Classic Young Jolie
Added 11/5/2008
It's cheesy, it's kinda lame, sure. Yet, there's Angie in her first big role. I watch movies like Tomb Raider 2 and Wanted now, and then I look back at her early career, such as in this campy thriller. It's a fun movie, if only because we can see how far Jolie's career has progressed. Changeling, by the way, is fantastic. Hopefully she won't retire just yet.
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Far from the first one
Added 9/13/2008
This movie is a bad sequels like many other sequels out there. Original Cyborg was awesome! This one blows! Seeing a young tender Angelina Jolie was great, especially in that scene with what's his face...Other than that, I wasted an hour and a half of my life watching this. On the other hand, Jolie's first film, which I hope is this one, was enough to make me watch this and the fact that Cyborg 1 was good enough for producers to make a second. Good thing I didn't buy this! lol
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The Soul Is In The Software
Added 8/4/2008
I'll watch damn near anything with Jack Palance or Billy Drago. But a film that has both of them? I'm there. Even if it is Cyborg 2! The original Cyborg with VanDamme had it's bit of entertainment value, but will certainly never be considered a GOOD movie by any means. It's quite easy to assume that a sequel would be totally rotten.
Strangely, it isn't. In fact, it's not bad at all. If you ask me, it surpasses Cyborg(not too difficult of a task anyway).
Cash(Angelina Jolie) is literally a walking timebomb. She's a new cyborg model designed to infiltrate and destroy a competing cyborg manufacturer. She's also equipped with feelings, so naturally she doesn't want to blow up. Instead she falls in love with her martial arts trainer, Colt(Elias Koteas). Colt and Cash escape from the evil corporation called Pinwheel, and set out to find a known community where it's not illegal to love and boink a cyborg. This plan is set in motion by a spectral character named Mercy(Jack Palance, baby!) who can appear practically everywhere as long is there is a television to project himself on. Mercy is head of a type of revolutionary group who has their own reasons for wanting to see Pinwheel destroyed. Apparently he sees Colt and Cash as the catalyst for his plan. Plus he has a soft spot for their romance coz he was in the same boat once. Pinwheel enlist two assassins to find the couple, kill Colt and capture Cash. One is a tough cyborg chick, and the other a disfigured psychotic played by Billy Drago. Most of the film is a chase through smoky, Blade Runner-ish streets and alleys.
This movie might appeal to Angelina Jolie enthusiasts. She spends most of the film leaping, flipping, kicking and trying to look cute. Personally, that lemon sucking pout doesn't do squat for me. Brad can have her. I'd like the movie just as much if Cash were played by Audrey Hepburn, Shannon Tweed or Kathy Bates.
Elias Koteas is an actor I always enjoy watching even though I don't run out to specifically see the films he's in. He's decent enough in a rather average action tough guy role. Billy Drago is at his over-the-top psychotic best. He's doing some major scenery chewing whenever he's on screen. I love that guy!
Palance isn't given much to do. We don't actually see much of him at all. We really only see his mouth on a T.V. screen for the most part. The movie does make good use of that cool voice of his.
I'm not gonna say that Cyborg 2 is some kind of triumph of the sci-fi/action genre. A lot of the concepts seem pieced together from other sci-fi films, and it suffers from the typical action cliches. Regardless of that, for some reason this movie comes off as highly entertaining, way more entertaining than it should be. Strange how that works out sometimes.
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19 yr old Angelina, enough said
Added 3/4/2008
This movie was overall so-so. If you happen to catch it on cable tv, its worth a watch but I wouldn't sprint to the rental store to get it. On the other hand, I believe, this flick has Angelina Jolie's first nude scene (if your in to that then I DO suggest sprinting to the rental store). This movie seemed to substitute nakedness for violence throughout. Both movies in the cyborg series are practically unrelated so if you've missed the first (I highly recommend you see it though) you wont be out of the loop...
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This is a sequel?
Added 2/27/2008
It escapes all reason sometimes when someone decides to make a sequel to a movie. It's even worse when the sequel is in no way related to the original. This is what we have with Cyborg 2. You could have called the movie anything and nobody would have known the difference. It's as if they tagged it onto the original Cyborg movie to get people who liked the first one to come back. Shame on you guys for doing this because not only have you made a weak movie but you try to sell it off as a sequel just like a snake oil salesman. Cyborg 2 is not worth much of anybody's time, which is sad considering something actually could have been done with the franchise.
