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Good movie but grossly overrated

A Masterpiece!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

So many WTF moments, so many laughs, so much terrible. This is a great movie! Lots of fun to watch and provides more entertainment in its ineptitude than 99% of the studio movies with 1000X the budget. Classic cheese!

Make no mistake, this is a bad movie. Everything about it is wrong from start to end. But this is one of those rare movies that is "so bad it's good". It deserves a place with such movies like "The Room", "Birdemic: Shock and Horror", "Troll 2" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space".The plot is standard buddy cop stuff. Two new partners, one of whom is the titular "Samurai Cop" join up to take down a bunch of Japanese drug dealers known as the "Katana Gang". Don't ask why because it's not like they carry katanas around with them at all times. Maybe they just thought it sounded cool.His partner is the wise talking black man who gives the greatest facial expressions based on the situation. The scene were Samurai Cop is trying to pick up a nurse, it keeps flipping back and forth to the black guy and his expressions are funnier than the admittedly funny and ad-libbed scene before him.The women in it are all beautiful and honestly look like porn stars. They're also either portrayed as being beautiful, domestic or sexy in the bedroom. There seems to be no other purpose for them.And the final scene between Samurai Cop and B-movie legend Robert Z'Dar is beautiful. It's a sped up sword fight, using katanas, because neither one could wield a sword properly.This did get a direct to DVD sequel that came out last year but it's nowhere near as fun as this one. Avoid the sequel and just watch this. If you're a lover of bad movies you need to see it.

If it's bad enough for the old MST3K crew, then it's really not worth the time spent suffering through it on your own. You are in much better hands if you go with the Rifftrax version of Samurai Cop. Mike, Bill and Kevin (my personal favorite of the 3) will gladly take one for the team. Comparisons with The Room are appropriate but only because I don't buy in on the cult status of that flick. Don't bother unless you're funnier than Rifftrax. Which ain't likely. I include myself in that. This movie is not "purposely" funny. The filmmakers made what they thought was a decent film with Steve Carrel in a wig. Their line, not mine.

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 (!).