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Born of flesh, turned to steel.

Cyborg Cop is a 1993 American science fiction action film featuring John Rhys-Davies.

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.

The film received two sequels, 1994's Cyborg Cop II and 1995's Cyborg Cop III.

The David Bradley who stars is not the same as David Bradley the British actor.


This film contains examples of:

  • Action Prologue: The Ryan brothers dealing with a Hostage Situation.
  • Arrested for Heroism: Jack is fired from the force and nearly arrested because he killed a powerful family's son for taking a girl hostage.
  • Big Bad: Professor Joachim Kessel, the drug baron who made Phillip a cyborg.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Kessel attempts to sell the cyborgs to a Government Conspiracy out to assassinate the president of the unnamed country the film is set in. However, the film focuses far more on Kessel and they're killed off very quickly in the climax.
  • The Cartel: Kessel makes his money in the drug business, but is working to go into weapons.
  • Celebrity Resemblance: A coroner says Jack looks like Jim Morrison.
  • Decoy Protagonist: 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.
  • Dirty Cop: Kessel has a bunch of cops on his payroll, from immigration to drug enforcement.
  • Frame-Up: Kessel has Jack framed for drug trafficking in an attempt to get him off his back.
  • "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Jack desperately tries to appeal to Phillip's humanity in the climax. Luckily, it works, and the two take Kessel down together.
  • Immoral Journalist: Jack had his life ruined by the Carmichael newspapers after killing one of their own for taking hostages.
  • Logical Weakness: 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.
  • Night of the Living Mooks: Kessel makes his cyborgs out of corpses.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Nobody is simultaneously a cyborg and a cop in the movie. However, a cyborg is made out of a dead cop's body.
  • "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Kessel makes the people whose bodies he claims for cyborg material look like victims of voodoo rituals.
  • Superhuman Trafficking: Kessel intends to sell his cyborgs to the highest bidder.
  • Wolverine Claws: The cyborgs have retractable blades on their fingertips.

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