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The greatest film ever made., 15 January 2007
10/10
Author: mockingbirdred from United Kingdom

I bought this on DVD for £1 after me and a friend of mine were having a season of watching really lame films, and I have to say, this is very possibly the most unintentionally funny film I have ever seen in my whole life. I don't know what the hell Sam Firstenberg was smoking when he made it, but whatever it was seems to have totally affected his ability to shout "Cut!" as there are so many scenes that left me wondering why the hell they didn't just go back and refilm them. And the editing is atrociously bad. Look carefully during the scene where David Bradley's character is assaulting the house on his motorbike. He jumps off the bike, and shoots twice at a couple of guys, one on the roof, and one on a balcony. Count them, he fires two shots. So then why, inexplicably, does a third man roll down the stairs immediately after, clearly having been shot? It was this kind of total sloppiness that made the film so enjoyable, yet baffling, as they obviously had a decent enough size budget to hire helicopters and blow the hell out of everything, yet not enough to edit the damn thing right...

Other unintentionally comic moments are: "Quincy" the Cyborg (Yes, Quincy...) trying to smash through the door in the morgue but nearly knocking himself out as only the top half of the door crumples (my favourite bit. Watch it in slo-mo...).

Quincy getting electrocuted and walking into a wall.

Quincy's hand-knife-glove-fingers.

Quincy, the most advanced robot cyborg in the world deciding the best way to kill the president during the demonstration is to dive through the windscreen headfirst and catch fire.

David Bradley doing a spinning kick and kicking no-one in the face in the fight outside the bar.

David Bradley disarming a guard, then spinning round on the spot for no reason before shooting him.

David Bradley's lame attempts to distract the police officers in the car before he snatches the gun.

David Bradley's Bumbag.

David Bradley.

Todd Jensen's "Philip" cyborg, and his wholly inappropriate cyborg voice. Coupled with a hilarious penchant for repeating words for no reason, such as, John Rhys-Davies: "this is the bank"...

Philip: "BANK"...

Put simply, if you haven't seen this movie, hunt it down. It is utterly hilarious, for all the wrong reasons. 10 out of 10.

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Great entertainment value!, 7 September 2004
6/10
Author: KnatLouie (jeghader@hotmail.com) from Copenhagen, Denmark

This movie wasn't as bad as I'd expected it to be. The plot: a renegade cop, Jack (David Bradley, great B-action-flick guy) goes into the jungle (in Jamaica I think), to find his lost brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by a charismatic bad guy, Kessel (played by John Rhys-Davies in perhaps one of his best roles ever) - while looking for him, Jack encounters many bad guys whose asses he must kick, and he also scores with some bimbo (Played by Alonna Shaw, who probably is a nice person in real life, but p*ssed me off in the movie)

The Highlight of the movie is the Evil Cyborg, Quincy (played by Rufus Swart, who I don't think said a single word during the entire movie..and it appears to be his last movie too!) - he has this really cool knife-glove he puts on to slash his enemies, looks great!

I won't reveal to much about the movie, go see it! It's brilliant! I laughed my ass of, especially at the end, when Jack fools Kessel..it's brilliantly written and conceived! (or maybe not)

I give this movie 6/10, because it's very entertaining, but still a crap-flick though...the tourist-bag Jack wears throughout the movie looked so silly, maybe that's why the bad guys aren't afraid of him, because he looks like a total wussy, with a gold belt... John Rhys-Davies has a lot of good lines, and he steals EVERY scene he's in.. the same goes whenever Rufus Swart is in a scene, his foamy rubber "cyborg-legs/arms" looks hilariously cheap!

HEY! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!

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If you don't like cheezy movies..... then this isn't for you. If so then RENT THIS MOVIE!, 15 April 2000
Author: Coon51 from Worcester, MA

My friends make fun of me because I like movies just like this one. It's bad and I'm talkin' realy bad. The type of movie that only gets shown late at night on cable. The basic premise is that a cop gets a call from his brother and he goes to help him. He gets there and lots of fights take place. Without saying the ending (do I even have to) that is pretty much the whole film. I really like John Rhyes-Davie, so this film is not a total waste. Alright maybe it is, but its fun to watch. I wonder if Davies even admits to being in this movie? I wouldn't. Even after all that I still like this movie. It's fun because it is so formulaic that every single scene can be determined before it happens. This movie should only be watched by people who like cheezy movies and the five or six hardcore John Rhyse-Davis fans from around the world. All others stay away!!!!!

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*SPOILER* Worst ending of all time(don't read if you want to see this movie) as if it even matters, 8 October 2003
Author: Ramon Aaron Perez from United States

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the last scene of the movie shows our hero chasing the villain. The villain has the girl(it's so suspenseful too) and the hero(loser) says(no joke) what the hell is that and points behind the villain. The villain turns and gets shot in the head. WHAT??????? I mean an epileptic retarded monkey could write a better ending to this movie, not to mention act better than everyone in it(including Mr. Davies). If I could I would give this movie a rating of negative infinity and just pass it on to the mystery science 3000 guys to tear to shreds. What a piece of.......

