Eliminators

Plot synopsis:
There's a time travelling 1-eyed mad scientist that created a cyborg with a laser on his arm. Said cyborg attempts escape certain dismantlement, which ends up killing some Asian assistant scientist that tried to help him. After escaping using tank treads as legs and shooting lasers at hired goons, he goes to another scientist for help... played by Lt Yar from Star Trek. Yar has a little flying robot that seems to be a mix of that owl from Clash of the Titans, and R2-D2.
Yar, Owl2-D2, and "Mandroid" then hire a river ruffian to pilot a boat to go up-stream. They find traces of Mandroid's human past with a picture of his wife and child. He can't yet remember who they are just yet..
That boat eventually crashes, and they end up being captured by some Neanderthals... presumably brought to the present by the time-travelling 1-eyed mad scientist. After escaping the poorly costumed cavemen, they come across a ninja who is out for revenge since he was the son of that random dead scientist at the beginning. He can manipulate time and space with his mind (done by playing recorded video in reverse or slo-mo)... but only sometimes, and for no reason.
The River Ruffian, Lt. Yar, Mandroid, Owl2-D2, and the ninja find those old tank treads and uses them to attack the time travelling 1-eyed mad scientist's lair. Owl2-D2 and the tank treads bite the dust, and they carry on inside the compound.
The time travelling 1-eyed mad scientist then shows up now also a cyborg (but red), yet wearing gold armour he took from Ancient Rome since he wants to go back and be the Caesar of the time. Looking like Iron Man on acid, he then shoots Force Lightning (a la the Emperor of the Sith) from his Roman shield, and traps the crew in a shrinking net of electricity. Mandroid then sacrifices himself (with minimal protest from the others) to save them. He dies. (Yes.. the main character dies and never finds out who he was and what happened to his family who should be still alive since it was only a year ago he was changed into a cyborg)
The Ninja, Ruffian, and Yar then go inside and send the time travelling 1-eyed mad Roman Iron Man scientist back to 430,000,000BC, where he yells and shakes his cyborg hands to the sky in anger. They all just smile and then.. credits.
The End. Awesome.

Tags: cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, revenge

Review:
Seriously, as the amazingly varied collection of characters adds up (river-rat, scientist, robot, ninja, cavemen, Roman soldiers, and on) you will never be bored.
There is a lot to like, for kids or B-movie lovers, but somehow it never degenerates into the lesser-desirable qualities of the "so bad it's good" genre.
While this film has "I am a B Movie" written all over it, it is actually very enjoyable.
The person who holds this all together is Andrew Prine (from V.) He is a very likeable river "scum." The scenes on the river are very fun and they really keep this movie from being a "B" movie the whole time.If you want to have a "no brainer" good time, rent this movie!I give this film a B..
Joining him are a scientist (Denise Crosby), an R2D2 wannabe, an Indiana Jones wannabe, and a ninja!
mix in a bit of Frankenstein, some time travel and the potential damage of meddling with the past, a ninja (!) a materialistic, seemingly selfish but actually kind hearted charter boat captain (shades of Han Solo anyone?) and a feisty, pre-Star Trek: TNG Annette Crosby and you have Eliminators  a highly likable yet almost forgotten gem of 1980's Sci-Fi!
The plot is quite obviously far too ambitious in scope for the budgetary constraints and yet somehow it all works so well, not least of all because of the highly likable characters featured in this (Andrew Prine's laid back character is especially fun to watch) There's also an excellent realisation of the 'mobile unit', a mode of transport whereby the Mandroid (bear with me on this) removes his legs (!) and rides around with the unit (a sort of miniature tank) on his lower half (presumably most of the budget was spent on this!) What can I say?
If you're at all a fan of 80's Science Fiction TV and/or movies then like me, you'll probably lap this up, it all makes perfect sense on screen and is highly enjoyable throughout.
Saw this recently for the first time in over a decade....I think the movie deserves a higher rating than the one currently on the IMDb. Some of the effects are great considering the budget (the only exception being the poorly realised 'SPOT' robot).
Andrew Prine & Roy Dotrice were great fun, and the script was both funny and pretty well structured.Perhaps if the movie had received a PG rating rather than a 15 in the UK, people wouldn't be so down on it, as this is at heart good family entertainment for all ages.....7/10.
