Cybernator (1991)

One of my all time favorites.

Great Film overall

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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.

I have over 100 movies in my "too be watched" pile. I know there are some good ones in there but for some reason I am drawn to the crap. If you can believe it, CYBERNATOR is worse than the crap. You've heard of bottom of the barrel? Well, if you pick up that barrel and dig about 10 feet into the ground – that is where you will find CYBERNATOR.The future is now and, oddly enough, it looks a lot like the late 80s. Director Robert Rundle definitely shot CYBERNATOR on the fast and cheap. He uses rote camera setups and has a stiff directorial style that would make Amir (SAMURAI COP) Shervan jealous. Sets are re-dressed over and over to appear as different rooms (the tops of the flats can even be seen sometimes). However, shoddiness can be forgiven if a clever script is used. Keep dreaming. The script, by Rundle and producer/co-star Ed Sanchez, features amazingly cliché and laughable dialogue exchanges. My favorite:Snitching lab assistant: "Meet me at the alley way at Hollywood and Vine." All knowing cop: "Yeah, we know the place."Lead Lonnie Schuyler is hands down the worst actor I have ever seen. Seriously, my dog conveys emotions better. Looking like a cross between Corey Feldman and John Stamos (and sporting some big 80s hair to boot), Schuyler delivers some of the funniest facial expression while trying to act dramatic. You would think he is acting in a spoof the way he acts. Schuyler is complemented in the horrific acting department by female lead Christina Peralta as love interest/lounge singer Blue. Her swaying during a lip synched musical number is a sight to behold. Also, watch for the scene where they surreptitiously break into a building at nighttime and she is wearing a black turtle neck and short jean shorts. The only saving grace is the reliable William Smith as evil Colonel Peck. While his screen time ads up to just under 10 minutes, Smith's gruff voice is a welcome reprieve from the amateur hour on display. I hope he was paid and paid well.Amazingly, director Robert Russell failed upwards and went on to make more films. Also noteworthy in his cinematic canon is the trash classic THE DIVINE ENFORCER (1992) starring Erik Estrada, Jim Brown, Robert Z'Dar, Don Stroud and a very drunk Jan Michael Vincent (whose lines you can actually see taped to the inside of a newspaper!). Thankfully, he keeps Schuyler out of the picture.

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.

"Cybernator" is great fun, if you don't take this all to earnest. It's a trashy movie with cheap special effects but it is a must for fans of William Smith. He has just three appearances als Colonel Peck but they are really worth to watch.