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It's Going to be Like Taking Candy from Small Children!, 29 April 2005
6/10
Author: Luka2095

Cyborg Cop is a B-movie starring action hero, cult favorite David Bradley. David Bradley did a handful of movies from the 1980s, right up until 1997 when he forced to stop doing films due a heart condition. Some consider Cyborg Cop to be David Bradley's best movie.

The plot involves David Bradley playing a renegade cop Jack Ryan, who has been partners with his brother Philip Ryan for many years. However during a critical mission in the Caribbean Islands, Philip is left for dead after having a fatal run in with a new type of robotic soldier. A rich man named Kessel, played by John-Rhys Davies, is behind all of this, as he attempts to build the perfect human killing machine. Kessel and his scientists eventually transform Philip into a prototype cyborg assassin. Jack learns of his brother's death, and heads down to the island to find out what is going on. While he's there, he meets an attractive reporter Kate, played by Alonna Shaw. She gets under his skin at first, however they develop an attraction for each other and team up to try and stop the madness Kessel is creating.

Overall Cyborg Cop overall isn't a bad film. From the preview you expect a lot of fighting, a lot of action, and a good guy bad guy showdown. What we get however is a lot of set-up in the plot, for a movie that is predictable to start off with. It even says on the trailer, and on the cover of the movie it is a cross between the Terminator, and Robo-Cop. How much more do we need to know? Things in the beginning of the film also make no sense. Why do they need to show a scene with Jack's brother Phillip adopting a son? Perhaps they want to show us that these characters have some depth, but the scene went on far too long. The kid also is incredibly annoying, and takes away time that could be better spent elsewhere. More set-up begins when Jack Ryan meets Kate the reporter. They have some cringe inducing attempts at chemistry, and spend far too much time on that angle. The movie takes about a full hour to set up, and in the last 30 minutes they try to shoehorn in the action and fighting scenes. It just doesn't quite work.

The parts of the movie that do work however, are with Kessel. He is the perfect bad guy for a movie like this, and did a good job at creeping the hell out of everyone. The scenes with the cyborg demonstrations were perfect, perhaps the highlight of the movie. Jack's first encounter with one of the cyborgs is also a reasonably well done scene.

What isn't well done is the first hour of the movie in the set-up as I mentioned. Jack gets in a total of two fights, which really have nothing to do with the central plot. He just beats up a few guys at a bar, and some henchman who try to follow him to a local bar. I was expecting a bit more than that.

The final 30 minutes of the movie are hit and miss at the best, however it all comes to a quick, and rather forced ending which left a bitter taste in my mouth.

Overall Cyborg Cop has spurts of energy. From the previews you expect to get an action-packed movie start-finish with a good showdown at the end. What we get however is bits and pieces of a movie which should have been extended to 2 hours to fit in all the plot set-up. Overall it's decent, but I was looking for a lot more action. The scenes with Kessel really save it though from being a total bore. John-Ryhs Davies also gets some hysterical one-liners in the movie: "It's going to be like taking candy from small children", was the funniest line in the movie. It's little bits like this which make Cyborg Cop fun to watch.

Overall: 6 out of 10.

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Hilariously Bad All Over, 2 January 2005
3/10
Author: (chrisdunscombe@hotmail.com) from Australia

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You know you're in for a real cinematic treat when you pick up a film from a bargain bin at less than five dollars and it looks as though it was pirated in Malaysia. This is definitely worth your while if you feel like laughing at everyone who was involved with this film. From the absolutely shoddy writing and casting to the hilariously bad all over FX: in most fight scenes the weapon fire and the resulting pyrotechnics are dubiously mis-matched, the timing is amusingly off- this film is almost as good as Battlefield Earth, and slightly better than RoboCop, its source material! Cyborg Cop is very much jammed with action movie cliché after cliché, and i've never seen Sam Firstenberg's name on film credits since. Perhaps this is a good thing.

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Well doon boy, well doon, 18 November 2009
7/10
Author: Bezenby from United Kingdom

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I hadn't really heard anything about this film but I picked it up anyway as A) It looked stupid, therefore good and B) it cost fifty pence, and therefore A + B = C, C being 'Cyborg Cop is a fairly enjoyable action flick which you can get cheap, the cheapness therefore counteracting any faults the film may have'.

Two cops (brothers?) get into a bit of trouble after being over-zealous when apprehending an overacting maniac. Months later, one of them ends up heading to a Caribbean island to tackle heroin smugglers, but instead gets caught up in an ambush (complete with exploding remote control plane!), encounters a giant cyborg, which then cuts off his hand. The cop, done in by the cyborg, only has one career option left, and that's to become a cyborg himself.

