Digital Man

Well it was 1995 and the direct to video era had started. Some known actors, some very bad actors and you have a bit of a mess combined with bad FX. Its all been done before, in better and worst ways.... they lose a combat cyborg then they send in the special force to bring it back.. all hell breaks loose... voila.

A robot/cyborg/thingy called 'Digital Man' goes rogue with a bunch of launch codes in a desert town and special team is sent to bring it down. Cue lots of walking around in the hot sun and the excessive use of big firing guns. Firing is the appropriate word as flames keep spurting laughably out of massive barrels lugged about clumsily by the main cast. The cast of soldiers are a boring lot but the film is livened up by Ed Lauter as the villainous general and mighty Matthias Hues as the titular Digital Man. In small but vivid roles are Clint Howard and Susan Tyrrell who should have had more screen time. The cinematography by Harris Done was done well but the music score was forgettable. Part of the story is that the special team is a mix of humans and cyborgs but they don't who is or who isn't which seemed an unnecessary element if not rather ridiculous. The ending where General Roberts is shot by Mildred Hodges was rather comical though, in a good way. Otherwise the film was dull.

Has the world gone mad if anything this movie is average and i mean AVERAGE the explosion scenes are good but the special effects are pretty bad the scenes are slow the acting is like somthing ive seen on a movie with a budget of about £10 a ive seen sticks with better facial expressions. on a scale of 1-10 this movie is 3 and thats being kind

I've seen Digital man almost a decade ago when it came to video. My dad rented me this movie to watch over the weekend since he was leaving with my mom. I loved it so much that I've watched it five or six times in 48 hours !!! My memories of this movie are quite vague. I can't really remember the quality of the acting and script. But I definitely remember how scary Mathias Hues was as the killer robot. A team is sent in a small community somewhere out in the desert to terminate him but soon find out some of them are robots themselves. Woon and Jackson are two bad*ss soldiers who can't match Digital Man. I think I'll buy this movie in the near future since I can't find it at the video store anymore. I think fans of Terminator and Robocop would love this movie. It's the traditional "Shoot the bastard !!!" kind of flick with lots of action and sci-fi. I rate it 7/10. See it if you get the chance.

Digital Man is a very entertaining movie, with good acting, excellent photography and outstanding F/X. It does suffer from a mediocre script however. A very good, overall effort from a bunch of actors who fall into the category of "where have I seen them before?" A rating of 8 out of 10 was given.

Not really that much to say about this one other than this movie about a cyborg (for lack of a better word) who goes AWOL and causes all sorts of trouble is not anything great but on the flip side it's not really too bad either. Perfectly suitable as either a flick you turn on for a rainy Sunday or even just as background noise while doing something else. It's not the type of film that you have to pay rapt attention to. The digital mans interactions with some local white trash is a highlight of the film. Forgettable, but still a solidly average popcorn flick. Eye Candy: Chase Masterson gets briefly topless My Grade: B-