that pop up every couple of years.
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I feel like Fender and Gibson could have worked out their differences in a court of law.
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Occasional cool moments and cool shots constantly interrupted by an unmistakable stench of awful, low budget filmmaking. theymostlycomeoutatnight.podbean.com/e/episode-351-cyborg-1989/
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This rewatch inspired by my recent viewing of Pyun’s superior picture Nemesis. I have intense traumatic childhood memories of the shots where Pearl Prophet (excellent Pynchonesque character name, BTW) exposes the back of her cybernetic head and when the henchman wearing a catcher’s chest protector falls down an elevator shaft. There’s not much else to say about this movie aside from that it was a bold attempt at creating a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world with what must have been an extremely…
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definitely would recommend being Pyun-pilled if you’re going to watch this. Kind of like a Vaporwave Van Damme movie, everything is at 75% speed. Has lots of Pyun’s excellent completely bewildering sense of geography. I enjoyed it, but I would put this at the lower end of the prime Van Dammes if you’re coming at it from that. If you’re coming at it from Pyunland, go ahead, you’ll love it!
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Holy shit was this a trashy time The mop haircut in the flashbacks was hilarious 😭 Brings a whole new meaning to JCvd Plot summary: Gibson and fender bring their guitars from Hoboken to Atlanta
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Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this post apocalyptic world where he’s a mercenary protecting a cyborg carrying “the cure” to the plague, and evil gang of pirates lead by their ruthless leader Fender Tremolo, doesn’t want the cure to be found
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If you were to think to yourself “this is just another piece of shit Cannon movie,” you would be correct. The last 10 to 15 minutes is nothing but inarticulate grunting.
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Rriggedpig 7 月 17, 2026
Mostly this made me want to watch the apparently rough director’s cut because you can feel how much is missing from this movie. There’s a plague that we never see a victim of, we get flashbacks twice, none of Pyun’s great needle drops, there’s so little of the cyborg and so much revenge seeking that THIS movie should’ve been called nemesis and nemesis should have been called cyborg. Still full of gorgeous shots and lighting, even if it’s very apparent that everything was shot in North Carolina.
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This is the kinda GoodBad movie I can really sink my teeth into; I should double feature this with Future War sometime. Come for JCVD’s hairdos, stay for an actress removing her wig to reveal a different actress underneath.
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i had fun screaming at the television and yanking on my hair from being so goddamn baffled at everything that was happening
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Found a home recording of this, complete with commercials, in a bin of VHS tapes at an auction. Baffling movie. The same three or four scenes get repeatedly flashed back to. It is completely incomprehensible. I enjoyed the 1992 commercials more.
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I decided a while back my ratings here would be based purely on how much I liked a film rather than any psuedo-objective assessments of “quality”, whatever that means. I’m tempted to break that rule for Cyborg because it’s true bottom-of-the-barrel stuff: tepid, garish, and half-assed on nearly every level. Everyone sleepwalks through it but the costume designer, 95% of the dialogue is grunting, there’s lots of repetitive editing just to drag things out to feature length, and the titular…
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Dive into a gritty post-apocalyptic world with this action-packed film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a mercenary on a mission. Despite its low-budget constraints, the movie delivers intense action and a bleak atmosphere. While character development is sparse, fans of dystopian cinema may find its charm irresistible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31H7wBuwAU
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Holy shit the crucifixion sequence. That’s capital F Filmmaking. How come this JCVD B-movie has better lighting than the majority of modern Hollywood films we’ve truly lost respect for the craft.
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Great low budget post apocalyptic sci-fi film that could’ve been a Hokuto No Ken (Fist of the North Star) adaption with a few adjustments. Van Damme was great as usual as the tough but sensitive hero, and the villain Fender is one of the most terrifying to ever hit the screen. Highly recommended. How I watched it: Blu-ray release by 88 Films
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for a film called CYBORG, the plot and action really don’t have much to do with cyborgs.
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A truly perfect film despite the fact that Van Damme ***spoilers*** isn’t the cyborg????? His brooding quiet tough guy act successfully disguises the fact that he truly does not speak English. Mad Max meets the Terminator but with more gratuitous nudity. Also the hero’s name is Gibson Rickenbacker and the villain’s name is Fender Tremolo lol.
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A literal fever dream- fun, weird, and you finish more confused than you started lol
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It’s been well over 20 years since I watched this. Not as good as I remember but still a decent 80’s Van Damme flick.
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Rrohit_uikey 7 月 9, 2026
Easly the worst van Damme movie I ever watched.
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Cool looking setting but the dialogue is so comical lol. That said, Fender Tremolo has always been one of the slickest looking villains that I can remember with an intensity to match.
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Perhaps JCVD’s deepest splits ever was the one he did just trying to hold this disjointed script together. Also he gets crucified at one point and I really wanted someone in the movie to call him Jesus Christ Van Damme.
