Cyborg Soldier (2007/First Look DVD)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C- Main Program: C
So many
years after the Terminator films had
their success, there is a fourth film coming and many imitators, with the TV
series subtitled The Sarah Connors
Chronicles felling like one of those rip-offs. So when we got out hands on John Stead’s
imitator Cyborg Soldier (2007) we
expected a disaster and got an unintentionally funny mess with Tiffani Thiessen
trying to toughen up and Bruce Greenwood hanging in there as a robot (Rich
Franklin, trying to do Schwarzenegger Americain) killing machine.
It then
becomes a short 84 minutes of wasting unknown actors and zero chemistry between
Thiessen and Franklin, trotting through the same old formula, but it is the awkward
way they go through it that makes this more watchable as camp by default than I
expected. If you need a good laugh, this
might be the cheesy time killer to check out.
The anamorphically
enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is soft as expected with awkward editing and shots,
while the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix has weak surrounds and problematic dialogue
playback. Extras include previews for
other First Look releases.
- Nicholas Sheffo
