Samurai Cop
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Movie Reviews of Samurai Cop
Movie Review: stop reading and start purchasing
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie is absolutely awesome... I usually watch bad movies with friends but I saw this one for the first time while solo and it still had me laughing like a maniac (but not like a maniac cop)
I put a drinking game for this on the imdb message board - check it out
Movie Review: Epic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best movie I have ever seen. Top notch action, picture quality, and acting. I think my favorite part in the entire movie is the sexy nurse, which can be found on YouTube for anyone interested.Movie Review: Mifune Needn't Be Worried
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, everything you've heard about Samurai Cop is true(that is considering you've heard anything at all). There's no reason why anybody, cult film fan or not, should like this film, but as reviewers have stated already, it's just too horrible not to be captivated by it. It's the kind of film a film course would show to it's class as a lesson in what not to do when making a film.
The simple plot is about a Japanese yakuza gang called Katana that finally meets their match in a newcomer police officer who is supposed to be a samurai. The Samurai Cop and his wisecracking black partner, Frank(they remind you of a micro budget Crockett and Tubbs), set out to bring the evil thugs down, but priorities are priorities, and it seems as though Samurai Cop's need to get laid is the top priority. Meanwhile, the lovable Robert Z'Dar is the evil second in command of the Katana gang and has made it his mission to slice the Samurai Cop into sushi.
You could call this a B movie, but that's giving it way to much credit. Maniac Cop was a B movie, and this doesn't even come close to that film. It looks only a hair above home movie picture quality, the dialogue is simply jaw droppingly bad, the fight scenes and car chases are accomplished by speeding up the camera, the sound(the spoken dialogue anyway) was obviously recorded after the shooting and dubbed back in(giving it an odd sound I might add), the fx were bad(one guy is obviously being shot with red paint pellets), hell it was all bad. Nothing was done right. And for a so called samurai movie, it had very little as far as martial arts go.
The Samurai Cop himself is a long haired piece of muscular beefcake played by Matt Hannon in his only film role. Of course Robert Z'Dar is the only person in this film who can even remotely be considered a star(okay Melissa Moore is in it too, but that's not saying much) Z'Dar does well at playing the typical Z'Dar role, and I will say that it's easier to buy him as a samurai than Matt Hannon(but I will say that Hannon knows a move or two).
The disc has an interview with Robert Z'Dar, which is always a treat because he has such a quirky sense of humor. He's well aware of the kind of films he makes, and while he never says that Samurai Cop was good, he does seem to have pleasant recollections of making the movie. Another plus to this disc is the funny intro and MST3K type commentary with Joe Bob Briggs. Very entertaining I must say.
Well, that's about it-A nice DVD package for a not so nice movie. Samurai Cop is one horrible friggin' movie, but in the end, that's the best thing it could be.
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