pesic-1 This film is so bad and so bizarrely weird, yet it has a lot of charm and countless involuntarily funny moments that watching it is quite amusing. Unlike the utter madness that is Birdemic, this film was made by Amir Shervan, a guy who had genuine ambition and wasn't completely insane, but rather had a total lack of understanding of the American culture, as well as the film medium as such. Also, he seemed not to care that his shots were faulty, that the direction was bad, or that abysmally low production values could not be covered up. Amir combines tremendous energy and love of filmmaking with total ignorance and lack of concern for the actual quality of the final product. He sets up ambitious shots that involve car chases, helicopters, and fight scenes with large numbers of actors, but then he inexplicably ruins them with poor direction, cinematography, or acting. Some of the extras here are among the worst in the history of filmmaking, but the director seems to be fine with their performances, if you can call them that.I will not start listing the faults of this film, because literally every scene has several things wrong with it, from screen writing to camera-work to lighting to set design to acting to directing to editing... And yet it remains a more competent and watchable film than the likes of Birdemic, and it is just tremendous fun. I believe it is largely due to the fact that the actors actually tried to make it work, and because of the director's enthusiasm. Come to think of it, Amir Shervan has a lot in common with Ed Wood. This film is enjoyably bad. Still, it is best to watch it with a group of friends so you can collectively laugh at the silliness. By the way, the sequel is very bad and I would not recommend it to anyone.

Leofwine_draca SAMURAI COP is another hilariously inept action B-movie from the guy who brought us Killing American Style. I think Amir Shervan's earlier film has the edge in terms of out-and-out cheese and comedy, but SAMURAI COP comes a close second. The title's a misnomer, brought about because there are a couple of samurai swords in the film; otherwise this is the usual cops and robbers stuff as upstanding heroes battle gun-toting criminal gang members.This film is so much like Killing American Style it feels like they were shot back to back: the movies share cast members and look and feel exactly the same in terms of staging, fight scenes, etc. The staging is staggeringly inept, with most scenes shot in single takes, and the acting is quite horrible. The main actor, Mathew Karedas, has a long hair style that swaps from being real to a woman's wig and back again as the story goes on (the story is that he had his hair cut short halfway through the production so had to wear a wig for the rest of the filming).SAMURAI COP is a film that nobody can take seriously, so the best thing to do is to sit back and laugh at it. In this respect it becomes something of a gem, an example of so-bad-it's-good entertainment. As with Killing American Style, Robert Z'Dar plays in support as the chief villain. Others must have enjoyed this movie, because a sequel followed in 2014 (!).

Martin Popov Alright, this movie is pretty horrible. It's horrible in so many aspects, which is honestly all of them, to the point where it's actually pretty entertaining.You can just sit there and laugh, goof after goof after goof, it never gets boring. Okay,let me explain how horrible it is.-Cinematography: This movie is ripe with something I like to refer to as forehead shots. There are a lot of scenes in this movie that feature a close up of a character's face. But it isn't a normal close up, rather, 40% of the screen, the distance between the top of a character's head and the top of the screen, will be nothing but empty space, meaning that your eyes will naturally center on a person's shiny polished forehead. Aside from forehead shots, we've got scenes that are filmed in different times of the day and in different places, not natural day to night/place to place transition within the story, but different places for one scene! Imagine this: Main character meets bad guy. Camera switches to bad guy. Daylight. Camera switches to hero. Nighttime and different interior. Overall video quality is poor, as in, old VHS tape poor.The video quality, for a movie that came out in 1991, is sub par. -Audio: The music sounds like something from the Sega Genesis. Music aside, 50% of the entire audio of the movie, is dubbed in a studio. I kid you not.Two guys are going in a car, there is about a 50 meter distance between the camera man and the actors, and when they talk, the audio is perfectly clear. There's also a scene where 3 people have the same identical voice, saying the same identical lines."HEY WAIT UP I WANNA TALK YOU!". Just an example.-Acting: The whole movie feels as if it was shot on one take.The performance is so bad, so generic and more often than not over the top, to the point where the whole movie, turns into one big blooper. The main character, Samurai cop ( who, although the movie states he is fluent in Japanese, he can't pronounce the most basic of Japanese names even if his life depended on it), you just can't relate to him; he is a hulking mass of polished muscles, that is immune to bullets, who has no character development. In fact, all people have no character development. They are the same throughout the movie. There are plenty gun fights in the movie, and whenever somebody dies, the death scenes are really, really exaggerated, and if you pause and look at the "wounds" ,there are no bullet wounds, no ripped cloth or anything, it's just ketchup. The two main characters, Samurai Cop and his buddy, look a lot like the duo from Lethal Weapon, and I mean a lot. -Story: Well, the story is about two detectives investigating a Japanese crime gang, who for some reason, have only one Japanese member, and that's the main boss. Well, they don't do much investigating. In fact, half of the movie is just filler. As in super long needless sex scene filler. ( For some strange reason, the sex scenes are the ONLY part of the movie where the cinematography is okay.). The plot is so simple, linear, and underdeveloped, to the point where there is no plot at all. The film makers knew it, it'll become obvious within the final 20 minutes of the movie; it's like the director said " You know what? We've got nothing, might as well make them go on a rampage and kill everybody. Because that's what normal people do". -Other things to consider: It's offensive to women. The vast majority of female characters, and I mean literally the vast majority, are portrayed as sex objects, nothing more.The poster for the movie, at least the original one, bears heavy similarity to a previous movie poster called Maniac Cop. It's also worth nothing that the two movies shares the same main actor, Robert Z'Dar. I've come to believe that Samurai Cop tried to leech of the popularity of Maniac Cop, which came 3 years earlier. And that's pretty much it. It's horrible, but it's so horrible, you can laugh at it.

