Cybernator (1991)

Excellent but underrated film

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Originally written on December 11, 2008.I had gotten this at Movie Exchange just a week before thanksgiving. I saw this along with another movie, Hyperspace. I paid only $1.70 for both films....and in terms of Cybernator, I still think I paid WAY too much for this travesty. It's horrible, boring, and completely stupid and unoriginal.Cybernator takes place in the year 2010, where the Earth has become a world where the economy has collapsed, the government has fallen, and all power has fallen under military control as military trained cyborg assassins have turned against them. It all starts off with a Crooked Senator and his hooker girlfriend entering a hotel room. They're about to start knockin' boots when the hooker is killed by cyborgs and the senator gets a similar fate. Then cut to some strip club where dumb music is playing and then it starts to focus on our main character, L.A. Police Officer Brent McCord (Whom like one reviewer said, looks like Corey Feldman crossed with John Stamos) and his partner, Jim Weaver (Our token black guy.) Unfortunately, Jim gets killed in the middle of the movie which leaves Brent to work things out himself. Brent later discovers something about his past, along with his girlfriend, who doesn't really look that pretty. The cyborgs are lead by Colonel Peck, played by William Smith from Maniac Cop, who can't even save this movie from being so awful.Overall, the movie just plain sucks. On November 20, 2008, this film gained itself a #2 spot on my worst movies list (The first of course, being Howling II, the third being Brave Frog.) If anything the C.I.A. should use this sewage leak of a film on terrorists.Avoid this "movie" at all costs.

Somebody else said it, and I'll agree: Robert Rundle is the new Ed Wood. I seriously want to know how this movie got made. It's absolutely terrible, and I mean that in every possible way. The acting, writing, production, sets... it's all so cheap and half-assed and absolutely wonderful to watch. If you're looking for a movie to put on after the party dies down a bit and there's just a handful of people left, all wasted and continuing to get wasted, this is the one. It's probably less fun to watch by yourself than with a room full of people, but regardless, this movie is an absolute joy to watch. That is, if you like bad movies. And I do.

I was surprised to see that six people actually voted this a 10 rating. Surprised because I didn't think there were six people on the entire crew.This movie redefines the phrase "low tech." Set in a world where cyborgs move among us, the sets, costumes and props can best be described as "sixth grade drama club." There are some entertaining things about the movie, however. Most of the acting is hilarious, which would be great if it were a comedy.The casting is sub-par, even for such a cheapo flick. You have to suspect that more than a few of the actors were also investors. If not, the casting director should be keelhauled under a moving Hummer. It's also likely that a substantial portion of the budget came from investors who paid extra to have their scenes cut after viewing the finished product.Lonnie Schuyler as the lead male is deliciously bad. Cult bad. A fully accredited graduate of the raise-your-eyebrow-and-snarl school of acting. I'm happy to see that he has had a long career (no doubt due to this masterpiece) starring in such classics as Legend of Skull Canyon and Hell's Paradox. Hopefully some day there'll be a Lonnie Schuyler Festival.To say he stands out in a cast loaded with bad actors is no empty claim. This flick packs wall-to-wall ham. There are, to be fair, two good actors in the movie. Two chicks sitting in the strip club audience, on screen for all of ten seconds, while a hard-bodied lovely flails like a crippled baboon in front of the cheesiest backdrop ever featured in a film (or a strip club).There is one performance which is not to be missed. Approximately sixty two minutes into this epic, the director serves up a three hundred pound belly dancer, shaking her blubber in a skid row alley. This scene alone will qualify Cybernator as sure fire party viewing for 10 year old boys.I am making it my life's quest to hunt down all of director Robert Rundle's other films. He is the new Ed Wood.

This movie is quite possibly the signle worst movie ever created. Not only does it look like it was filmed using camcorder for a high school production class, but the acting is below that of most invertebrates.How MST3K missed this one I'll never know.