Cyborg 2
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Directed by | Michael Schroeder |
Produced by | Raju Patel Alain Silver |
Written by | Michael Schroeder Mark Geldman Ron Yanover |
Starring | Elias Koteas Angelina Jolie Jack Palance Billy Drago Karen Sheperd Allen Garfield Renee Griffin |
Music by | Peter Allen |
Distributed by | Trimark Pictures |
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Running time
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99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cyborg 2, released in some countries as Glass Shadow, is a 1993 science fiction action film directed by Michael Schroeder and starring Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie, Billy Drago, Karen Sheperd and Jack Palance. It is an unrelated sequel to the 1989 film Cyborg, although footage from the original is used in a dream sequence. It was also Jolie's film debut in a starring role (she had previously made an earlier film as a child actress). It was followed by the 1995 direct-to-video release Cyborg 3: The Recycler.
Plot synopsis
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Androids, called "cyborgs", are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella "Cash" Reese (Jolie) is a prototype cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. She is filled with a liquid explosive called "Glass Shadow". Pinwheel plans to eliminate the entire Kobayashi board of directors using Casella as a suicide bomber to precipitate a hostile takeover of the company and obtain a monopoly over the cyborg market. She is programmed to mimic human senses and emotions such as fear, love, pain and hate. Guided by Mercy (Palance), a renegade prototype cyborg who can communicate through any electronic device, she and her combat trainer Colton Ricks (Koteas) escape the Pinwheel facility so she can avoid self-destruction, something that most corporate espionage cyborgs face. They're relentlessly pursued by Pinwheel's hired killer or "wiretapper", Daniel Bench (Drago).
Cast
- Elias Koteas as Colton "Colt 45" Ricks
- Angelina Jolie as Casella "Cash" Reese
- Jack Palance as Mercy
- Jean-Claude Van Damme as Gibson Rickenbacker (flashback)
- Billy Drago as Danny Bench
- Karen Sheperd as Chen
- Allen Garfield as Martin Dunn
- Renee Griffin as Dreena
- Vincent Klyn as Fender Tremolo (flashback)
Reception
Alan Jones of the Radio Times rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and called it a "Blade Runner-inspired violent fantasy".[1] Entertainment Weekly selected Cyborg 2 as Jolie's worst film.[2]
Jolie has said that after she saw the film, she "went home and got sick".[3]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Cyborg 2 at IMDb
- Cyborg 2 at Rotten Tomatoes
- Cyborg 2 at AllMovie
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