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Director:
Albert Pyun
Writer (WGA):
Albert Pyun (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
9 October 1993 (Japan) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
He said it takes a cyborg to kill a cyborg. She's going to prove him dead wrong.
Plot:
In the future, a kickboxer and a robot lead a revolution against ruling cyborgs. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Kathy Long ... Nea

Kris Kristofferson ... Gabriel

Lance Henriksen ... Job

Scott Paulin ... Simon

Gary Daniels ... David

Nicholas Guest ... Farmer
Vincent Klyn ... Ty (as Vince Klyn)
Ben McCreary ... Chance
Bob Brown ... 1st Marauder
Jon H. Epstein ... Matthew
Burton Richardson ... Marauder guard

Nancy Thurston ... Woman Bandit
Edmund Tyler Wrenn ... Boy
Brad Langenberg ... Master Builder
Clare Hoak ... Mother
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Runtime:
France:90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Certification:
South Korea:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
Moab, Utah, USA more
Company:
Kings Road Entertainment more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double in Gabriels's fight scenes. more
Quotes:
Simon: Oh no! Am I on fire now? Yeah... great. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater: Viki Williamson Night" (1995) more

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Not bad for an Albert Pyun film, but it's still an Albert Pyun film, 21 April 2002
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Author: frankfob from California

I tuned into this thing one night on a cable channel a few minutes after the credits ran, so I didn't know who had done it at first. The longer I saw it, the more I started thinking, "Jesus, this looks like an Albert Pyun flick." Wasn't quite sure, though, for two main reasons: the photography was quite good (and the Utah desert scenery was beautiful), and Scott Paulin gave an hilarious performance as Simon, a murderous cyborg, but with some style and a sense of humor. Paulin must have ad-libbed the many clever one-liners he shot out, because Albert Pyun hasn't written anything even remotely funny or coherent in his career. Unfortunately, Paulin doesn't have all that much screen time before he's gone, and the movie's the worse for it. Lance Henriksen, playing the evil head cyborg, growls his way through his part, as he's done in countless other movies like this. I don't know what the hell Kris Kristofferson is doing in this thing; maybe he wanted to see what the Utah desert looked like and get paid for it. He goes through the movie looking (and sounding) like he just woke up, and in fact spends most of the last half of the movie on his back in a tent. Kathy Long, the nominal hero, has a great body, is attractive, has a great body, fights extremely well, has a great body, and doesn't have an iota of acting talent, but that doesn't matter in a movie like this. This being an Albert Pyun film, it's full of the trademarks that we've all come to know and love: inane and idiotic dialog, choppy editing, and the impression that they lost a reel in the middle of the picture and figured, "Ah, nobody'll ever notice."

As bad as this movie is, however, it's a shade above most of Pyun's other efforts--this is "Citizen Kane" compared to his brain-numbing "Adrenaline: Feel the Rush", for example. The fights are pretty well done, if repetitive (after she knocks down eight or nine guys one after the other, you find yourself saying, "Alright already, go to something else"), and Long is very athletic (and, as a previous poster has noted, has a great derrière). It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not anywhere near as incoherent and incompetent as Pyun's usual extravaganzas. You could do worse than rent this movie--not much worse, granted, but worse nonetheless.

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