Leofwine_draca This is a pretty rare example of a low-budget '60s sci-fi movie, complete with all of those technological gadgets which look incredibly laughable and dated these days. In a film where homing devices turn out to be compasses and where time machines look like giant spark plugs, you can't fail to laugh and have a good time. Sadly, what could have been a nice and tight little thriller turns out to be a tacky affair, unable to overcome a low budget and one which ends up just being disappointing.Once you get over the initial disappointment that this isn't going to be very serious entertainment, I'm sure you'll find yourself enjoying the supreme '60s nature of the film, complete with dodgy laser guns (beams drawn on the film, no less), silly silver space suits and a lively score which appears to have been used in a number of other movies since. Michael Rennie finds himself typecast as the cyborg visitor from the future, basically playing the same kind of "stranger" character as he did in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, and it is sad to see him reduced to running around in a space-suit while shooting people with ray guns.Rennie is supported by Karen Steele - an incredibly irritating dumb blonde - and Wendell Corey, who made a living for himself doing these kinds of films and television shows. Elsewhere, a quartet of overage teenagers enjoy themselves by grooving in some snazzy attire - and while there, why not check out their unintentionally hilarious dialogue, which even outdoes I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF for sheer cheesiness! Sci-fi fans may well notice that the plot bears more than a passing resemblance to that of THE TERMINATOR, and this was an obvious influence on that film. One more thing - if you want to see something really funny, check out the two killer cyborgs from the future - Arnold Schwarzenegger they are not! Instead, they look like two camp joggers out on a night-time run, and are some of the funniest characters ever to appear in a movie.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Cyborg 2087, 1966. In th distant future of 2087, two scientists develop a time traveling device with a cyborg. The cyborg is supposed to go back in time and prevent a scientist from perfecting his new 'telepathy'. In the future time, a dictatorship government uses this telepathy to control it's citizenry and abuse their rights.*Special Stars- Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Cory, Warren, Stevens, Eduard Franz, Harry Carey Jr.*Theme- Justice in any time is important enough to preserve.*Trivia/location/goofs- One of the last film appearance of Michael Rennie. Supposedly the idea for many later sci-fi films: Terminator, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Time Cop, and etc.*Emotion- I wanted to like this film for it's premise. Even though it's a time travel and cyborg film, this one is very crudely done with little production values. It suffers from total unbelievability and bad screen elements. The necessary sci-fi 'suspension of believability' never occurs and screen things are unintentionally laughable. The plot is essentially a 'chase' film' between the future bad guys police robots chasing the good guy cyborg in 1966. This film had high hopes but is essentially a waste of good film plot ideas and your time. And you can't go back in a time machine to get it again...A waste of your time & attention.

GJValent I saw this flick as a 10:15 pm, Sat. night presentation on a local Chicago TV station. It was presented as a World Premier movie, not just a television premier. This was a minor trend in the mid/late 1960s TV world, preceding made for cable stuff. (A technology of the future.) It may have been regional, but, I recall several movies of the ilk. Probably, theatrical films that were deemed not worthy of standard distribution. Sold to TV as part of standard film 'packages'. Other titles include Dimension 5 with Jeffrey Hunter, and, a few that I can't recall. Anyway, this is not a review, complaint, or thanks. Just some info.

redbeard_nv The term, cyborg, meaning cybernetic organism, relates to a human enhanced with mechanical parts, often robotic in nature.Thus gave us the first glimpse into this genre. Albeit low budget (I mean, instrumentation from the future labeled with Dymo Label Maker Tapes?) and featuring actors who were at their peak not just a few short years before, including Michael Rennie, Klaatu from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" or "The Keeper" from "Lost In Space", or Warren Stevens, Doc Ostrow from "Forbidden Planet ("Monsters! Monsters from the ID!") and throwing the tem-oral twist of alternative time lines, this cyborg pre-dated "The Six Million Dollar Man" (and Martin Cadin's novel it was based on, "Cyborg"), the Jean Claude Van Damme dystopic future wasteland adventure, even Star Trek: The Next Generation's most relentless enemies, the Borg (sounds Swedish!...sorry. I couldn't resist).Add to that the obvious Terminator references (and people still forget about Harlan Ellison's own legal action against Cameron due to similarities in his Outer Limits scripts "Demon With the Glass Hand" and "Soldier") and you have a low-budget oddity that hasn't made the rounds in the post-midnight TV info-mercial circuit in years, being swept aside by other B-Movie kings like the Band Brothers' Full Moon Productions or Bert I. Gordon's & Brian Yuzna's Lovecraft micro-epics.