Hands of Steel

'Hands of Steel' AKA 'Atomic Cyborg' (1986) This is a horrible film - not good at all. What kills me is John Saxon is in it - and I like him. He shouldn't be in a film like this but he is. Really the movie is just "ok" - barely watchable but it's better than other things I've seen on TV most of the time. A cyborg named Paco Queruak is assigned to kill a scientist that holds the fate of mankind in his hands... he fails, hides in a diner where he meets a woman who falls in love with him. Together they must defeat the other cyborgs that are after them and find the scientist to save mankind. I got this one in a 50-pack horror films. This does not belong in a horror pack... maybe in a pack of action or sci-fi films. 2/10

This is an endless Terminator type movie with a cyborg hero who just keeps on going. Like many of his AI ilk, he seems to have a heart and can love. Sixty percent of the movie is one chase after another with a plethora of weapons and explosions. There is an interesting subplot as he defeats all the local arm wrestlers, getting on the bad side of the local hero. He strikes up a romance with a young lady who runs a bar/motel and he looks after her. Unfortunately, he's so darned indestructible that the fight scenes and the arm wrestling are pointless. If he had wanted to, he could have covered his tracks and protected everyone by just killing a few of them off. After all, that's what they wanted to do to him. It's fun at times in a macho way, but like those Charles Bronson "Death Wish" sequels, it dies of excess and credibility. It portends to be much more than it is.

Wow what a movie,, at first I thought it was like a prequel of sorts to the Road Warrior or something like that,, so many similarities I thought that it was uncanny, like for instance the boneyard of junk cars and such, and the baron wasteland. No major actors or actresses in here that I noticed but that didn't matter because the plot and the action carried the movie 100 percent of the time, I was not disappointed in anything at all really,, all of the fight sequences were choreographed brilliantly, and the female lead was nice to look at. a man/cyborg 70/30 mix , is on the run after being programmed to kill a top scientist, great action, arm wrestling, chases and the like , great movie I was totally surprised at how great this movie was and will watch again very soon.