ironhorse_iv Samurai Cop has brought dishonor to buddy cop genre, because how badly, made it was. As penance, this action movie has commit seppuku. Director by Amir Shervan, this movie wasn't never released in theaters, and promptly vanished for years, after a failed attempt to find distributors in 1991. It wasn't until 2007 that a mysterious clip from the film was uploaded to Youtube, that most people became aware of this film existence. Still, the film wasn't available until 2010, when a print stored in a vault in Los Angeles was found. From that, a proper DVD was released, shedding some light on the mysterious film. In 2012, rumors of the main actor's demise, became news, but it quickly was proved false, when in 2014, the movie's top star, Matt Hannon miraculously announced that he was still alive amidst the evidence and rumors of his death. Following Matt Hannon's announcement, interest for the movie grew and people finally got to see it, like myself. This action thriller movie tells the story of Officer Joe Marshall (Matt Hannon AKA Matt Karedas) & his partner, the street wise Officer Frank Washington (Mark Frazier) on their journey to take down, a fearsome Japanese crime syndicated known as the Katana. Can 'Samurai Cop' and his buddy stop the evil drug lords from taking control of the streets of Los Angeles or will the Katana gang win out in the end? Watch the movie to find out! Without spoiling the movie, too much, I have to say, this obscure movie has a lot of troubles, during production. First off, director Amir Shervan ran out of money during filming. While, some of the footage was shot during summer 1990, production didn't resume until months later, in 1991. By this point, Matt Hannon had cut his hair which lead to the infamous bad woman wig, being used in half of the reshoots. I like how the wig kept, falling off, during the low budget poorly choreograph sped up fight scenes with the very white, Robert Z'Dar's supposedly Japanese character, Yamashita. It's even funnier, when you find out, that the rest of the Japanese gang is made out of no name, White, Mexican & black guys. Supposedly, Joe Marshall is also supposed to be Japanese, but he looks more like a Chippendale's dancer with shoulder-length women's mullet like hair. I like how the movie states out, that he's fluent in Japanese, but can't pronounce any Japanese words. It's funny how dialogue shots were done with a single take. You can see many of times, the actors messing up their lines or having their lines redub. The movie also spouts out some of the oddly sleaziest & cheesiest exposition lines you've ever heard. The pointless horny nurse scene is infamous for this. The best part of that scene is Mark Frazier's reactions. Amir Shervan also stopped using a boom mic and did all of the secondary character's voices were loop by himself, to save money. It's funny that he badly warped the voices in post-production to try to sound different. His lack of ability to do this correctly means that some of the ADR sounds heavily robotic. It also doesn't help, that the music sounds like 8Bit Nintendo. The absurd doesn't end there. Shervan also could not afford lighting to shoot at night, so the entire film was set during the day. Since, Shervan shot at different times of the day, the movie has this awful yellow tint to it. You can really tell, which ones were the original shots, and which ones were redoes. It's pretty bad that the movie has no establishing shots. Even if they did, the interior and exterior shots don't really look alike. One of the bigger problems of the film, is the editing. The movie is full of awkward jumps cuts. The footage is so short, that it doesn't leave enough room for the editors to do anything, besides that. It's odd, how the movie always cut to nudity or near nudity, after an action piece. While, the women actresses are pretty hot in the film; they are not given much to do, besides sleep with the good guy. The promiscuous helicopter pilot was somewhat offensive. Also the movie tries to be, very serious with its brutality gory nature, but it comes off, laughable due to the cheap effects, and over-the-top acting. Another crime of the film is the misleading poster. Not once, do you get to see, what's the poster is supposedly showing in the film. Very disappointing. Anyways, this Lethal Weapon rip-off, got a Kickstarter sequel, 2015: Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance. I have yet to see it, so I don't know, if it's worth watching. Overall: I could go on and on... and on about this movie, but if I keep going on then I won't leave much for the viewer to see for themselves. This is a true experience of 'it's so bad, it's good'. There is just so much to make fun of. Lots of laughs. Worth checking out just for that.