CYBORG COP I

CYBORG COP [I] (vt Cyborg Ninja, USA working title). Sam Firstenberg, dir. USA: Trimark Pictures, 1993. "Nu Image Presents a Nu World Presentation," (c) New World Services. Greg Latter, script. David Bradley, Todd Jensen, John Rhys-Davies, stars.

First of trilogy. In this opener, an evil drug lord "attempts to create an invincible cyborg warrior" out of an agent for the US Drug Enforcement Administration. At the website cited in the note, Richard Scheib indicates the work intended as direct-to-video, which seems likely. Fans of SF film will probably see here a ripoff of ROBOCOP, with some touches of THE TERMINATOR (q.v. ), plus Ramboesque films where heroic rogue American agents defeat foreign drug dealers. The cyborgization process involves the superimposition of the cybernetic and cryogenic upon the human. Note also for stress on prosthetic arms and hands (with razor claws), a deadly model airplane, and the opposition of a cyborg assassin and a motorcycle. John Rhys-Davies's evil scientist and drug lord Kessel has the line "Science is cyberbetics, and I am its prophet!"

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