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Highly Overrated But Still Good

The acting in this movie is really good.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The fact that Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow has almost nothing to do with the first Cyborg is probably a good thing. I've seen both, and the first one is an ugly, grimy early starring vehicle for Jean Claude Van Damme that plays like an episode of American Gladiators on PCP. This sequel, however, is a scrappy little sci fi delight. It takes plays in a futuristic B- Movie realm where maniacal corporations wage war on each other for the control of lucrative artificial intelligence, cyborgs who can be programmed to be slaves, soldiers or whatever you want. Angelina Jolie is Casella 'Cash' Reese, a gorgeous warrior Cyborg held under the watchful eye of the Pinwheel corporation, ruled by a hammy Allen Garfield. Her trainer, a mercenary named Colton Hicks (Elias Koteas) starts to fall in love with her. In this particular B movie universe, it's implied that there are fragments of what may resemble a soul that begin to grow inside the cyborgs, and gradually Cash falls for him as well. They plan their escape, and embark into a delightfully cheap looking metropolis of the future, seeking an oasis far away that's basically a non extradition zone for robots. Pinwheel sends some dangerous bounty hunters after them. There's fighting. And running. And shooting. And Cyborg sex including a 17 year old Angelina going fully topless, which makes me wonder how the filmmakers ducked the authorities on that one. Not that I'm complaining. Aside from baring her chesticles, she makes a pretty solid action heroine at that age, and even before making a name for herself she carries the film pretty well. Koteas is pretty much capable of anything as far as acting goes, breezing through this one in his sleep whilst still keeping one eye open to give Hicks a vulnerability and desperation that the film hardly deserves. Character actor Billy Drago gives a scene stealing performance of sheer unbridled lunacy as Danny Bench, a terrifyingly unhinged contract killer who pursues the pair and has an absolute smackdown of a fight sequence with Koteas. That old salty dog Jack Palance even shows up for an amusing, warmhearted supporting role as a mysterious hacker who helps the duo out and in turn gets his own retribution. Get one thing straight right now: this a B movie. If you go into one of these with your critic's brain shovelling coal into the fires of cynicism, you're gonna have a bad time. These films are overtly cheap, chock full of deliberate plot holes and speckled with acting that could wilt flowers. But I love them anyway. I grew up watching an endless stream of direct to video horror, sci fi and thriller flicks that maybe ten people on planet earth besides me have seen. I love them, they are amazing and they exist in a realm far, far outside film 'criticism'. It's best to gear your brain into fun mode before hitting play, then just relax and enjoy. If you're the type of person that can do that, you'll love this kind of stuff. If not, steer well clear. Cyborg 2 is the perfect example of a B movie done right, and I'll be the first to admit that there's plenty that are made with the kind of lifeless ineptitude that doesn't even deserve a place in the genre. This one's cheaply made, doesn't have much of a budget to its name, yet admirably creates it's own little world with what it has, spinning a story of action, romance, robots and Angelina Jolie. Honestly, who can say no to those things? You, that's who.

Cyborg 2 (1993) * (out of 4) Really bad, direct-to-video "sequel" takes place in 2074 when two companies (an American and Japanese) are battling over creating cyborgs, which are now everywhere. PinWheel creates Cash Reese (Angelina Jolie) in hopes of taking out the competitor but she runs off with her instructor Elias Koteas) under the guidance of another cyborg (Jack Palance). CYBORG 2 actually got a pretty big budget for a direct-to-video sequel but I think it says quite a bit when Jean-Claude Van Damme refused to return. We actually get to see him in some flashback sequences but this here is just footage from the first movie. This here really isn't a sequel as it's basically just one of those movies that adds a number to a title hoping fans of the original will pick it up. There's really no point in watching this film unless you're a fan of Jolie and want to see her in her first starring role. The actress was just 18 when she made this and apparently she's fairly embarrassed by the picture today. I would say her performance is certainly weak and there's no question that you'd every have watched this in 1993 and thought you were seeing a future Oscar-winner. Thankfully she has a nude scene but this comes so far into the movie that most would have probably already turned the thing off. Palance actually is a blast here and just wait to you hear his narration at the start of the picture. That crispy old voice is just priceless and I think the film would have been a lot more entertaining had they just cut everything from the film except his narration. He does finally appear on screen but it's not for long. The special effects are slightly better than you'd typically see in a picture like this including the sequence over the opening credits. However, the story itself just drags way too much and there wasn't a single second where I was actually interested in what was going on. The boredom level is quite high from start to finish as the 99-minute running time really drags.

Just caught this on the horror channel and I definitely reckon Angelina Jolie's rack has got bigger since then. That is pretty much the most salient point I took from an otherwise unremarkable rickety old straight to DVD Terminator inspired late night TV channel filler. You know the score. Now apparently the minimum requirements for a review is ten lines, which leaves me in the embarrassing position of desperately trying to fill those ten lines. Which, given my fairly absent state of mind after watching this title, will be difficult, and I apologise in advance to anyone unfortunate enough to read this expecting at the very minimum, for the words to relate in some way to the film. I make that nine and a half lines, so now we should be...........there.

In the year 2074 the PinWheel corporation creates a 'almost-human' cyborg Casella Reese, aka. Cash.She is designed specifically to charm/seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Things go awry, when she starts to have feelings for a human Colson Ricks, aka. Colt 45 who works for PinWheel as a martial arts instructor. He falls for Cash as well, and with the help of Mercy, they escape. PinWheel Corp. sends Danny Bench, a 'Cyborg Tracker' after both Colt and Cash...There is only one reason to see this movie, and that's the debut of Jolie. For anybody else, it's a turgid, lifeless sequel which features a flashback of Van Dammes so they could nick the name.On the plus side, we have Billy Drago doing the bad guy thing he did in almost very single straight to video release between 1990 and 1993. He's worth watching in almost anything,a nd the little screen time he has brings this from the mundane to the below average.Jolie is nothing special, but I fear that the majority of people who want to see this movie are only interested in one scene, I must warn you, every ten seconds or so the scene cuts to Jack Palance looking moody.A worthless movie, rightfully dismissed now by Jolie