Cyborg X [DVD]

Average movie of it's genre, nothing new or eyecatching

all good

good

Fairly good movie.

This is an enjoyable film but no substitles

cool

Cyborgs and drones take over planet. One year later small group of humans confront small group of Cyborgs. A full explanation minus the silly plot twist comes about 13 minutes into the film.How much you like the film depends on how you view it. As a serious sci-fi action film it left much to be desired. As a million dollar campy production, it fairs better non-sober.The production has a lot of shooting and blood splatter, including one of the best head blown off brain splatter scenes I have seen. The film includes some silly swagger. Generic plot spoilers: Cyborgs have lots of skin showing and can die if shot, but seldom due until the director is ready for them to die. Two people (one Cyborg) shooting at each other with machine guns twenty feet apart and no one gets hit. If you tell someone to take head shots, I would expect that person to do so also. If your body is severed at the torso, you don't have conscienceless, let alone the strength to pull yourself across the ground. The blood has drained out. Guns, swords, and electric circular saws for arms.Danny Trejo plays "Captain Machine Gun" a cartoonish character who has brightly bleached straight teeth so he can spout off tough guy lines: "If we die we die as one." The women with the best cleavage die first, leaving us with miss "Perky..." (Eve Mauro)Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

In the near future the American government has developed an AI and built it into a computer virus. They engage the most tech-savvy company in the US to distribute the virus in order to finish development of super soldiers to stop potential terrorist/hostile attacks. But as soon as the virus is deployed it takes over and creates cyborgs and drones which decimate the human population across the globe. A handful of remaining humans finds that the head of the company who deployed the virus is still alive but held captive and they set out to free him and use his knowledge to destroy the AI program.Make no mistake, this is a super low budget production and it really shows. The indoor locations are all old buildings and the outdoors are old tents set up somewhere ugly. The acting is generally lacking but this may be due to the awful (and cringeworthy) script. There is no originality here with ideas from other films (like The Terminator) used. Not helping is not having any money available to make anything seem real. The cyborgs, in particular, are terrible.The Blu-ray presentation is OK in the picture department with generally good clarity and colours in the outdoor scenes. The sound is delivered via a dts-HD ma soundtrack and although the voices are clear enough there's not much use made of the surround channels.