This is just a fun movie with a bunch of fun two dimensional characters on a comic book mission.
If I ever have kids this is one film I'd want to watch with them.
Just as the guy says in the film "We've got robots, we've got cavemen, we've got Kung-Fu(actually it's ninjutsu) what is this anyway, some kind of  comic book?" 7/10.
Tell me if this plot doesn't excite you; a cyborg who has rebelled against his creator must team up with the scientist who's technology created him, a martial artist with a katana and a river boat pilot to stop the evil scientist form turning himself into a cyborg and going back in time to conquer ancient Rome.
Paul De Meo & Danny Bilson (The Rocketeer, Arena, The 80s Flash TV series, Zone Troopers) are great are creating sci-fi movies with a pulp fiction-y flavour to them and this film is no exception.
Aside from that the effects aredecent, the action is great, the acting alternates between good and hammy, and the story is fun.
It is just such an awesome cheesy romp using the kitchen sink method, if you know what I mean, with just everything thrown in for flavor, Just like Fontana says in the movie, "an android, a robot, and kung fu?
And I greatly recommend it to sci fi, action, and Andrew Prine fans of all ages.
My favorite low budget sci fi movie of all time baby!.
What could and should had been a cyborg action flick is now an adventure movie through the jungle, without ever becoming a good, tense or exciting one to watch.
The movie is basically constantly more of the same, when new characters emerge, who for some reason want to see our main heroes dead.
It's main premise still lets the movie sound good but the actual end result is simply a failure.
It just isn't the best going movie.The movie makes some strange twists and turns in an attempt to give the movie an adventurous and perhaps even an epic kind of feeling over it.
Needless to say they failed miserably.The movie has some silly futuristic gadgets and futuristic images in it, like you could only expect from a silly '80s flick.
Of course all of its special effects aren't quite top-notch looking yet but I have to admit that for 1986 standards it simply is not too bad.I think this movie its intentions were quite serious but however the end result of course is nothing but a typical '80's B-movie and not a very good one either.
The music is dreadful and doesn't even sound like it got written for this movie at all.
Same can be said for the script, that also doesn't really feature the best dialog imaginable.So even though they aren't being helped with a good script or dialog, also the actors themselves are bad and lacking in their skills.
Guess they just went along with the cheapest actors available at the moment.Perhaps the movie would had still been better to watch with some more action in it.
The movie lacks 2 or 3 real big action sequences, that could had really spiced up things a little.This movie unfortunately makes a lot of wrong choices.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
we have the ability to film dreams,so we make this movie instead.
There's a mandriod, the dude is worried about his leg units, this movie also has a ninja.
Did anyone know while they were making this movie that it would look like this in the end?
An abysmally bad buddy-buddy-buddy-buddy movie with Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation).
Laughable scenes: the animation of SPOT, Nora Hunter's robot, and the bar brawl that occurs when riverboat guides battle over who gets to take Denise down the river.
When you're 14 years old, you can't yet comprehend that a movie can be a bad.
Seeing the Mandroid rolling around, knowing that a ninja was in this movie, I lost my mind and couldn't wait to see it.
I would have to wait 31 years to see this film and I can honestly tell you — it is a complete piece of crap.It's an entertaining piece of crap, though.Read more at https://bandsaboutmovies.com/2017/07/31/the-eliminators-1986/.
Watch it, if you have the chance, because it's one of the most interesting low-budget films of the 1980's.This movie has everything: a "mandroid" Terminator-type robot, a gutsy female robotics expert, a Humphrey Bogart/African Queen boat captain, a Ninja warrior, Neanderthal cavemen, an R2D2 clone, southern rednecks (wait till you see "Bayou Betty"!)---and a villain cyberneticist whose real ambition is to travel back in time and become a Roman Emperor!
It's a great family film, with action for the kids, and just enough intelligence and wit to make it interesting for the adults.One of the best if not the best "80's B movies".
I saw this movie when I was about 12 and into the whole "robots are cool" phase.
The boat chase is fun if you like to watch things blow up.
i was shocked by how much the caveman elder looked like Mortiis from Emperor and at one point the kung fu character jumps through a a big fan and for some reason i thought that was pretty sweet.
i think if this movie wasn't PG it would be a lot better but the little cute robot sucks and more people should have been murdered.
but oh yeah when the android gets back his tires and the stupid thugs chase him on three-wheelers that's also pretty sweet.i thought that the films stereotypes of southerners were really un-PC and not cool though..
