'Hardwired' (2009) - Ernie Barbarash.

I have always thought that the zestfully capable action director Ernie Barbarash should be held in higher regard by action aficionados, as he frequently delivers the bellicose DTV goods, robustly fashioning boisterous B-movies with beloved Belgian, high-kicking beefcake Jean-Claude Van Damme, and in his dystopian, brain-hijacking actioner Barbarash is well served with the stolid presence of vengeful ex-special ops dude, Luke Gibson (Cuba Gooding Jr.), awakening after a calamitous car crash with rogue, ad-dispensing implant surreptitiously put there by the hilariously nefarious Val Kilmer, ruthless executive at the ill-named 'Hope Industries', and with pleasing alacrity the super testy test subject Gibson joins forces with outlaw cyber-terrorists headed by horror icon Michael Ironside, and thus begins a high-tech, low-budget William Gibson-borrowing B-Movie, bolstered with some fun set-pieces, knock-about action, with the only loose wiring being the derivative script, and a visibly tired Val Kilmer's somewhat somnolent performance as a rather lacklustre nemesis, but all that being said I still kinda dug on 'Hardwired', and you can't help but root for the fiesty, ad-beleaguered Gibson's conspiratorially sinister cyber travails, and I think fellow fans of PM Entertainment, Albert Pyun movies, and Sam Firstenberg's underrated 'Cyborg Cop' should still get a low-voltage, B-Movie buzz out of 'Hardwired'.