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2 | [[caption-width-right:220:Born of flesh, turned to steel.]] |
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4 | '''''Cyborg Cop''''' is a 1993 {{American|Films}} {{science fiction|Films}} {{action|Genre}} film featuring Creator/JohnRhysDavies. |
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6 | Jack Ryan is a former DEA agent dragged back into the game. You see, his brother Phillip has sent out a distress signal, and only he can save him from capture by a cartel. Unfortunately, when Jack gets there, Phillip has already been turned into a cyborg assassin. Now brother must fight brother to prevent cyborgs from dominating the drug scene. |
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8 | The film received two sequels, 1994's ''Cyborg Cop II'' and 1995's ''Cyborg Cop III''. |
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10 | The David Bradley who stars is not the same as Creator/DavidBradley the British actor. |
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12 | !!This film contains examples of: |
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14 | * ActionPrologue: The Ryan brothers dealing with a HostageSituation. |
15 | * ArrestedForHeroism: Jack is fired from the force and nearly arrested because he killed a powerful family's son for taking a girl hostage. |
16 | * BigBad: Professor Joachim Kessel, the drug baron who made Phillip a cyborg. |
17 | * BigBadWannabe: Kessel attempts to sell the cyborgs to a GovernmentConspiracy out to assassinate the president of the unnamed country the film is set in. However, the film focuses far more on Kessel and [[spoiler:they're killed off very quickly in the climax]]. |
18 | * TheCartel: Kessel makes his money in the drug business, but is working to go into weapons. |
19 | * CelebrityResemblance: A coroner says Jack looks like [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]]. |
20 | * DecoyProtagonist: The first 20 minutes focus on Phillip Ryan raiding Kessel's base. However, he's captured, killed and turned into a cyborg, and his brother Jack has to take over to save the day. |
21 | * DirtyCop: Kessel has a bunch of cops on his payroll, from immigration to drug enforcement. |
22 | * FrameUp: Kessel has Jack framed for drug trafficking in an attempt to get him off his back. |
23 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Jack desperately tries to appeal to Phillip's humanity in the climax. Luckily, it works, and the two take Kessel down together.]] |
24 | * ImmoralJournalist: Jack had his life ruined by the Carmichael newspapers after killing one of their own for taking hostages. |
25 | * LogicalWeakness: The cyborgs can only be defeated by sufficient electricity shorting out the software that powers them, in which case they're out of commission until they can be reprogrammed. |
26 | * NightOfTheLivingMooks: Kessel makes his cyborgs out of corpses. |
27 | * NonIndicativeName: Nobody is simultaneously a cyborg and a cop in the movie. However, a cyborg is made out of a dead cop's body. |
28 | * ScoobyDooHoax: Kessel makes the people whose bodies he claims for cyborg material look like victims of voodoo rituals. |
29 | * SuperhumanTrafficking: Kessel intends to sell his cyborgs to the highest bidder. |
30 | * WolverineClaws: The cyborgs have retractable blades on their fingertips. |
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