Cyborg Cop II (1994)
3/10
I can't take the hero seriously when he is sporting such a huge fanny pack...
17 July 2020
I did not have the pleasure of watching the first Cyborg Cop, so I am confused about what was going on honestly. The main character was not a cyborg or technically a cop and when he saw the cyborgs they baffled him making me wonder what the heck happened in the first film? Was the thing just called Cyborg Cop for no reason or did the main guy here simply forget he fought cyborgs or what? I guess I should not delve too deeply into it, because what can one expect from a film where a cyborg gets hit point blank with a shotgun and barely moves a muscle and then seconds later gets lightly kicked by the hero and flies like he got hit by a train?

So, the story starts out blazing! Seriously, the first portion of this film was rather rocking, there were no cyborgs and no cops just a strange bevy of dudes with guns on a truck shooting other guys while topless women and men worked on drugs. I've seen this before in films, they have to be topless to ensure quality or some crap, but you know this is a Hollywood invention to add some boobs to the film as if the drugs were that delicate the women would be wearing hairnets and there would be no pants either. The hero from the first film enters the scene and my first thought, "Why is he wearing a fanny pack?" It's a big one too! A guy gets killed, the main killer apprehended and the guy who was kill has a wife also sporting a big ass fanny pack. With a film like this, the next natural order of things is for the villain to be turned into a cyborg because that always works out and soon the cyborg and his buddies start terrorizing the countryside. I mean that literally, they like run amok at a gas station in the country.

The film had something going during the first portion, but just lost it. The hero guy just does not look heroic to me. Not only does he have a fanny pack he looks like Robert Hays dressed as Eric Bishoff circa 1996. The bad guy as a cyborg talks incoherently then when his old nemesis is seen he talks the same as he used to. For some reason the hero and the woman who has these super weapons that blow the cyborgs up easily plant bombs at a nuclear power plant, why? I mean, one shot from the weapons they were using and the cyborgs were dust, but hey lets save them for later!

So it started off good enough, good enough for a cheesy B movie, but then it just lost it. It does make me wonder what the first film was about and see if it had a cyborg cop or if it didn't. It is obvious the main guy is not a cyborg, so was he just fighting another cyborg that was bad and so never really was a cop or what. The villain here was a much better villain when he was not a cyborg, I mean, the hero pummeled the crap out of the guy and he still kept going, he lost his spark after being turned into a cyborg though he still had his dreams. He literally said first he was going to take control of a city then he would start taking over countries. Dare to dream I say!
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