(Even though, some "Next Generation" episodes aren't much better.) I hope, Bing Crosby, her grandfather (!), will never see that movie in afterlife.
This year, I recently scored with finding a few other titles from my list including the 1986 non-classic Eliminators.Released by Empire Pictures, Eliminators was the story about a downed pilot that is transformed into a cyborg "Mandroid" by two scientists (Dr. Reeves and Dr. Takada) - one of which (Reeves) has a penchant for evil.
When Dr. Reeves orders the Mandroid destroyed, the cyborg (played by actor Patrick Reynolds) escapes from his creator's laboratory and heads north in search of someone who can assist in getting revenge and stopping Dr. Reeves from realizing his evil plan that includes the use of a time machine.
Help comes in the form of Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby from Pet Semetary) who is a doctor/scientist of her own.
The Mandroid in the film resembled a poor man's Robocop (which was released the following year).
And his various mechanical costume gadgets that included lasers, grapple hooks and even motorized boots, were laughable instead of innovative or awe striking.The evil Dr. Reeves (Roy Dotrice) hams up the screen, but he really makes Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon look like an Academy Award performance when contrasted.
From the small teleporting robot that was their sidekick to the laser shootouts, the movie really failed to deliver on any of the promises projected from the movie's poster and cover art.Luckily Denise Crosby and Andrew Prine as the playful Harry Fontana give the film enough life to keep us smiling through all the disappointment.Eliminator s was therefore terrible.
This is the absolute best of B-movies, I could think of a whole lot of 'A-movies' I find either less interesting or simply less entertaining than this masterpiece.
This movie has: - An Indiana Jones - A hot army robot-technician - A terminator - An R2D2 - A ninja - Cavemen - Romans - An evil professor who wants to take over the worldAnd this all combined in a jungle adventure with Dukes of Hazard kind of action.How could this suck?
But this is such an over the top mish-mash of characters and situations, as a whole it's pretty unique and EXTREMELY entertaining.If you like 80s adventure movies and are not scared of lower production value, go see this.
Without a doubt, this is a movie made by some guys who were sitting around and started going, "You know what would be cool?
Ninjas fighting cavemen." "Can we do like a Romancing the Stone/Indiana Jones kind of riverboat adventure?" "Wait, wait, wait...
Androids and ninjas fighting cavemen with a riverboat captain and a pretty female scientist and her pet robot for some extra sweetness." "Sweet!
And the villain will be a time traveling robotic Roman!" Basically, that's the movie.
You don't have to think hard, you won't have your emotions poked or fondled, instead you'll think, "Well, this is certainly a movie." It's not going to win any awards, but it's fun to watch for sheer noise and pure 80s awesome.
The acting isn't terrible, considering how goofy the plot is (you try playing against a ninja, cavemen, tiny robots and time traveling Romans while keeping a straight face) and the whole thing has a very bouncy feel to it.The locations vary just enough and the costumes have juuust enough detail to them to not make it feel like an all out cheese fest, but instead it's a perfect movie to munch down popcorn to.
The Eliminators is such a good movie,please come back on video.
This is one of the great movies of the 80s in MY collection that I think about all the time.
Some minor spoilersI saw this movie only a couple times in the past but those two times I was grateful because I didn`t know what I was in store for.I just love the cyborg guy and his arch rival.The special effects is some of the coolest I have ever seen.I loved it when Roy Dotrice shot the lightning bolts out of his hands and the woman,Bayou Betty,wow is she manly,boy she is something in it.I just loved the big boat chase in this film.I wish I could buy this movie this very minute but Hopefully it`ll be on video very soon.I won`t pass it up and I hope you don`t either..
It knows full well that it's a B movie, but the cast and crew were clearly having a fine old time, and that feeling is infectious.
The actors play it for all that it's worth, to be sure.Our four character heroic team is made up of Harry Fontana (Andrew Prine), a charming rogue of a river guide, Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby), a young scientist, Kuji (Conan Lee), a ninja, and a "mandroid" (Patrick Reynolds).
