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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★½ 7

  (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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  Review by russman ★★★ 6

  I Liked Cyborg and That's OK

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★★ 5

  RIP albert pyun, a post-apocalyptic cyber-auteur. he was a true artist; i'm so thankful for his work.

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  Review by sydney ★★★★ 2

  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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  Review by sydney ★★★★ 1

  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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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★ 7

  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
  -Fender Tremolo

  Cannon Films were in pre-production for Masters of the Universe 2 and Spider-Man, two films that were going to shoot simultaneously under the direction of B-Movie auteur Albert Pyun. With sets built and costumes made, everything fell apart financially for both films, but Cannon needed to recoup the money spent somehow.

  Out of the ashes of He-Man and Spider-Man rose Cyborg as Pyun was determined that he was directing a film. To utilize the sets and costumes that were already made, he wrote the story over a weekend, naming every character in the film after musical instruments or manufacturers (all guitar related) so that he could have a showdown between Gibson and Fender. If that wasn't enough…

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★ 4

  It takes Jean-Claude Van Damme a whole damn movie to learn that high kicks are fun for showing-off, but only punches can stop cyborgs. Punches and of course sharp shards of metal lodged deep into the spinal area. There is quite a bit of religious imagery in this weirdly enough. Pyun really tries to sell the Muscles from Brussels as some kind of Christ-like figure. Pretty hilarious if you ask me. Almost as hilarious as that awful wig that JCVD was wearing in the flashback scenes.

  Not the best post-apocalyptic movie, by a long shot (this is Cannon after all), but I still had a great time revisiting this with Michelle.

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  Review by Justin Decloux ★★★★ 2

  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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  Review by single white femalien 10

  jean claude is the hottest white jesus of all time!!!

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  Review by Jack Bool ★★★ 1

  The Last Temptation of JCVD

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  Review by Ziglet_mir ★★

  RIP Albert Pyun, your Pyuniness was mighty. 

  All the hotshots and big names may pass but none inspired such a dire watch party when the time came.

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  Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★

  "Cyborg" is a 1989 apocalyptic science fiction/ martial arts action film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Being a Cannon films effort but during the later years when the company was having financial difficulties, "Cyborg" was something of regrouping of other ideas that didn't really connect, making it something of a back up solution come to life. As Cannon had invested money in both an unrealized Spiderman movie, as well as an unrealized sequel to "Masters of the Universe" (1987), "Cyborg" was in turn created when both of those projects we backed out of but with plenty of money spent on physical props, settings, and costumes for those respective films. Pyun was set to direct both as…