Y'see there's a guy on this island who makes cyborgs to sell to shady companies and/or shady governments. This man is John Rhys Davies, who you might remember as Gimli from Lord of the Rings. In that film he was good, with his Scottish accent and stuff, but here he's got an 'Ee by gum' Yorkshire miner's accent which sounds totally ridiculous and hilarious. It contributes to the film's enjoyability factor. Plus, he's got loads of gadgets, including a robotic arm attached to a wall that answers the phone for him.

More daftness follows as the cop's brother come looking for him - cue love interest (great acting from this chick!), a reggae band playing, and the usual punch ups. Now and again the film cuts back to the main cyborg baddie type person, who does people in as a demonstration of his power (including ramming his fist through a guy's head).

Cyborg Cop is pretty daft stuff, but it delivers what it promises: plenty of action, plenty of daftness, and some nudity to keep us braindead fans of such things happy.

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so bad that it's good (in parts), 16 September 2009
7/10
Author: movieman_kev from United States

Ex-DEA agent Jack (David Bradley, the American Ninja in parts 3 through 5), whom got fired after shooting a nut-job who had taken a hostage, but was the son of a wealthy newspaper mogul, seeks to rescue his brother Phillip also a DEA agent after he gets into deep trouble with evil master-mind, Kessel on a tropical island, unaware that Phillip has since been changed into a cyborg programmed to kill.

Make no bones about it, this movie is brain-dead,moronic B-movie fare through and through, but at the same time I found it to be fairly entertaining, especially while inebriated with like-minded friends. Do some bits fail on their faces? yes. There's a Dukes of Hazzard- type chase sequence that's utterly horrible (not in the good way) & the soundtrack is almost as horrid. Yet for this most part I was amused. One note: If you don't have a penchant for bad B-action movies, steer clear of this one.

Eye Candy: An unknown actress who plays 'Cindy' & Alonna Shaw both get topless

My Grade: B-

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Not excellent, but good enough., 10 November 2005
6/10
Author: Anthony Bannon (bannonanthony) from Annalong, N. Ireland

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Another film which I picked up a low-price DVD release of. This is the first David Bradley film I've seen. I have videos of American NINJA 3 & 4 but I haven't really watched either of them yet. I can see why they cast Bradley in those films as he looks like a taller, dark-haired version of Michael Dudikoff. Hell, original American NINJA director Sam Firstenberg directs here. Bradley, who plays disgraced DEA agent Jack Ryan, is a great martial artist and his acting abilities are pretty good as well, but sometimes he goes over the top for the sake of 'drama', especially in the scene where he confronts the DEA boss about the mission he sent Jack's brother on a mission he was supposedly killed during.

In keeping with the title of the film, Jack's brother Philip has in fact been turned into a prototype cyborg killer by drug-dealing kingpin Kessel (John Rhys-Davies). Davies is great as the bad guy in the film (wearing the trademark Firstenberg white suit, as worn by the villains in the first two American NINJA pictures) but what's the deal with his accent. It's constantly shifting. Is he supposed to be South African or what? That said, Davies excels as the main bad guy. He get a lot of funny lines. For example, after one incompetent employee is shot dead by his henchman and falls against a wall, staining it with blood, Kessel moans 'I just had that wall painted!'.

Another great performance is given by the late Rufus Swart as Quincy, Kessel's cyborg enforcer. He is an emotionless killing machine who seems virtually unstoppable. I knew Swart had played a rather wussy character in the MST3K film SPACE MUTINY, so it surprised me that they'd cast him as a TERMINATOR character. But he looks really menacing and executes several people in a rather grisly way. He has a great fight with Jack in the middle and at the end of the movie.

One annoying performance is given by Alonna Shaw as Kate (or Cathy as the credits call her), a nosey reporter. Well, she's annoying at first but then turns out okay as she starts to fall for Jack. Jack gives her the cold treatment at first because of the press coverage her paper gave of the incident which lead to his disgrace at the start of the film, but he cuts her some slack eventually. Like most action movie romances, this one develops very quickly and causes you to go 'Huh?', but it sure beats them fighting. Most of the big action is saved for the climax of the picture, and Firstenberg handles it brilliantly. In conclusion, CYBORG COP is flawed, but that doesn't stop it from being entertaining. But I'm still glad I got it cheap.

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Cheap but good!, 4 May 2004
Author: ELPSYCHO_WHW from South wales

Well if your like me and you love these cheap martial arts/Sci-fi films made in the mid 90's when the Karate film genre was big then this is no exception. David Bradley (king of TV movies) is the hero in this one and he has to try and rescue his brother from, believe it or not none other than John Rhys-Davies. His accent is very bad i'm not sure if its a poor british accent or an African one. The highlight of the film is that Bradley wears a massive black leather Bum Bag (or fanny Pack) throughout the film and never takes it off even when hes fighting! He co ordinates this fine piece of clothing with a gold belt. The fighting isn't too bad and the action is ok. I would recommend buying it for a bit of fun.

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