Heatseeker (film)
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""Heatseeker"" is a scifi-martial arts film by Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...

. It stars Keith Cooke
Keith Cooke
Keith Hirabayashi Cooke is an American martial artist, actor and an occasional stuntman.-Biography:...

 as the lead actor and co-stars Norbert Weisser
Norbert Weisser
Norbert Weisser is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun-directed films ....

, Thom Mathews
Thom Mathews
Thom Mathews in Los Angeles, California is an actor who is perhaps best known for his appearance in the horror films Return of the Living Dead and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives.-Career:...

 and Tim Thomerson
Tim Thomerson
Joseph Timothy “Tim” Thomerson is an American actor and comedian.Thomerson is most famous for his role as Jack Deth in the Trancers film series and is renowned for his work in numerous low-budget movies and his comedic television roles.-Early life:Tim Thomerson was born in Coronado, California. He...

. The setting is in an indeterminate time in the future but one in which cyborgs exist. The lead (Cooke) plays Kickboxer Chance O'Brien who finds himself forced into the underground world of cyborg kickboxing in order to save his girlfriend from corporate kidnappers. This was part of the martial arts scifi movie crossover craze of the late eighties and nineties when famed martial artists like Cynthia Rothrock, and Gary Daniels became hot properties in the martial arts world. Once again in a script filled with recognizeable faces Puyn weaves a story of technology gone wrong with corporate greed and martial arts action into a b-grade film that went direct to video and was seen in limited runs on cable.
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