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I love this movie so much

So much average

Excellent but underrated film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Here's a lively actioner with plenty of firepower but not much brain power behind it. Yep, we're back in the world of '90s straight-to-video cheapo science fiction thrillers and CYBER TRACKER shamelessly rips off THE TERMINATOR for much of its action sequences and plot ideas. Yes, the plot is light and merely an excuse for copious amounts of action, ranging from numerous explosions, car crashes, martial arts mayhem and extended shoot-outs, and you just end up wanting more out of the film in the end. I've lost track of all the flicks like this that were made in the '90s, mindless entertainment which doesn't register at all and which I probably will have completely forgotten about in a few days time. It's not that the film is that bad, it's not, and at least all the cast and crew have a minimum of skill behind them. It's just that the ambitious (but unimaginative) storyline is severely hampered by the low budget which states that all action scenes must take place in the dark in cheap-looking sets.Thanks to the lack of imagination on the part of the scriptwriters, the film's fate hangs on the strength of these action scenes which are pretty but very routine; it's amazing that so much action can be so unexciting. Pepin seems to have an obsession with filming cars flying up ramps and crashing down in flames which is nice the first time but soon becomes plain stupid. One time, a huge black van hits a car facing horizontally across its path and instead of ramming it to one side or flipping it in the air, the van instead flies OVER the bonnet and crashes into flames. There seems to be no logic behind these vehicle stunts.The "Trackers" of the title - there are about half a dozen, all played by the same big butch bald guy - are very unimpressive creations; somebody obviously hoped to emulate Arnie's menace but Jim Maniaci is a poor man's substitute for Schwarzenegger. He just looks like a typical street thug you see in a lot of movies with no visible intelligence. The minimal robot special effects involve the Trackers getting limbs blown off, shot and exploded, which leads to some cheap mechanical make-up effects and some weird animation of a "polymorph" substance inside these cyborgs (huh? what rot!). You've just gotta laugh at the opening shot, which rips off the beginning of TERMINATOR 2 as a Tracker enters a nightclub and surveys the crowd for possible threats complete with green robo-vision! The extended shoot-outs are monotonous and stupid, because the Trackers only hit their targets when it's convenient (ie. killing a minor character), and excessively violent as injured innocents are repeatedly shot in the chest in a cold-hearted manner. The martial arts scenes are okay but unimpressively shot, despite the best efforts of the cast. And what of the cast mired in this no-budget display of ineptitude? The lead is straight-to-video action man Don "The Dragon" Wilson, who has about half the acting ability of your average Van Damme but is pretty good at showing off his high kicks. Stacie Foster is the worthless love interest, and along with her the rest of the supporting good guys are so wooden and uninteresting characters that you don't give two hoots when they get massacred. The bad guys are far more interesting, led by the slimy John Aprea and Joseph Ruskin as a slimy corporate reptilian dude who unmistakably looks like Reggie Nalder. Also hanging around as a heavy is Australian martial artist Richard Norton. Sadly, this can't save what is undeniably cheap and tacky bottom-of-the-barrel slice of home video entertainment.

In the Los Angeles of the future, crime is rampant. So to help clear up the overly clogged judicial system, Senator Dilly (Aprea) institutes the American Computerized Judicial System. This basically consists of a robot, or android, or cyborg, or whatever (actually called a Tracker), that metes out justice right there on the spot, which means he's just going to shoot you. Dilly's bodyguards are Phillips (Wilson) and Ross (Norton). An underground movement of anti-robot revolutionaries springs up named the Union for Human Rights, who protest all of Dilly's ideas and plans. When Phillips falls in with this crew, Ross feels he knows too much and the former co-workers become mortal enemies on opposite sides of the issues. What will become the nature of justice in America? Find out by letting CyberTracker tell you today!Here we have a cross between R.O.T.O.R (1988)., American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993), Abraxas (1990), and Future Force (1989), along with fellow PM vehicle Hologram Man (1995) and more mainstream fare such as Universal Soldier (1992), Terminator (1984), Terminator 2 (1991) and Robocop (1987). But since it's a PM, it has all the high-quality explosions and action/stunt setpieces they're known for. And the movie as a whole is well-shot, in the PM style. So that prevents it from being your average sci-fi slog. But, falling into a common trap of low-budget future movies, everything is written in "future font", so you KNOW you're in the future. Just see David Heavener's Twisted Justice (1990) for further proof. That being said, the film drags once Phillips gets involved with the Union for Human Rights, but this is quickly corrected by the final fight between fan-favorites Richard Norton and Don the Dragon. Together at last, it's really a fan's dream to see them together. Their final fight is certainly worth seeing. Both Norton and Wilson show their prowess well in this movie, and it's always fun to see that the many goons all think they can take down Don the Dragon.As the bodyguard of Senator Silly..er...I mean DILLY, Wilson looks especially like Lou Diamond Phillips here. And his character's name is Phillips? Could that possibly be a coincidence?While the bald "judge jury and executioner" of the Tracker is a bit too ROTOR-y for its own good, it was played by Jim Maniaci of Timebomb (1991) and Cartel (1990) fame. Of the protesters, whose big gripe is that "Computers don't have hearts", Art Camacho appears. Wait until these people get a load of Apple. Hey-Oh! (to quote Ed McMahon). In another weird parallel, Phillips has a computerized companion in his apartment with a female voice named Agnes 1000. This is a lot like what Ed Marinaro has in The Protector (1999).CyberTracker is a good chance to see two of the DTV genre's leading lights in an offering by one of the top companies. Does it fulfill all the promise that description holds? Maybe not entirely, but you should probably see this anyway.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

Those action mad loonies of PM Entertainment, Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin deliver this somewhat fun Terminator rip off starring former kickboxing champ, Don 'The Dragon' Wilson.Funny thing is, despite his obvious skills in the ring, I have never much liked Wilson's on screen fights and this film proved no exception. Even the final fight against martial arts star Richard Norton – a fight which should have been awesome, proved to be decidedly mundane.But enough about the fights – what of the rest of the film you might ask?Well, it's derogative stuff at best and clearly knows it but with Merhi and Pepin on board, plots invariably play second fiddle to the action scenes at any rate. In this regards, there are some admittedly cool sequences on offer which really elevate the film.Acting wise? – Probably best not mentioned but overall a fairly fun little film that should keep action fans mildly amused for ninety or so minutes.

Eric Phillips (Don Wilson) is a secret service agent who prevents the assassination of a senator however along the way he finds a conspiracy and has a tracker on his tail. The tracker by the way is bent on terminating Phillips. The most obvious inspiration for this low budget cheeseball action flick, is of course Robocop and while that film had some imagination and real energy, this just has a real life kickboxing champ running away from a robot. The movie isn't so awful as it is just empty and repetitive. The story is written in clichés and the characters are set up to be cut down by the various gunfire. Don Wilson, as usual, is terrible in the lead role.*1/2 out of 4-(Poor)