Cyborg (1989)

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Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Gibson Rickenbacker, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn and Dayle Haddon.


Directed by Albert Pyun.


Story & Screenplay written by Kitty Chalmers.


Distributed by © Cannon Films Inc. & Cannon International.


Theatrical Release Date April 7, 1989 (USA)


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Synopsis!
"Cyborg" is a 1989 action/sci-fi film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, an underdog street fighter who battles a group of sadistic outlaws (The Pirates) led by Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) along the east coast of the United States in a post-apocalyptic near future. It was generally panned by critics.

It was one of the last Cannon Films productions to be distributed by MGM/UA. Cyborg 2, starring Elias Koteas and Angelina Jolie, was released in 1993. Cyborg 3 The Recycler, a direct-to-video release, followed in 1994.

Plot!
Sometime in the 21st century, as a plague sweeps across a civilization already ruined by anarchy, genocide and starvation, a small group of the last surviving scientists and doctors—located in Atlanta, Georgia—work on a cure to try and save whats left of humanity. They require information stored on a computer system in New York City to complete their work, and through surgery on volunteer Pearl Prophet (Dayle Haddon), they create a cyborg who will attempt the treacherous journey there to download the data and courier it back.

The cyborged Pearl, accompanied by her escort/bodyguard Marshall Strat, retrieves the data in New York, but is pursued by the vicious Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) and his gang of pirates (including the muscled Brick Bardo, played by Ralf Moeller), who revel in the misery and suffering of the city, doing whatever they can to perpetuate and exacerbate it. Fender—whose incredible strength, and icy blue eyes hidden under dark glasses, indicate he is also cyborged in some way—wants to own the cure alone and exploit people with it. Strat, badly injured in skirmishes with the pirates, tells Pearl to leave him and get to the Bronx to look for a slinger that can escort her to safety. She flees and happens upon Gibson Rickenbacker (Van Damme), a slinger, or mercenary, who provides protection against pirate attacks. No sooner does she explain her situation to him than they are overrun by Fenders gang and Gibson is knocked out with a bullet from a pirates gun. Fender, having slaughtered and beheaded Strat, dangles the severed head in front of Pearl and tells her that he will take her to Atlanta. There, she must deliver him the cure... or else he will give [her] the horror show.

Fender and his gang slaughter a family by the seaside, steal their boat, and head south for Atlanta via the Intracoastal Waterway with the captive Pearl. Gibson, recovering and tracking the pirates, arrives at the scene of destruction late at night. A strange figure in the shadows moves to attack him, but with quick reflexes he launches a throwing knife that takes the attacker down. His attacker turns out to be Nady Simmons (Deborah Richter), a young woman whod been hiding since the pirate attack and thought Gibson was one of their gang. After they camp and recover overnight, Nady reveals that her entire familys been wiped out by the plague and that she wants to follow the pirates and try to help the cyborg. Gibson, meanwhile, is less concerned with a cure for the plague than with finding Fender and eliminating him. He tries to persuade Nady to stay away, saying he doesnt want to see her die, but she insists that he will need her help.

In flashbacks that haunt Gibson, it is revealed that he had once fallen in love and settled down in an abandoned country house with a client, Mary, and her two young children after escorting them from the city. Fender found them there and terrorized them, killed Mary and her son and abducted her daughter Haley, forcing Gibson to take up the slinger lifestyle once again.