It seems that sometime in the future, a band of bad dudes have acquired the launch codes to start World War III and are using them to blackmail the United States. The feds decide to send in the D-1 unit, or Digital Man, an experimental cyborg that is the state of the art soldier. The D-1 goes in, wipes out the bad guys, acquires the launch codes himself and then goes AWOL. Back at HQ the commander who sent the experimental unit gets chewed out and the head honchos call in a quartet of tough marines, assigning them the charge of destroying the rogue cyborg. The team heads out towards "Badwater," the desert site of a closed nuclear facility and now home to a bunch of redneck ex-employees of said facility. Once the Marines arrive there's mucho firepower and battling with the Digital Man as well as dealing with the obnoxious white trash residents of the small town under siege.
The first half of the movie plays like an episode of Space: Above and Beyond. You've got your racially and gender-mixed team of tough Marines, overseen by a tough-talking commanding officer. You've got big guns, virtual-reality training, cool computer-generated transports, bases and effects and a quick-moving, action-driven plot. Once the group lands in Badwater however, it reminded me more of the b-classic, Tremors. You've got your desert town in the middle of nowhere, populated by only a handful of hillbilly types and a big menace that everyone is trying to get away from. Plus there's a good dose of comic relief from the town's residents.
The Digital Man is played by Matthias Hues, who was in Cyberzone and played the cranium-piercing alien in I Come In Peace. And he looks good as a armor-covered cyborg. Other actors you may recognize include Clint Howard (Ron's brother) as another cyborg unit and Patrick Swayze's brother, Don, as the lead hill person, whose trailer is blown up after he and his girlfriend are interupted while trying out new sexual positions.
Despite getting a little slow in the middle, the pace is pretty good, the effects are decent and the plotline actually take a few twists and turns to keep things interesting. Check it out.
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