In any event, a Cyborg (Dayle Haddon) is programmed with information for a possible cure, but before she can return to Atlanta (apparently still the Centers for Disease Control in the next century), she is kidnaped by the infinitely evil Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn, the latest in a series of steroid-based bad guys with odd teeth, wicked eyes and processed voices). As the cosmic Gibson Rickenbacker, he speaks softly and carries a big kick, not to mention the punch and the occasional weapon, though Van Damme is so clever he often makes villains kill themselves with their own weapons.Īs you may recall, it's the 21st century, postapocalypse, and those few people left in the world are dealing not only with inept film producers (Cannon's Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus) and uninspired directors (Albert Pyun), but with the plague.

Like most martial arts heroes, the squat, overmuscled Van Damme can barely mumble English, except for body English. It's just another martial arts film, all dressed up with no place to go. In any event, time and place are irrelevant, since 'Cyborg' has nothing to do with the 21st century.

In 'Cyborg,' Jean-Claude Van Damme is 'the first hero of the 21st century,' but even if everyone's clothes look as if they're from a glam-metal close-out sale at Commander Salamander - we are talking major silly future-fashion statements - the 21st century itself looks like '70s New Jersey, a wasteland of eroding factories, auto junkyards and sub-urban angst.

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