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Watch: The Guyver 1991 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young man discovers a mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a cyborg superhero. When strange creatures start appearing, trying to take the device back, he begins to uncover a secret plot to genetically engineer terrifying monsters..
Plot: FBI agent Max Reed witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa – a researcher for the mysterious Chronos Corporation – being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as “The Guyver” from Chronos. College student Sean Barker, whose girlfriend’s father was Dr. Segawa, finds the Guyver’s hiding spot while watching the forensic team investigating the crime scene.
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Ratings:

	4.9/10 Votes: 5,467
	40% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 131 Popularity: 12.447 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Bad & The Good Of ‘The Guyver’
The “bad news” outweighs the “good news” for this movie.

BAD – The dialog in here is very stupid; the acting is poor (Jack Armstrong, Vivian Wu?); there is too much violence and simply a general Class B-type production feeling about this whole film, making it dumb overall.

GOOD – It was very light on the profanity and sometimes had some pretty good special-effects with the humans turning into monsters.

STRANGE – Added to the cast is television star Jimmie Walker, who played a goofy “Kid Dyn-O-Mite” character on TV, and Mark Hamill, from the hugely-successful Star Wars movie series. Wow, times must have gotten tough for those two actors to be in this movie!

OVERALL – After watching this for an hour, it was hard to get interested enough to finish the film.

Well, I thought it was cooler 10 years ago…
…And that was because I was 12 and hadn’t read the original Yoshiki Takaya Manga “Bio-booster Armor Guyver” back then. 1992’s “The Guyver” was the first American adaptation of Takaya’s original Japanese work, which had already been made into a 12-episode OVA on its native soil.

The original 12-episode OVA condensed much of Takaya’s material, thus eliminating a lot of the deeper sci-fi themes and moments for the characters to develop beyond simple comic book caricatures. The 1992 “Guyver” film boasts some incredible creature effects, cool-looking monsters and a formidable cast of “B”-movie talent, but it didn’t do much to really further Takaya’s reputation in the United States, since like the first OVA, a lot of themes in the movie were shed and replaced by typical sci-fi monster movie elements and the camp humor present in most American “B”-pictures.

Perhaps the blame falls on the co-directing team of Screaming Mad George and Steve Wang and screenwriter Jon Purdy. They bring much of the camp of American “B”-movies to an amazing piece of Japanese art that was better known for its deep characters, chilling near-apocalyptic themes and brilliant sci-fi narrative, not for any stupid camp humor. Of course this undermines the seriousness of and shows an utter lack of respect for Takaya’s original material, even though I’m not a stickler for accuracy when it comes to adaptations but these sorts of changes really bugged me.

The first live-action film features some of the same basic elements of the story, including characters and history, but that’s about it. In Los Angeles, a lab scientist is tracked down and killed by the Chronos Corporation’s legion of Zoanoids, human mutants that have the ability to transform into monster foot-soldiers at will. The scientist had stolen the “guyver” unit, an alien suit of armor, from Chronos’s lab, and had planned on delivering it to CIA agent Max Reed (Mark Hamill).

Balcus (the late David Gale) is the head of Chronos, and has instructed his Zoanoid henchmen (including original “The Hills Have Eyes” Michael Berryman as Zoanoid chief henchman Lisker and Jimmy Walker as Zoanoid foot-soldier Striker, the latter of whom provides much of the comic relief) to go out and search for the missing Guyver unit by first starting with the scientist’s daughter Mizki (Vivian Wu). But it has already fallen into the hands of college student Sean Barker (Jack Armstrong), who accidentally activates the unit after being attacked by gang members and is transformed into an exponentially enhanced mechanized warrior with an awesome array of powers and weapons. Now he must use the Guyver’s abilities to fend off Chronos and its legion of evil Zoanoids.

While “The Guvyer” does boast some incredible special effects, you can also see some of the attempts at mimicking the mood of then-recent comic book adaptations like “Batman” (1989) or “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (1990), much rather than its own source material. But the camp humor destroys much of what could have been really good about the movie. The acting is pretty poor, the dialogue hokey and “B”-name heavyweights such as Mark Hamill and Jimmy Walker don’t really seem to have a lot to do, although there is one oddly-placed comic scene where Striker crashes in on the set of a monster movie and is confronted by scream queen Linnea Quigley (they don’t call her a scream queen for nothing, you know).

Better to save the best for this film’s 1994 sequel “Guyver: Dark Hero” and the 2005 26-episode OVA series, both of which are not only better, but are more serious, more violent, and more faithful to the Manga.

4/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 28 min (88 min), 1 hr 32 min (92 min) (director’s cut) (USA)
Budget 3000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Comedy, Horror
Director Screaming Mad George, Steve Wang
Writer Jon Purdy, Yoshiki Takaya
Actors Greg Joung Paik, Jimmie Walker, Peter Spellos
Country United States, Japan
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Ultra Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm