Cyborg Cop II

Cyborg Cop II

Year: 1994

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: English

Director: Sam Firstenberg

Science FictionAction

Jack, a hardened police officer, watches his partner die at the hands of a deranged terrorist during a hostage rescue, leading to the terrorist’s conviction and death‑row sentence. Unaware that the convicted terrorist will be abducted and transformed into a cyborg weapon for a secret Anti‑Terrorist Group, Jack is thrust into a new battle that blurs the line between law enforcement and cybernetic warfare.

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Jesse Starkraven Morgan Hunter leads a brutal raid on a drug den that quickly spirals into a hostage crisis as police converge on the scene. The renegade DEA agent Jack Ryan [David Bradley] arrives to broker a perilous negotiation, but Starkraven recognizes him as the officer who killed his brother Harlan in a prior crime. The situation deteriorates fast: hostages are harmed, Ryan’s partner is killed, and Starkraven is captured only to be later convicted of killing a cop and sentenced to death. The violence leaves a mark on everyone involved, setting a grim tone for what comes next.

On death row, Starkraven is abruptly abducted by government agents under the pretense of a prison transfer. He is handed over to the Anti-Terrorism Group and subjected to a shocking transformation, becoming a cyborg along with other test subjects. Rebranded as Spartacus, he is groomed to lead an expanding army of enhanced soldiers. Meanwhile, Ryan, still reeling from the betrayal of the system he trusted, digs into the disappearances and conspiracies surrounding the ATG against the orders of his boss, Captain Salerno [Dale Cutts]. He shelters a glimmer of hope by teaming up with former sheriff Sam Pickens [Victor Melleney], a respected local figure who has seen a lot of the town’s turmoil and is determined to uncover the truth behind the ATG’s secrets.

The plot thickens during a party celebrating the project’s “success.” Inside a secluded room, head scientist Dr. Owens [Douglas Bristow] is drawn into a disturbing encounter with Spartacus and the cyborgs. Spartacus awakens, kills the woman involved, and takes Owens hostage. He ruthlessly disarms the facility’s security by destroying all but one control bracelet, preserving it to manipulate the other cyborgs. With calculated fury, Spartacus orders the party to be burned to ruin and escapes with Owens, heading toward a second facility where even more cyborgs are being created.

The following day, Liz McDowell [Jill Pierce], the ATG project leader, arrives to assess the disaster and begins a quiet manhunt for Spartacus. Ryan’s investigation quickly intersects with hers, and she sends out agents to shadow him; he outsmarts them, and a covert break-in at an ATG office uncovers evidence that Starkraven was taken for conversion by the very agency meant to protect people. In the meantime, Spartacus and a handful of cyborgs make a fuel run to a gas station, sparking a tense confrontation where Ryan rescues a civilian family but is overpowered by Spartacus. Authorities intervene, dealing a heavy blow to the cyborgs and forcing a retreat, while Ryan finds himself briefly arrested and brought before McDowell, who warns him to stay out of ATG business.

Determined, Ryan escapes and heads to Pickens’ home to prepare for a direct assault on Spartacus’s hidden headquarters. Spartacus, emboldened by his new power, declares a grim ambition: to conquer cities and convert every human into a cyborg, establishing an empire with himself at the helm. He dispatches two cyborgs to eliminate Ryan, a strike that succeeds only in pushing Ryan further into the fight as Pickens pays the ultimate price.

With Pickens gone, McDowell agrees to merge forces with Ryan, supplying the firepower needed to topple Spartacus’s operation. The unlikely duo presses toward the cyborg stronghold, cutting a dangerous path through hostile resistance on the way. Spartacus reappears on a video screen to reveal a devastating personal twist: he has Ryan’s son hostage and intends to turn him into a cyborg as well. Ryan’s resolve hardens as he fights his way through the laboratory, frees his son, and seizes the pivotal control bracelet that can deactivate the other machines.

The showdown climaxes amid a cascade of electricity and metal. Ryan uses a magnet and a decisive burst of action to pull Spartacus into a network of electric cables, delivering a fatal shock. As the facility begins to crumble under the bombs they had planted earlier, Ryan, his son, and McDowell make a narrow escape, leaving the cyborg project to be swallowed by the ensuing explosion.

In the end, the story centers on a tense battle between human loyalty and technocratic overreach, a small town’s scramble for truth, and a father’s unwavering vow to protect his child. The line between ally and adversary blurs as extraordinary technology tests the limits of justice, courage, and mercy, leaving behind a stark meditation on power, control, and the price of safety in a world where humanity itself can be forged, broken, and remade.

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