Written by: Richard Pierce on January 28, 2010.

Way back in 1993, director Sam Firstenberg (American Ninja 1 & 2, American Samurai) decided to take a break from making movies with the word American in the title and do a Terminator style action/science-fiction flick.

The result was Cyborg Cop, starring David Bradley.

Bradley was famous for being the guy who replaced Michael Dudikoff in the popular, and amazingly awesome, American Ninja franchise, a series which Im sure well cover soon.

The following year, hot off Cyborg Cops success (a record seventeen rentals), a sequel came out, again starring David Bradley, called Cyborg Soldier.

Remember: it was 1994. Terminator 2 had just been an enormous success, so making your title Cyborg (Something) or Robo (Something) was an easy way to cash in.

Yo, dude. That movie T2 was totally radical. But have you heard of this new one, Cyborg Pool Cleaning Guy? Sounds tubular!

Cyborg Soldier opens with David Bradleys character, Jack Ryan (ironically the same name of the popular Tom Clancy character), taking out bad guy Starkraven, who is arrested and later turned into a cyborg by the government.

Starkraven escapes, changes his name to Spartacus and sets out with his army of cyborg soldiers (Aha! We have a title!) to destroy Jack.

David Bradley is a great martial artist and one of the better karate-guys-turned-actors of the era. He delivers a solid tough-guy performance, despite the fact that through half the movie, he is wearing a freaking fanny pack!

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