Cyber Tracker

This is the first Don "The Dragon" Wilson movie I have ever seen, and nothing propels me to try out another one - sure, he is good at martial arts, but as an actor he has an uncharismatic screen presence. There's plenty of action in this film, with a new explosion every two minutes, and the effects are decent (considering the low budget), but the final Wilson vs. Richard Norton (a villain in some Jackie Chan movies also) showdown is the only notable fight scene. 0 out of 4 stars if you look at this as a "normal" film, 2 out of 4 if you look at it as a "B-movie".

Of course I had never heard about this 1994 action sci-fi movie titled "Cyber Tracker" prior to sitting down and watching it. I happened to stumble upon the movie by random chance here in 2024, and seeing that the movie was starring Don Wilson, of course I opted to give the movie a chance.

The storyline in the movie was sort of adequate. I mean, it wasn't particularly original, as it felt like writer Jacobsen Hart was borrowing a lot from the "Terminator" movie. But it proved to be an entertaining enough movie, if you enjoy these low budget action flicks.

The movie had a couple of familiar faces on the cast list. Aside from Don Wilson, the movie also had the likes of Richard Norton and John Aprea on the cast list. I will say that the acting performances in the movie were actually fair.

Visually then "Cyber Tracker" was an okay movie. The special effects were not top notch, but they served their purpose well enough. Of course you could see that the movie was a low budget one. I love how all cars apparently blow up in a massive fireball whenever they crash into one another. And the lovely face mask of the tracker when he walked out of a building while encased in flames, I was laughing so hard at that scene.

"Cyber Tracker" is a pretty generic and formulaic early 1990s action movie, for better or worse.

My rating of director Richard Pepin's 1994 movie "Cyber Tracker" lands on a five out of ten stars.

This is one more film in a long series started by Terminator, about overmuscled androids fighting righteous humans. It is certainly hard to achieve something close to what the big budget Hollywood machine can do in effects, directing, and buying good actors. However, CyberTracker is not that bad - it has some logic, avoids awful acting, or too cheap effects. I have seen much worse in this genre. 5 out of 10 on my personal scale.

Those action mad loonies of PM Entertainment, Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin deliver this somewhat fun Terminator rip off starring former kickboxing champ, Don 'The Dragon' Wilson.

Funny thing is, despite his obvious skills in the ring, I have never much liked Wilson's on screen fights and this film proved no exception. Even the final fight against martial arts star Richard Norton – a fight which should have been awesome, proved to be decidedly mundane.

But enough about the fights – what of the rest of the film you might ask?

Well, it's derogative stuff at best and clearly knows it but with Merhi and Pepin on board, plots invariably play second fiddle to the action scenes at any rate. In this regards, there are some admittedly cool sequences on offer which really elevate the film.

Acting wise? – Probably best not mentioned but overall a fairly fun little film that should keep action fans mildly amused for ninety or so minutes.

Eric Phillips (Don Wilson) is a secret service agent who prevents the assassination of a senator however along the way he finds a conspiracy and has a tracker on his tail. The tracker by the way is bent on terminating Phillips. The most obvious inspiration for this low budget cheeseball action flick, is of course Robocop and while that film had some imagination and real energy, this just has a real life kickboxing champ running away from a robot. The movie isn't so awful as it is just empty and repetitive. The story is written in clichés and the characters are set up to be cut down by the various gunfire. Don Wilson, as usual, is terrible in the lead role.

*1/2 out of 4-(Poor)