Manborg |
Canada • 2011 • 70m •
  • Directed by: Steven Kostanski. • Starring: Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks, Meredith Sweeney, Conor Sweeney, Ludwig Lee, Jeremy Gillespie, Andrea Karr, Mike Kostanski, Ivan Henwood, William O'Donnell, Brian Edward Roach, Bobby Yee, Mark Pinder. • Music by: Brian Wiacek.      A soldier, brought back to life as a cyborg, fights alongside a band of adventurers against demon hordes in a dystopian future.
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Although it's not meant to be taken seriously, one has to admire some of the actors for playing it straight, which is the right way to play this sort of material in the first place. The whole thing is a marvel of visual design; it often looks like a video game. It's been stylized to a great degree by director producer editor effects artist actor Steven Kostanski, and does have an agreeable sense of humour. One of the baddies is a goon named The Baron (Jeremy Gillespie), who pines after the adorably cute Mina.
There's not a particularly big story to tell here, but that's not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to make the movie clock in at barely over an hour. (On the DVD, a promo for an Astron-6 short called "Bio Cop", and a priceless spoof of those FBI warnings on tapes and discs, helps add to the running time.)
The biggest laughs come from Hebert, a riot as the voice of # 1 Man. Adam Brooks (as the primary villain Count Draculon, and the scientist Dr. Scorpius), and Andrea Karr (as a hench woman named Shadow Mega), co-star, and they, like everybody else, play this for everything that it's worth.
The ending is rather abrupt, but in a mindless, gory, funny little diversion like this, that's not such a big issue.
Review by Scott LeBrun from the Internet Movie Database.
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