Cyborg X

Let's just be honest with one another, we all know that with a movie such as this, then we all know that it is going to be one of those movies. You know, the low budget movies of the questionable kind. But still, we keep returning to movies such as this out of some morbid fascination with the cheesiness of them or the hopes that they might actually turn out to be watchable and entertaining.

"Cyborg X", however, didn't prove to be much of either...

Set in a dystopian future where a radical weapons manufacturer is overthrown by a virus, the movie pits man against machine. It does sound interesting enough, right? Indeed. But then you start watching the movie and it quickly turns to something quite different.

The first indicator of this being one of those infamous low budget and cheesy movies is that it has Danny Trejo as one of the leads. Sure, the man has some good enough movies to his name, but he is not really known for making impressive movies most of the time. And "Cyborg X" is just another one of those questionable movies notched to his belt.

"Cyborg X" is filled with characters that you care very little about, if you actually care at all, and that transcends into a pointlessness to the movie. And that pointlessness is further cemented as the concept idea for the storyline is just one that is not particularly believable.

Furthermore, it seems that the writer and director K. King has been watching a bit too many sci-fi movies such as "Terminator" around the time of writing the storyline for this movie, because there are so many similarities to that movie. Similarities or possibly just a matter of lack of originality and just settling on something that has been shown in countless other movies already.

For a Sci-Fi movie, then the effects in "Cyborg X" were mediocre, and here I am talking about the practical and special effects. And a Sci-Fi movie should have proper effects in order to be more convincing and believable. But while we are on the topic of effects, then the green screen effects in "Cyborg X" were so lousy and poor that they were just laughable to look at.

I was very amused with the approach the special effects team had opted to go with the look on the cyborgs in the movie. They looked like blatant knock-offs of Bane from "The Dark Knight Rises", and to make matters worse then they were growling like hunting lions. Seriously, this was the best they could muster?

The most enjoyable thing about "Cyborg X" was a scene where one of the surviving humans who were fighting against the weaponized cyborgs got his legs blown off. Now, that was not the funny part, not cool to laugh at horrific injuries. But the funny part was the scene where he was dragging/lifting himself along on the ground to battle the cyborgs; here you could clearly see the sand shift underneath him as his legs, that were obviously just dug into the sand, clearly indicating that this was a very cheap and poorly executed trick of hiding the actors legs.

I must admit that my focus often drifted away from the screen, and even so you never missed out on anything, and you were right up to speed with the movie once you returned, because nothing much of any greater significance or importance happened throughout the course of the movie.

If you enjoy Sci-Fi action movies, then do yourself a favor and stay well clear of "Cyborg X".

Only two good things there is in this outburst: secondary sex characteristics of female lead and athletic shirtless figure of male lead. But even this frivolous, yet evanescent values gets annulled by everyone's, including hers, constant wailings and his unbelievably stupid behavior. Trashy trash, don't waste your time.

i came in expecting an atrociously bad movie .. not sure why but i have been burned before.. but hey, its got Danny Trejo in it so i took a leap of faith.

Very limited CGI, which i could expect for movie with this budget, but the costume/prosthetics were not bad, sound was decent, and it was pretty well shot.

Limited story, Danny said his usual 20 words, and some wooden acting hurt it of course, but as far as by-the-books Cyborg Action movies go i found it entertaining. Don't know if i would watch it twice, but i would like to see the director get a bigger budget. Lead male actor was pretty decent too .. Lead female actor was OK but nothing to write home about.

Good use of scenery too for the limited locations they used.

All in all worth a watch, at least once.

In a post-apocalyptic future humanity war against an army of cyber virus infected hybrid man-machines created by X-Corp.

Director Kevin King offers a low-budget exploitation flick which appeals especially those who enjoy women wielding weapons and ripped men without tops.

To King's credit many of the gore and special effects are pretty good. Rocky Myers and Eve Mauro are notable. Danny Trejo is his usually staple self in the short amount of screen time.

Cyborg X combines existing themes and tropes from sci-fi film history and pop culture. If it was 1992 this would have been a sure fire straight to video hit, the problem is that the Cyborg, Terminator and Mad Max cash-in has been worn tire thin.

King 's creative eye is evident and he manages to pull together a consistent film for the budget with the help of Myers performance.

Overall, don't expect Terminator or even Cyborg, think slicker Nemesis or APEX or more recently Battle of the Damned and you won't be disappointed.

Some scenes are little B-movie styled. Movie is good way to get rid of time. Cyborg = bodybuilder covered with blood. And blood everywhere. Dark places to film, and i waited some high tech center, but no, just old warehouses.

Yeah, Water, Blood, half naked ladies, bouncing breasts and big weapons (sometimes).

If you have time and nothing to do, why not.