Samurai Cop

You have the right to remain silent. Dead silent.

SAMURAI COP (18)

D: Amir Shervan

Hollywood Royal Pictures (Orlando Corradi & Amir Shervan)

US 1991

96 mins

Action/Crime

W: Amir Shervan

DP: Peter Balian

Ed: Ruben Zadurian & Amir Shervan

Mus: Alan DerMarderosian

Matt Hannon (Joe Marshall), Robert Z'Dar (Yamashita), Mark Frazer (Frank Washington), Cranston Komuro (Fuj Fujiyama), Janis Farley (Jennifer)

Samurai Cop is a 1991 direct to video action movie which many people would consider "so bad, it's good."

Matt Hannon plays the title character, although he's just a standard cop, the only reference to samurai in this movie is the fact that the bad guys are Japanese.

The film is so poorly made that it will provoke laughter rather than thrills and spills. The performances are all atrocious, especially Matt Hannon, who wears a pathetically unconvincing wig in several scenes due to reshoots.

It is bad, but nowhere near the 'So Bad It's Good' reputations of Troll 2 or The Room (qv). Still, it has gained a huge cult following due to its general awfulness and even generated a sequel, 24 years later.

3/10