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Night Siege
Night Siege: Project Shadowchaser II
Night Siege: Project: Shadowchaser 2
Project Shadowchaser 2
Project Shadowchaser II
Project Shadowchaser: Night Siege
Shadowchaser 2
Shadowchaser II
Shadowchaser: Night Siege
Tagline(s):Part Man. Part Machine. Pure Killer.
Nomination Year: 1995
SYNOPSIS: 

A female scientist and her son are trapped in her high-tech workplace by a group of terrorists who are out to steal the nuclear bomb stored there. Fortunately, she's helped by the janitor, who also happens to be an expert kickboxer. Unfortunately, the leader of the terrorists turns out to be a literal killing machine--an unstoppable android with artificial intelligence (much like the rest of the cast in that regard).

They might as well have named this movie Try Hard, since it wants to be Die Hard SO badly: Clever terrorist takeover of a building... Evil hacker trying to crack into a vault... The baddies' motives are not what they seem... Protagonist and hot lady trapped inside... They have a touching relationship with a cop on the outside via walkie-talkie... Oh, did I mention it's Christmastime?

Now add a Terminator who looks like Duke Nukem...

Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Worst Special Effect
Must've Been a Cyborg-Seeking Missile

The male hero of the film (the janitor at the top-secret facility where all this takes place) is trying to escape the complex before it self-destructs. He's hanging from a helicopter by a rope-ladder above an open missile silo. But unfortunately, the evil cyborg has followed, and grabs the janitor's foot. They struggle in front of one of the most egregious uses of the blue-screen technique that I've ever seen. Meanwhile, an Army attack chopper has been ordered to fire a missile and destroy the complex. The janitor finally knocks the cyborg off the rope-ladder. With superb cinematic timing, the cyborg falls (another terrible blue-screen event), and is impaled by the missile. Then the complex begins to self-destruct, and as the helicopter pulls away, we are treated to the janitor's continued climb up the rope ladder against a clearly blue-screened backdrop of fire and explosions (!).

"WHAT?!"
They Should've Made Him an Alien Cyborg

Okay, it's bad enough that a clever bunch of terrorists has taken over the complex, but suddenly, it turns out that the leader is a cyborg! We don't find out right away, mind you--it's from out of the blue, more than halfway through the film. The first proof that the guy isn't just some swole badass is an internal display (a la Terminator) that identifies a closed locket as containing the missing voice-recognition chip--at the 59:11 mark.

But you know, I wondered why the super-ripped terrorist leader went around with his shirt off all the time, and spoke in a vaguely Ahnold-esque cadence...

Directors
Director Claim to Fame
John Eyres Directed the Shadowchaser series. And Irish Jam
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Frank Zagarino Android Plays a lot of cyborgs and androids, like in the Shadowchaser series. 
Bryan Genesse Frank Meade Played Rocco Carner on "The Bold and the Beautiful" and Grady Jameson on "Street Justice." Trained in Hun Gar Kung Fu and Muay Thai (the martial art, not the drink). 
Beth Toussaint Laurie Webber The original "Anna Sheridan" on Babylon 5, before the role was taken over by Bruce Boxleitner's wife. Played Tracey Lawton on "Dallas" and Hope Adams Wilson on "The Young and the Restless." 
Daniel Bonjour Ricky AKA Danny Hill (not "Danny Hello?"). Played Levon Patch on "iZombie," Daniel Lawrence on "Frequency," and Aiden Monroe on "The Walking Dead." 
Robin Smith Prine Career peak was probably his small appearance in Ernest Goes to Africa
Danny Keogh John O'Hara Portrayed Julius Galt on "Charlie Jade," plus a lot of B-parts in action roles. 
Gavin Hood Tieg Was the Giant in Ender's Game
Jeff Fannell Carl Reitman Small parts in a few action flicks. Mostly with names like "Dick," "Chuck," "Manny," etc. 
Todd Jensen Joe Hutton Commissioner Morelli in Thick as Thieves and Det. Traxler in Ninja
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