Cyborg Cop

Cyborg Cop
Cyborg Cop
	Official VHS cover
Directed by	Sam Firstenberg
Written by	Greg Latter
Produced by	Danny Lerner
Starring	David Bradley; John Rhys-Davies; Todd Jensen; Alonna Shaw; Ron Smerczak
Edited by	Alan Patillo
Production; company	Millennium Films
Distributed by	Vidmark Entertainment
Release date	1993;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cyborg Cop (theatrically released in the Philippines as Universal Warrior) is a 1993 American direct-to-video science-fiction action film starring David Bradley, John Rhys-Davies, Todd Jensen, Alonna Shaw, and Rufus Swart as the Cyborg. It was directed by Sam Firstenberg and written by Greg Latter. It is the first installment in the Cyborg Cop film series. The film has two sequels, Cyborg Cop II and Cyborg Cop III, released in 1995 as Terminal Impact.^[1]

Plot

Ex-DEA officer Jack Ryan has quit his job following a terrible shoot-out. Jack Ryan receives a message for help from his brother Phillip, who had been employed for a dangerous military mission in the Caribbean. He is unaware that his brother is being used for an unprecedented scientific experiment: Professor Joachim Kessel has developed a technique to turn any soldier into a Cyborg - a half-human, half-robot creature - virtually indestructible. Thanks to his army of Cyborgs, Kessel wants to take over the Caribbean, and Jack will become a kind of "Cop of the Cyborgs" to stop the man.

Cast

David Bradley as DEA Agent Jack Ryan
Todd Jensen as Phillip Ryan
John Rhys-Davies as Professor Joachim Kessel
Alonna Shaw as Cathy
Ron Smerczak as Callan
Rufus Swart as Cyborg
Anthony Fridjon as Hogan
Shalom Kenan as Steve
Robert Whitehead as Dr. Stechman
Steven Leader as Frankie
Robert Reynolds as Johnson
Ernest Ndlovu as Sergeant

Release

Cyborg Cop was released direct-to-video in the United States in 1994. In the Philippines, the film was theatrically released by Solar Films as Universal Warrior on August 26, 1993.^[2]

Critical reception

Critical reception was generally, although not universally, poor. Halliwell's Film Guide, for example, described it as "dim standard robot action fodder" with a "violent, cliché-ridden plot".^[3]

References

^ "Terminal Impact (1995)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
^ "Grand Opening August 26!". Manila Standard. Kamahalan Publishing Corp. August 22, 1993.
^ "Cyborg Cop - LoveFilm.com". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2009-04-06.