dir. Amir Shervan
Samurai Cop is a classic disaster movie. Not in the sense that the plot revolves around a disaster, more that its entire concept and execution are themselves a total disaster. Joe is a cop who has allegedly been trained as a samurai, although his skills seem to amount to bulging his eyes and raising his fists. As he and his partner Frank aim to take down “the Katana gang” (this idiotic name for a Japanese crime group is somehow not the most racist thing in the movie), they indulge in pathetic action sequences – mostly either limp-wristed slap fights or relentless gunfire which almost never hits its target – and tepid car chases. This is all interspersed with slow lingering shots of softcore porn, fuelled by the fact that every single woman in Samurai Cop is depicted as desperately horny at all times. Samurai Cop is not as forgettable as a typical bad action film though, instead marking its uniqueness through bizarre moments like characters bursting into spontaneous laughter during a tense confrontation, utterly confounding racist and misogynistic lines which come out of nowhere, a heinously terrible wig, and a guy running around on fire in an over-the-top spectacle that was clearly not safe from a production perspective. A thoroughly entertaining disaster from beginning to end.
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