Short, crude and, as Martha Stewart once described it, "Gayer than Frisco", it plays like so many other bad Mad Max retreads today. Not one to revisit, but to be fair, both Pyun and van Damme have made much worse movies than this.

There was literally almost nothing good about this. The action was sluggish the acting was terrible and the plot sucked. I suppose it has a few laughs if you want to see Van Damme make his trademark constipated face.

Pretty lame stuff. I was looking for martial arts and got some, but there's a lot of garbage to wade through before finding any gold.

One of Van Damme's worst (and that is saying something). Poor production value, poor writing, editing, casting, directing and acting. The only thing it really has going for it is an interesting story behind the scenes where the makers, including JCVD were sued for someone losing the sight in one eye during the making.

Good action flick

Cheese on an unprecedented level. The cyborg is in the movie for all of 10 minutes and doesn't do anything cyborg-ish. She just has some data to be returned. They could have ditched her from the cast and replaced her with a briefcase. JCVD in "Briefcase" would probably have been a better movie. Splits, roundhouse kicks and JCVD's cumface combined with camp post-apocalyptic warriors. Terrible but laughable fun.

I enjoyed it as a young child. I don't enjoy it for anything other than the camp factor now.

I can only recommend maybe one or two stunts- the most memorable is Van Damme's splits overhead in a sewer. However, the production values for this late 80s disaster are so unbelievably terrible that you can only laugh at the mayhem. The villains, costumes, music, writing, effects and doomed look at the future are so awful - it's like 'Terminator' for dummies spawned from dummies.

One of the worst ever made. Then again, what'd you expect from Pyun, one of the worst directors of all time? Looks cheap and sounds cheap. Released during the death knell of Cannon Pictures (R.I.P.). Ridiculously, all the characters are named after guitar models, companies, or equipment.

Damme's inept acting meets Pyun's inept directing.

Every postapocalyptic cliche in the book is trotted out. Inexplicably popular in some quarters.

pretty bad

A fun, quality action film; exotic sci-fi setting, solid pacing, and some well-choreographed fights including JCVD and Dolph Lundgren. That's really all one needs in a pure entertainment film. I just laugh at some of the irrelevant reviews here; a mindless action film can be good or bad, but things like "lack of story" don't apply. After all, wasn't that true of "Avatar", "The Hangover", and many other recent films highly rated by these same people?

Craptacular SCI FI fun, with Van Damme doing thew splits in just about every movie he made at the time. The sequel seems to have NO relation to this (And I think is Angelina Jolie's first flick) Toe knee :-)

It seemed much more well-made when I was a kid, but having re-watched it, it still has enjoyable things about it, but it's very corny and obviously low-budget in almost every way.

Solid action movie, one of the better Van Damme Movies. But Bloodsport ist unbeatable

Oh no, I remember this. Van Damme gets crucified or something but it doesn't kill him or whatever and I think he has a blade on his foot and he kicks a guy with his foot-blade? Those are probably the best parts of the movie.