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Has no right being as fun as it is I can’t say it’s arguably a great movie but for a nihilistic dystopian sci fi movie it’s pretty damn good. For a movie that was originally supposed to be a masters of the universe sequel and a spider man movie but due to overspending the sets and costumes were reused to create this. For one I really love the action and fight choreography some creative camera work is presenr throughout this.…
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VANDAMMATHON PART 3 So much yelling. AAAAAAH! AAAAAH! AAAAAH! AAAAAAH! Poorly directed, really poorly edited (not Pyun’s fault), but not without its great moments, and not without its charms. This was definitely a big inspiration for Future War starring Jean-Claude Gosh Darn, right? #3115 (51%) on my Flickchart – #30 of 65 for the year 1989 – #6 of 14 on my JCVD chart (below BLOODSPORT, EXPENDABLES 2, HARD TARGET, BLACK EAGLE, and STREET FIGHTER)
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Ffushigi 7 月 4, 2026
Gibson Rickenbacker is the messiah of the Pyuniverse. “it’s strange but I feel he’s the real cure for this world.”
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Visually striking for a late ’80s action flick, but it lacks any real substance and a bit too gratuitous for my taste.
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This movie is completely ridiculous. I love Van Damme movies but tell me why the villain Fender is yelling every 5 seconds and is flexing with his arms down in the final fight. How are we supposed to fight if our arms are down and our head is out? Not only that but he gets side kicked onto a hook. That makes zero sense you would have to get lifted onto it not pushed into it. Also why does Van Damme have a knife shoe, that shows up once?
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No diria que es una mala película, me parece que el término correcto seria PELICULA BARATA. Genero de accion ciertamente no es del que mas consuma, aqui la accion es lo único medio decente…creo. En fin no hay mucho que decir, hay un monton de planos innecesarios, sin ellos la peli duraria menos de una hora. Lo único atractivo de la peli seria van dame. El villano es….RARO. Y pues nada una pelicula para ver con tu papa si es fanático de van dame y despues olvidarla.
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The parts of this that ruled just barely couldn’t make up for the parts of it that didn’t
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atlanta mentioned! obvious butcher job i feel sympathetic to purely off how haunting the vibes still are post-hack and the endearment other ppl have. albert pyun i want to believe….
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If you just want pure nostalgic action and great characters with charisma you would love this movie! The story is very bad and not to mention the acting however I can watch this movie all over again.
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🎬 Cyborg Scores: Story / Plot: 2 / 10 Characters: 2 / 10 Acting: 2 / 10 Direction & Vision: 5 / 10 Emotional Impact: 1 / 10 Pacing & Structure: 8 / 10 Cinematography & Visuals: 7 / 10 Sound & Music: 3 / 10 Originality & Creativity: 8 / 10 Satisfying Ending: 3 / 10 ⭐ Average Score: 4.1 / 10 Summary: In a post-apocalyptic future, a lone fighter escorts a cyborg carrying a cure for a deadly plague across dangerous wastelands while…
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Écouté en 2023 Cyborg Je dois avoir écouté ce film une dizaine de fois dans ma vie. Je ne me tannerai jamais. J’adore l’ambiance apocalyptique, le look des méchants, la violence brute et les paysages. Van Damme est encore une fois à son meilleur. L’action ne manque pas. J’ai toujours pensé jusqu’à cette dernière écoute que le méchant principal était un cyborg. Je pensais cela à cause de ses yeux bleus et qu’il a une voix rauque comme un cyborg.…
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everyone spends the entire movie chasing one person across a dying world i honestly enjoyed the empty landscapes more than most of the fights
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“Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I LIKE THIS WORLD!” Essentially Cannon’s last gasp, this is one of the most-rented titles of my childhood, and still packs a serious wallop against all expectations, considering that it was salvaged from an aborted “Masters of The Universe” sequel AND a “Spider-Man” (!) project. The fight scenes — the skirmish in the factory, the foot chase through the marsh, the final rain-swept battle — are just kinetic. I…
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I am not sure I remember the opening words of “Cyborg” exactly, but I believe they were, “After the plague, things really got bad.” I do remember laughing heartily at that point, about 30 seconds into the movie. Few genres amuse me more than post-apocalyptic fantasies about supermen fighting for survival. “Cyborg” is one of the funniest examples of this category, which crosses “Escape from New York” with “The Road Warrior” but cheats on the budget. The movie takes place…
- Synopsis
- A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
- Director
- Albert Pyun
- Writer
- Albert Pyun
- Studio
- The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 86 mins
- Netherlands07 Apr 1989
- USA07 Apr 1989
- Spain02 Jun 1989
- France07 Jun 1989
- Germany22 Jun 1989
- Brazil21 Jul 1989
- Australia27 Jul 1989
- Japan24 Mar 1990
- Denmark07 Apr 1989
- South Korea07 May 2002
- Czechia12 Apr 2006
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