AMERICAN CYBORG 
(1994)

(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide)


Nicole Hansen is carrying a live fetus around in a backpack--yes, that's what I said--and she has only 36 hours to make it ten miles to the port, where a boat will come take the fetus to Europe and hatch it in a place where there are still a few human beings left who don't have fungus growing on their faces, in this international shot-in-Israel weirdbeard trash-dump futuristic sci-fi actors-running-through-the-sewers TERMINATOR ripoff. Nicole is being chased by an indestructible robot killing machine with an automatic rifle and a computer- guided targeting system in his bionic eyeballs. Fortunately, she runs into a long-haired bodybuilder cyborg named Austin who thinks she's kinda cute. Nine hundred and forty-seven gunbattles later, all three of them end up in the waist-deep surf, rootin around for the fetus in a jar, which is floating on the surface like a dead carp. It's the first right-to-life sci-fi flick. Sixty-four dead bodies. Homeless abuse. Body-carving. Knife through the hand. Transmission dropped on a guy's head. Knife in the neck. Killer transvestite. Flaming extras. Literal acid rain. arm-sewing. Eyeball mutilation. Exploding cyborg. Gratuitous radioactive cannibals. Gratuitous mummy attack. Fingers roll. Arms roll. Kung Fu. Lead pipe Fu. Electrified-fence Fu. With John Ryan as the cyborg cop with a nail sticking out of his finger (get it? fingernail?), Joe Lara as the good-guy cyborg ("I'm what you call a realist--the only real thing is me"), Uri Gavriel as the grotesquely-deformed cannibal mutant leader who drools over a woman strapped to a cross ("I believe beauty can only truly be appreciated through taste"). Nicole has the best line: "You're a cyborg! You lied to me!" 3 stars

 

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