Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Rich Franklin, Tiffani Amber Thiessen
• Directors: John Stead
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Unknown (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Spanish, English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
• DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001AR0106
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #45,052 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
I.S.A.A.C. (Intuitive Synthetic Autonomous Assault Commando), played by former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin, is the first prototype of a confidential "human weapon" program. Once a death-row inmate, he is now a genetically reconstructed, highly trained, deadly assassin whose body and mind have been modified to become a physically regenerative, intellectually superior human being. On the run, I.S.A.A.C. takes Deputy Lindsay Rearden (Tiffani Thiessen; "Beverly Hills, 90210") hostage. Their lives in jeopardy from secret military agents being lead by world-renowned robotic engineer Simon Hart (Bruce Greenwood; I, Robot; National Treasure: Book of Secrets), the deputy and I.S.A.A.C. combine forces to expose the military group constructing these super beings.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Action packed movie!!!, October 30, 2008

By	Movie Man "Movie Man" - See all my reviews

Very gripping sci-fi film. It has a great cast - Rich Frankin from UFC, Tiffani Thiessen from Saved by the Bell and Bruce Greenwood from..... well, just about everything. The whole ensemble does really well together.

This film is action packed from beginning to end. Plenty of suspense. Plenty of action. The whole movie is definitely satisfying and will give you your adrenaline rush fix for the week

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars laughable, October 18, 2008

By	Glenn Bourgeois "Bougie Boy" (Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The only reason why this movie isn't getting 1 star is because it was funny commenting on all the obvious flaws in continuity and it was the best movie we rented that night...305/Restless....The main character is an extreme fighting star... get this movie if your an extreme fan of his...or if you want something to laugh at...eitherwise stay away from this movie.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Screwy Cyborg, March 9, 2009

By	Mike Schorn "Rezo the Dezo" (APO, AE United States) - See all my reviews

"Cyborg Soldier" is a by-the-numbers bad DTV film, and therefore I will review it by-the-numbers.

Story: Isaac (Rich Franklin) is a prototype cyborg soldier who escapes from a government lab and kidnaps a local sheriff (Tiffani Thiessen, "Beverly Hills 90210") en-route to fleeing from a gang of mercenaries hired to bring him back.
Yes, it's a dull take on "Universal Soldier": Isaac is trumped up on nanobots that give him rapid healing capabilities and greater-than-average strength; he's also had his memory wiped, so there are shades of Luc Devereaux via a couple of unexplained flashbacks. Lindsay Reardon, the policewoman, might as well be a blonde reporter for all the use that she is: the fact that she's an officer of the law is largely a moot point, since she requires her share of rescuing. Later on, the film does a slipshod job of explaining Isaac's past and existence, and doesn't even touch on why such a soldier needed to be created.

Action: The film's genre officially reads "action/sci-fi"; while there's plenty of sci-fi as far as the backstory is concerned, "Cyborg" suffers from a decisive lack of action: there is exactly one short, uninspired shootout between Isaac and the mercenaries, and four hand-to-hand fights - three of which do not top fifteen seconds in length and one of which, for lack of a better term, is a chick fight. The only worthwhile encounter is the final Isaac vs. mercenaries battle at the end of the film: while it's not longer than thirty seconds, it shows a basic cinefight know-how that the other fights lacked.
Indeed, this is where the film really surprised me: Rich Franklin is a former UFC champ, so obviously the man knows a thing or two about brawling...but you wouldn't really know by watching the movie. I hate to say so, but it's the ten-second Lindsay Reardon/Janice Fraser (Wendy Anderson, "Sliced") brawl that seems the most spontaneous and natural; during Isaac's fights, every punch and kick looks too predetermined on everybody's part.

Acting: A fairly mixed bag. For starters, Rich Franklin is nothing short of atrocious in his vain attempts to channel Arnold Schwarzenegger; I really don't see him as a budding action hero at all. Luckily, despite her character's general uselessness, Tiffani Thiessen performs decently and does her best to keep the scenes between her and Franklin from going entirely underwater. Bruce Greenwood ("I, Robot") is probably the most interesting and complex character of the bunch as Isaac's creator and eventual bad guy. Wendy Anderson starts off promising but eventually goes off the dramatic deep end when her character has to get a bit intense. Aaron Abrams ("Young People F---ing") has a respectable but thankless role as Greenwood's assistant. Lastly, stuntman Kevin Rushton ("Universal Soldier II") is passable as the lead mercenary but remains nonetheless bland and forgettable.
More so flawed than any of the acting is the script itself, which is filled with lines and events that probably sounded cool in the writers' heads but are silly on-film - like the gem quote "She's a woman!...in charge!" and Franklin's ceaseless Terminator impersonation, as well as Greenwood's way-too-rapid transformation into a villain and the aforementioned all-lady punch-`em-up.

Production: Surprisingly tight, aside from a few weird camera shots during a car scene. The low budget is visible via the fact that the secret government lab is seemingly run by no more than two people and the police department by no more than five. Not much said besides that means not much done wrong.

Essentially, it's a bad movie - plain and simple.