#Vincent Klyn

[camyfilms]

POINT BREAK 1991

You're a real blue flame special, aren't you, son? Young, dumb and full of come, I know. What I don't know is how you got assigned here. Guess we must just have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh?

[2ndaryprotocol]

Albert Pyun’s sci-fi shoot ‘em up ‘Nemesis’ stormed theaters this week 30 years ago. 🤖🕶️🔥

“𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎'𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜: ‘𝙸𝚝 𝚙𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗.’”

[lamazmorradelandroide]

“Escuchamos que los últimos científicos estaban trabajando en una cura que terminaría con la plaga y restauraría el mundo. ¿Restaurarlo? ¿Por qué? ¡Me gusta la muerte! ¡Me gusta la miseria! ¡Me gusta este mundo!” - Fender Tremolo, Cyborg (1989)

[actionflickchick]

Cyborg (1989): Lots of Questions, Not Much Cyborg

One of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s earliest films, Cyborg features splits, kicks, and staring contests. A little known skill of Van Damme’s, he sometimes challenges the enemy to a staring contest, and sometimes he stares off into the void as if he’s taking on something/someone no one else can see. Good work! (more…) “”

[adamwatchesmovies]

Cyborg (1989)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

With a title like Cyborg and Jean-Claude Van Damme as the star, you’d expect this film to be a Terminator knockoff. Actually, it’s aping George Miller’s Mad Max series. Before you get excited and dig through bins of VHS tapes to find this one, know that it’s extremely dull. Only a few brief moments of unintentional hilarity will keep you from dozing off.

In the future, a plague crippled civilization. New York City is a wasteland patrolled by leather-clad lunatics who have embraced the downfall of society. Gibson Rickenbacker (Van Damme) happens upon Pearl Prophet (Dayle Haddon), a cybernetically enhanced woman sent to retrieve data from the remains of the Big Apple and bring critical information to the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. He decides to help the cyborg fulfill her mission while the vicious Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) is determined to keep her for himself.

I hate to come down on a film’s premise. Without it, there’s no movie, but this plot is doomed. I can buy that internet connections and phone lines are down, that someone would have to physically go to New York and retrieve the data the Center for Disease Control requires but why does it need to be transported via mechanical bits in someone's skull? I’d just put the data on a floppy disk or some kind of futuristic tech. At the very least they could’ve given Pearl some weapons or means to defend herself. If the CDC isn’t desperate enough to send someone with a pad of paper and a pencil, surely they can spare an escort mission or a baseball bat with some nails in it to ensure the mission's success. Not that finding a cure for the disease would do anything. It’s not like the Lord Humongous wannabe would suddenly become a rational man once people stopped falling over dead from gooey sores (we see exactly one person that’s infected, leading me to believe everybody else is immune). Newsflash for you: we didn’t find a cure for the Black Plague in the Middle ages… it just ran out of people to infect! Moving on.

Cyborg doesn’t really feel like a Mad Max wannabe. It’s like a clone of a clone of a clone. For one, it doesn’t feature any exciting car chases. Instead, Van Damme receives plenty of opportunities to perform his trademark high jump kicks. Director Albert Pyun proves himself thoroughly incompetent every time this happens. I lost track of how many times someone –good or bad- disregarded their gun to put up their fists and go toe-to-toe with their adversary. You keep waiting for that Raiders of the Lost Ark moment where the hero gets tired of the theatrics and just gets the job done quick and easy with a bullet. It never comes. Considering the ruins of the world are at stake, it makes for a frustrating watch. At least it manages to be funny here and there, as when Gibson somehow activates a tiny retractable knife out of his boot to give his kicks a little extra… kick.

Cyborg looks amazingly cheap and that’s par for the course on these post-apocalyptic action pics, but you can make it all look good with interesting characters and rapid-fire action. This effort is dull and made worse by the camera work, which frequently frames people, locations and objects so that you have no idea what you’re supposed to be looking at. The unengaging plot leaves you plenty of time to tear apart basically every aspect of the production, which is all that’ll prevent you from falling asleep. The attempts at characterization are bland and generic, not to mention slightly confusing at times. You’re begging for a straightforward narration so you can put together what exactly is happening in the numerous flashbacks that tell us why Gibson is so dark and brooding. Not that you’d care, of course, but it would be nice.

I knew I’d have to write my review of Cyborg immediately after it film ended. Even as it plays out, you can feel your memories of what just happened slip through your fingers. It’s got a couple of bloody scenes that you could call entertaining, but this feels like an obligation, a film released to make money to fund a bigger project later on. (On VHS, April 28, 2018)

[tspoe-pods]

This, um… This really ain’t very good.

[theactioneer]

Cyborg (Albert Pyun, 1989)

[fitsofgloom]

I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

[80smovies]

[videomessiah]

Nemesis (1992)

[memoriastoica]

Cyborg (1989)

[trashvideofinland]

Cyborg (1989) Egmont Film https://www.videospace.fi/release/cyborg_vhs_egmont_film_finland

[vhs-ninja]

[movieassholes]

Then we heard the rumors. That the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

Fender Tremolo - Cyborg (1989)

[brokehorrorfan]

Originally due out this past January, Scream Factory has set an April 24 street date for its Cyborg collector’s edition Blu-ray release. CRP Group designed the new cover art; the original poster is on the reverse side.

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in the 1989 sci-fi thriller alongside Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, and Dayle Haddon. It’s written and directed by Albert Pyun (The Sword and the Sorcerer).

Cyborg has received a new 4K scan from the original film elements. Not for lack of trying, the company was unable to include the director’s cut or deleted scenes. There are still plenty of extras included, which are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary with writer/director Albert Pyun (new)

A Ravaged Future: The Making of Cyborg – Interviews with writer/director Albert Pyun, actors Vincent Klyn, Deborah Richter, and Terrie Batson, director of photography Philip Alan Waters, and editor Rozanne Zingale (new)

Shoestring Fantasy: The Effects of Cyborg – Interviews with visual effects supervisor Gene Warren Jr., go-motion technician Christopher Warren, and rotoscope artist Bret Mixon (new)

Extended interviews from Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films documentary with writer/director Albert Pyun and uncredited editor Sheldon Lettich

Theatrical trailer

Still gallery

Deteriorating from a deadly plague, 21st-Century America is descending into a barbaric nightmare. Only Pearl Prophet (Dayle Haddon), a beautiful half human/half cyborg, has the knowledge necessary to develop a vaccine. But during her quest to gather data and bring the cure to the world, Pearl is captured by cannibalistic Flesh Pirates who plot to keep the antidote for themselves and rule the world. Now, only saber-wielding hero Gibson Rickenbacker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) can rescue her and save civilization.

[justfilms]

Cyborg - Albert Pyun 1989