CyberTracker 2 Reviews

In this futuristic cop movie--a poor rip-off of Schwarzenegger vehicles such as TERMINATOR and TRUE LIES--an undercover officer battles corrupt politicians and international arms dealers who are using nearly indestructible androids to take over California. The cop and his wife spend most of the movie trying to elude, uncover, and finally destroy their "Cyber Tracker" android doubles which are carrying out murder and mayhem in their names. In the opening scene, Eric Phillips (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) is saved from certain death by Cyber Tracker 9 (Jim Maniaci), an android cop. While this experience convinces Eric of the worth of androids, his wife Connie (Stacie Foster), a television reporter, fears that androids could wreak havoc if they fell into the wrong hands. While kidnapped, her worst nightmare is realized as an android impersonating her kills the governor. Connie eventually escapes from her kidnappers, killing them in the process. She then joins her spouse to combat those individuals who have fashioned her cyber-clone and an evil Cyber Tracker copy of Eric. With the help of police buddy Swayne (Tony Burson), Connie and Eric discover that the Cyber Trackers have been built by arms dealers to replace a good governor with a bad one. The dynamic husband-and-wife team manage to blow up one evil Cyber Tracker, freeze another, and electrocute a third, thereby preventing the oncoming crisis. With a screenplay that seems to have emerged from the bottom tray of a photocopy machine, CYBERTRACKER 2 is nothing more than a cheap imitation of the older and better ROBOCOP movies--and a bad cheap imitation at that. A little more camp would have gone a long way in this film, especially given the humorous opportunities provided by the two double-identities. A good indication of what happens instead is the number of stuntmen director Richard Pepin uses in this film: 48. Two tow companies are also credited, apparently necessary to drag away all those bumped, bruised, and blazing cars. The movie does elicit a few laughs, however, such as when one android apologizes to an "inconvenienced citizen" for stealing and destroying his truck, promising that "emotional distress compensation" will be provided. It seems that--made in the image of their evil politically-ambitious creators--even androids aren't immune from bureaucratic jargon. Another question that this film engenders is: why place kick-boxer Don Wilson--whose acting is less than stellar--in the lead if he doesn't throw a single kick until the end of the movie? The answer is certainly bad judgement, which is something you, too, will be guilty of if you bother to rent this one. The final analysis: A virtual Cyber Snorer. (Violence, adult situations.)