Description
Cyborg — Jean-Claude Van Damme, Budapest Film (DVD, 1989)
In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!
Product Details
- UPC: 5999544244313
- Catalog / Series Number: Akció 007 (Akció Klasszikusok series)
- Product Type: DVD Video (DVD5)
- Brand / Label: Budapest Film Kft.
- Lead Actor: Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Director: Albert Pyun
- Original Film Year: 1989 (© 1988 Golan-Globus)
- This Edition: 2006 (cover design © Budapest Film)
- Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Post-Apocalyptic
Product Features
- Format: DVD, single disc (DVD5)
- Running time: approx. 86 minutes
- Picture: Colour, 4:3
- Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
- Audio languages: Hungarian, English
- Subtitles: Hungarian
- Menu language: Hungarian
- Region code: 2 (PAL)
- Rating: 16 (not recommended under 16)
- Condition: Used — very good; disc and artwork as pictured
Overview
Van Damme versus the wasteland. Cyborg drops the martial-arts star into a plague-ravaged, post-apocalyptic 21st-century America, where civilisation has collapsed into anarchy and disease. He plays Gibson Rickenbauer, a "slinger" — a roaming sword-fighter — who becomes the last hope for a cure that could pull humanity back from the brink.
The plot is lean and brutal: Pearl Prophet, a part-machine woman, carries the knowledge needed to synthesise a vaccine, but a band of cannibal pirates seizes her, intent on holding the cure hostage and seizing what's left of the world. Rickenbauer has to cut through them to save her — and with her, the future of civilisation.
This is prime late-eighties Cannon-era action: directed by Albert Pyun, produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, scored by Kevin Bassinson. It's an early Van Damme star vehicle and a cult favourite among action collectors. This Hungarian Budapest Film edition runs about 86 minutes, with both Hungarian and English audio and Hungarian subtitles — a solid Region 2 disc for the Akció Klasszikusok line.
Interesting Facts
- Cyborg was a Cannon Films production from Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the duo behind much of 1980s action cinema.
- Van Damme's character is named Gibson Rickenbauer — both surnames nodding to the famous guitar brands, a quiet in-joke threaded through the film's character names.
- Director Albert Pyun shot the film on the leftover sets and costumes of two cancelled Cannon projects, including a planned Spider-Man film.
- The cast includes Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn as the villain Fender, and Dayle Haddon as Pearl Prophet.
- It was one of the films that cemented Van Damme as a leading action draw early in his career.
- This edition carries a 2006 Budapest Film cover design over the 1988 Golan-Globus copyright.
Publishers Released in Hungary by Budapest Film Kft. (2006) as part of the Akció Klasszikusok series, catalogue Akció 007. Original film © 1988 Golan-Globus / Cannon Entertainment. Presented in Dolby Digital 2.0, Region 2 PAL, colour, approximately 86 minutes.
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