Eliminators (1986)
5/10
Manborg Meets Cyber Tracker 2
4 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
There were no shortage of apocalyptic wasteland movies in the eighties. You had all those rollerblade one's like RB7 and Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force.

Let's see if Eliminators falls into the same category as those.

You know what? It just occurred to me that no one makes those sort of movies any more.

So, Manborg has been zapped to the future by Doc Brown. He appears to be wearing what looks like a webcam on his head and an air conditioner on his back?

There's a big movie reveal early in the film - the evil doctor revealed that he has the same lizard-gilled face as Kevin from the Backstreet Boys in their Everybody film clip.

Manborg, resembling the baddie from AVGN's movie, escapes under heavy gunfire in the squeaky human tank roller.

Was that the Troma introduction backdrop just then in that scene?

So, Zena, (Have you seen Ash vs Evil Dead season 2?) As I was saying, Zena's working in some laboratory with your typical eighties robot called Spock. It looks like the same place The Predator was held captive.

Manborg, dressed as Marylin Manson, administrates the secret of the ooze to knock out some ineffective security guard to reach "I'm gonna get cha, get cha, get cha, one way, or another Blondie."

The Robocop is embarrassed the next morning when Zena sees him without his bra on as the silly robot, Spock, makes R2-D2 noises in excitement at the awkward situation.

Manborg here looks a little like Don the dragon Wilson from Cyber Tracker 2.

Wait a minute, this isn't an apocalyptic wasteland - it's Mexico!

Wow, smoke on the water.

I've never seen that before - a riverboat in a movie that runs on tequila. (Later in the movie another boat runs on high powered laceup boots.)

The Deadly Friend robot is activated and substituted as a drone to find the objective of this movie and its direction. Which I'm not quite sure what that is exactly either myself.

Meanwhile, some Planet of the Apes members make a cameo while a 100-proof bonafide ninja is introduced when the movie's three-quarters of the way over. (He ends up slicing the silly Spock robot in two.) The Robocop cyber tracker, with the microwave on his back, has become a lesser player in the movie and goes missing, playing second fiddle to this Fontaine river boat character but Robocop just turned into Predator in that scene blasting wrist laser beam thingy's.

Movie turns into a video game at the end as the big boss enters behind closed door one as the supreme super power with ultimate Mario strength. (He sort of resembles the redeye baddie from Last Action Hero. "Take his shoes?") Strangely, Manborg sacrifices himself and dies as the big boss uses a cheat code to warp to another dimension and immediately realisers he's in urgent need of a dentist.

The theme from Flash Gordon closes out the end credits.

What happened to the Bayou Betty character though? Mass potential there. I might have given a higher score if she appeared at the end and saved the day.

I guess it was better than that Dungeomaster crap I watched last night.
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