Samurai Cop

It's as if no one involved in the making of this movie, from the actors, producers, writers to the caterer had ever seen a movie before but had Lethal Weapon explained to them in detail. It's so inept in every way but fun to watch. CRAPTASTIC!

This is easily one of the BEST of the WORST movies ever made. It has a magical combination of sh!tness in every facet of film-making that can only happen when so many bright-eyed talentless people come together for an unintentional hackfest a la The Room. It almost feels like a prequel/precursor to that film. The racial tropes are hilarious and the love-making scenes will kill any boner. I bestow it the absolutely highest recommendation possible.

Completely earnest in its ineptitude, Samurai Cop is one of the quintessential so bad its good movies with everything that could go wrong during its production somehow not even being the tipping point to the film's myriad of problems. The most infamous film of Iranian director Amir Shervan's filmography, his extremely vague style has to be marvelled at with the guerilla, amateur filmmaking approach to such trivial things such as locations, ADR, continuity and even basic editing, all the things we take for granted in many of our favourite films. The goofs are numerous but only add to the film's ridiculous charm due to Shervan attempting to make a super serious martial arts film but with every factor, actors included, working against him. Said acting is hilariously awful across the board; Mathew Karedas is one majorly wooden hero, Mark Frazer has some extremely goofy cutaways that are often intercut at the worst time, while Robert Z'Dar, Jimmy Williams and Gerald Okamura are always a delight to see. The music by Alan DerMarderosian is your typically cheap synth-droning but arranged in such a way that it permeates your brain and firmly lodges itself in your memory cortex. Samurai Cop is what happens when an opportunistic filmmaker wants to make his own take on Lethal Weapon but lacks nearly everything needed to do so, the film is a complete mess but a hugely entertaining one at that.

its a really good movie considering the 7 thousand of budgets, lot of nudity unnecessary scenes, and at the end of the movie they stop to using fake blood? at the end of the day its a really fun movie that fulfills the purpose.

The dialogue is top-notch, haha.

It is what you think it will be. That's why i love it. Just wonderful crap. If you love the old 80's style B films then I think you would like this one.

This is one of the worst films I have ever seen. It's like an overproduced porno with no sex (mostly). It is awful. Terrible action sequences, acting and a stupid plotline. It did not even entertain me in an ironic sort of way where you know the movie sucks but delight in its unintended awfulness. Maybe if you're on the right kind of drugs is the only way someone can enjoy this film if they even pay attention to it while watching. It is really really bad. It doesn't even have a redeemable B movie flavor like American Ninja or one of those straight to video Van Damme films. It just plain sucks. 20/100 F- (I gave it some points because you can tell that they tried yet failed miserably).

Samurai Cop is my favorite so-bad-its-good movie, no contest. This is one of the most unintentionally funny movies you will ever see. Clearly trying to rip off 80's actioners (Lethal Weapon...), with a discount Stallone, it almost comes across as a legitimate film, and then somehow misses the mark so insanely that the end result is outrageously hilarious. Read a little bit of the backstory before you watch it, and it will make it even more entertaining. The obvious wig reshoots will amuse you, the bizarre dialogue (both in writing and delivery) will baffle you, and the gratuitous and poorly placed sex sequences are both laugh out loud funny, and grossly excessive.

Although "marred" by continuity errors, lighting errors, VFX errors, sound errors and the like - also unfortunately front-loaded with a particularly amateurish and discontinuous car chase, the film is worth watching for comedy value. Film focuses on the crime-busting martial arts, gun battle violence and revealing bedroom scenes of Joe Marshall, an imported cop with elite Japanese martial arts training - not much is made of the character's backstory, nor is the film really forgivable for the hard-boiled salad of off-color race, ethnicity and gender jokes that don't really land, but are sometimes so hilariously bad in terms of their delivery, you'll want to re-watch key scenes throughout. Fun movie, not really appealing in any meaningful way, other than being a not-overly-expensive martial arts/shootout flick with a few concepts cribbed from Coppola's Godfather classics. Often hilarious, also really "bold" for including so many absurd film-making errors. Some quality descriptive dialogue also, though more of an action movie than an actor's piece.

A master peice in cinima. There is nothing else like this amazing experience. Would recommend. 10 Japanese swords out of 10.