Cyborg

A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

• Director: Albert Pyun
• Genre:Action / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:83 minutes

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme : Gibson Rickenbacker
Deborah Richter: Nady Simmons
Vincent Klyn : Fender Tremolo
Alex Daniels : Marshall Strat
Dayle Haddon : Pearl Prophet

Sometime in the 21st century, as a plague sweeps across a civilization already ruined by “anarchy, genocide and starvation,” a small group of the last surviving scientists and doctors—located in Atlanta, Georgia—work on a cure to try and save what’s left of humanity. They require information stored on a computer system in New York City to complete their work, and through surgery on volunteer Pearl Prophet (Dayle Haddon), they create a cyborg who will attempt the treacherous journey there to download the data and courier it back.

The new and improved Pearl, accompanied by her escort/bodyguard Marshall Strat, retrieves the data in New York, but is pursued by the vicious Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) and his gang of “pirates” (including the muscled Brick Bardo, played by Ralf Moeller), who revel in the misery and suffering of the city, doing whatever they can to perpetuate and exacerbate it. Fender—whose incredible strength, and icy blue eyes hidden under dark glasses, wants to own the cure alone and exploit people with it. Strat, badly injured in a skirmish with the pirates, tells Pearl to leave him and get to the Bronx to look for a “slinger” that can escort her to safety. She flees and happens upon Gibson Rickenbacker (Van Damme), a slinger, or mercenary, who provides protection against pirate attacks. No sooner does she explain her situation to him than they are overrun by Fender’s gang and Gibson is knocked out by falling debris. Fender, having slaughtered and beheaded Strat, dangles the severed head in front of Pearl and tells her that he will take her to Atlanta. There, she must deliver him the cure… or else she will “get the horror show.”

Fender and his gang slaughter a family by the seaside, steal their boat, and head south for Atlanta via the Intracoastal Waterway with the captive Pearl. Gibson, recovering and tracking the pirates, arrives at the scene of destruction late at night. A strange figure in the shadows moves to attack him, but with quick reflexes he launches a throwing knife that takes the attacker down. His attacker turns out to be Nady Simmons (Deborah Richter), a young woman who’d been hiding since the pirate attack and thought Gibson was one of their gang. After they camp and recover overnight, Nady reveals that her entire family was wiped out by the plague and that she wants to follow the pirates and try to help the cyborg. Gibson, meanwhile, is less concerned with a cure for the plague than with finding Fender and eliminating him. He tries to persuade Nady to stay away, saying he doesn’t want to see her die, but she insists that he will need her help. Read more

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