Main Cast: Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie
Release Year: 1993
Country: US
Run Time: 99 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
This sci-fi actioner is set in the year 2074. The story is framed by the war between the two international corporate giants, Pinwheel Robotics and Kobayashi, responsible for manufacturing the cyborgs that 21st century technology has become dependent upon. In fact, most of the world is being run by the sophisticated androids. The conflict turns violent when the Kobayashi cyborgs begin methodically killing their competition. To stop them, the head of Pinwheel, Martin Dunn, creates the perfect computer housed in the body of a beautiful woman. The cyborg, Casella Reese, has a strange fluid flowing within in her that when activated will cause her to literally explode should she have an orgasm; Dunn designed her to infiltrate Kobayashi and assassinate the CEO. The real problems begin when Casella, who is also equipped with human emotions and independent thought, falls in love with her martial arts teacher, Colt Ricks. When she learns of her upcoming suicide mission, she and Colt, with the help of their informer, the cyborg mercenary Mercy, try to reach Mombasa where unlicensed androids can live in peace. Unfortunately, they must first escape their city and the cyborg killers who pursue them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Billy Drago - Danny Bench; Robert Dryer - Pinwheel Exec #2; John Durbin - Tech #1 - Observation Room; Allen Garfield - Martin Dunn; Renee Griffin - Dreena; Linus Huffman - Captain Choy Fook; Sheryl Mary Lewis - Tech #3 - Corridor; Sven Ole Thorsen - Doorman; Tracey Walter - Wild Card; Jim Youngs - Pinwheel Exec #1; Galen Yuen - Server; David Schroeder - Exec #5; Elizabeth Sung - Palmist; Ric Young - Bobby Lin; Rick Hill - Team Leader; Patrick O'Connell - Tech #2 - Observation Room
Credit
Robert Lecky - Co-producer, Jon Turtle - Co-producer, Kristen Anacker - Costume Designer, Michael Schroeder - Director, Sharad Patel - Executive Producer, Jeffrey Konvitz - Executive Producer, Peter Allen - Composer (Music Score), K.N.B. EFX Group - Makeup, Mony Mansano - Makeup, Elisabeth A. Scott - Production Designer, Jamie Thompson - Cinematographer, Raju Patel - Producer, Alain Silver - Producer, Mark D. Geldman - Screen Story, Ronald Yanover - Screen Story, Michael Schroeder - Screenwriter, Mark D. Geldman - Screenwriter
Cyborg 2, released in some countries as Glass Shadow, is a 1993science fiction action film directed by Michael Schroeder. It is the direct sequel to the 1989 film Cyborg. It is notable as the first film to feature Angelina Jolie in a starring role (she had previously made one earlier film as a child actress). It was followed by the 1994direct-to-video release Cyborg 3: The Recycler.
Plot Summary
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by the USA's Pinwheel Electronics and Japan's Kobayashi Robotics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a top-of-the-line cyborg developed for corporate espionage and is programmed with the "Glass Shadow" program, meant to mimic human senses and emotions such as fear, love, pain and hatred. However, Glass Shadow is also an explosive that runs through her entire circuitry. Guided by the renegade prototype cyborg Mercy, who can communicate through any television screen, she and combat trainer Colton Ricks escape the Pinwheel facility so she can avoid her fate of self-destruction, one that faces most corporate espionage cyborgs.