The plot is actually interesting and is something I would expect to see from a Blade Runner type cyberpunk film. Corporate greed going too far in a high tech dystopic society tends to bring out some interesting developments. The problem is they don't do anything with this plot. Once the main characters find out what they need to do the movie just goes through the motions. Another thing about it is it's not even related to the last movie. Though they try to make the post apocalyptic look the same as Cyborg in some places but you also have the Blade Runner-esque cities that don't really match the original themes. They don't even mention stuff from the last movie like the plague or what happened to the last cyborg. They aren't even talking about the same kind of cyborgs here! The last movie they were a little bit human. Here they are all robot. It's not a sequel.
At least the villains in this movie have stronger motivations than the last. Too bad the subsequent actions don't make any sense. I mean if you wanted to get back a very important cyborg would you send two totally different bounty hunter types to fight amongst themselves over it? These bounty hunters are also very two-dimensional. No matter how much they try to give them depth it just doesn't work. About the only truly good thing about this movie are Jack Palance and his mysterious persona in this movie. This is one piece of the movie that is truly neat. I do like seeing Angelina Jolie and Elias Kotias and what they do with the limited amount of material they had to work with, but Jack is still tops on this one.
Cyborg 2 actually could have been good, but it lost cohesion less than halfway through. Aside from some quick clips from the last movie this one has absolutely no connection with the original Cyborg film. I can only recommend this one to people who are really interested in cyberpunk type plots but don't mind it if those plots fall flat on their feet. The rest of you might as well pass this one up.
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Classic Young Jolie
Added 11/5/2008
It's cheesy, it's kinda lame, sure. Yet, there's Angie in her first big role. I watch movies like Tomb Raider 2 and Wanted now, and then I look back at her early career, such as in this campy thriller. It's a fun movie, if only because we can see how far Jolie's career has progressed. Changeling, by the way, is fantastic. Hopefully she won't retire just yet.
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Far from the first one
Added 9/13/2008
This movie is a bad sequels like many other sequels out there. Original Cyborg was awesome! This one blows! Seeing a young tender Angelina Jolie was great, especially in that scene with what's his face...Other than that, I wasted an hour and a half of my life watching this. On the other hand, Jolie's first film, which I hope is this one, was enough to make me watch this and the fact that Cyborg 1 was good enough for producers to make a second. Good thing I didn't buy this! lol
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The Soul Is In The Software
Added 8/4/2008
I'll watch damn near anything with Jack Palance or Billy Drago. But a film that has both of them? I'm there. Even if it is Cyborg 2! The original Cyborg with VanDamme had it's bit of entertainment value, but will certainly never be considered a GOOD movie by any means. It's quite easy to assume that a sequel would be totally rotten.
Strangely, it isn't. In fact, it's not bad at all. If you ask me, it surpasses Cyborg(not too difficult of a task anyway).
Cash(Angelina Jolie) is literally a walking timebomb. She's a new cyborg model designed to infiltrate and destroy a competing cyborg manufacturer. She's also equipped with feelings, so naturally she doesn't want to blow up. Instead she falls in love with her martial arts trainer, Colt(Elias Koteas). Colt and Cash escape from the evil corporation called Pinwheel, and set out to find a known community where it's not illegal to love and boink a cyborg. This plan is set in motion by a spectral character named Mercy(Jack Palance, baby!) who can appear practically everywhere as long is there is a television to project himself on. Mercy is head of a type of revolutionary group who has their own reasons for wanting to see Pinwheel destroyed. Apparently he sees Colt and Cash as the catalyst for his plan. Plus he has a soft spot for their romance coz he was in the same boat once. Pinwheel enlist two assassins to find the couple, kill Colt and capture Cash. One is a tough cyborg chick, and the other a disfigured psychotic played by Billy Drago. Most of the film is a chase through smoky, Blade Runner-ish streets and alleys.
This movie might appeal to Angelina Jolie enthusiasts. She spends most of the film leaping, flipping, kicking and trying to look cute. Personally, that lemon sucking pout doesn't do squat for me. Brad can have her. I'd like the movie just as much if Cash were played by Audrey Hepburn, Shannon Tweed or Kathy Bates.
Elias Koteas is an actor I always enjoy watching even though I don't run out to specifically see the films he's in. He's decent enough in a rather average action tough guy role. Billy Drago is at his over-the-top psychotic best. He's doing some major scenery chewing whenever he's on screen. I love that guy!
Palance isn't given much to do. We don't actually see much of him at all. We really only see his mouth on a T.V. screen for the most part. The movie does make good use of that cool voice of his.
I'm not gonna say that Cyborg 2 is some kind of triumph of the sci-fi/action genre. A lot of the concepts seem pieced together from other sci-fi films, and it suffers from the typical action cliches. Regardless of that, for some reason this movie comes off as highly entertaining, way more entertaining than it should be. Strange how that works out sometimes.
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