The mandroid used to be a pilot before a power mad villain, Abbott Reeves (Roy Dotrice) got a hold of him and turned him into a half-man / half-machine experiment.
Now the mandroid has escaped and wants revenge, first seeking out Nora who then hires Harry to transport them through Mexico to Abbotts' lair.As written by the reliable team of Danny Bilson & Paul DeMeo and directed by Peter Manoogian, "Eliminators" should prove to be quite a hoot for kids of all ages.
As it turns out, good old Abbott was messing around with time travel.
Dotrice is an entertaining bad guy, and further antagonism / comedy relief is supplied by Bayou Betty (Peggy Mannix), a butch competitor of Harry's.One can see early on that this is never meant to be taken too seriously, and this extends all the way to the final shot, an absolutely hysterical "freeze frame" moment.Highly recommended to lovers of '80s cheese.Seven out of 10..
I'm not saying -good-, but certainly not the worst movie.If I were to explain, it's a movie about a cyborg, a ninja, Tasha Yar, and a guy doing a Han Solo impression teaming up to fight a time-travelling Roman cyborg who has a shield that shoots lighting force-fields at people.
If that doesn't sound a -little- cool, I got nothing to say to you.Again, it's not a particularly good movie, but had I watched this when I was 9-12 years old, it would've blown me away.
It's a good 80s action flick for the kids.
A mandroid (played in an appropriately stolid manner by Patrick Reynolds) vows to get revenge on evil mad scientist Abbott Reeves (well essayed with lip-smacking villainous gusto by Roy Dotrice).
The mandroid's funky tank, a cutesy robot scout called Spot, a lively barroom brawl, a subplot concerning time travel, and a tribe of pesky caveman further enhance the infectiously wacky merriment.
*Spoiler/plot- 1986, A brilliant scientist who's mastered time travel and recently created a Man-driod (half human and half machine) from a former crashed pilot named John is transformed into a mechanical slave with extensive weapons.
Along the way a mysterious Kung Fu expert joins them with his mission to avenge his madman's assistant scientist murdered father, all killed by Dr. Abbot 'madman' Reeves.*Special Stars- Andrew Prine, Denise(Annette) Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee, Roy Dotrice *Theme- Human spirit is stronger than steel and death itself.*Trivia/location/goofs- Filmed in Mexico, look for a politically incorrect flannel shirted butch lesbian character as a 'baddie' in the river traveling scenes.
Kung Fu, time travel, robots with human parts, and A-Team excessive explosions occur in this predictably laughable film for its triteness and predictability.*Emotion- An enjoyable but rather crazy science-fiction film full of clichéd genres of the 80's.
As part of their experiments in time travel, Drs. Reeves and Takada construct a cyborg with the body of a downed pilot.
Distraught by the death of his one friend, the Mandroid goes north to America in search of someone who can help him in getting revenge and stopping Dr. Reeves in whatever evil plan he intends to use his time machine for......Well this something I've never seen before.
Obviously influenced by The Terminator, our friendly neighbourhood Mandroid just seems like a knock off of Cameron's creation, and is doing nothing more than trying to cash in on that, especially with the time travel element.But then our lovely Mandroid has a car, and the film couldn't be further away from Arnie's star making turn.It's B-movie cheese for sure, with Mandriod dressing up like Phillip Marlowe for one scene, following some blue orb with a very disturbed looking heroine, and then getting on a boat with the real love interest, because I really thought she was into some mechanical stuff.It really doesn't make any sense, and the makers know this, so instead of trying to make the narrative more coherent, they chuck in a ninja, some cavemen, and two henchman so hilarious, thy should have appeared in every film for the rest of eternity.And then we have the bi boss fight at the end, and a finale ripping off the last shot of Disney's The Black Hole.It's a stupid film for sure, but if your like me, an absolute geek when it comes to anything 80's, then this is a must..
B movies can be fun.
You have time travel, you have cyborgs, you have Denise Crosby Side-Boob.
So the plot is a mad scientist intends to travel back in time and use his advanced technology to remake the Roman Empire in his own image.
He uses time traveling cyborg John Doe, who rebels against his programming and finds Denise Crosby to enlist her help.
But as the sum of its parts, it's kind of a fun movie to watch.
Considering they had no budget and few good actors, they kind of did okay with it.