Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015)

Let's get this out of the way right at the start; Samurai Cop II is far too self- referential for its own good. And that's not really a good thing overall. It lacks the thunderingly inept, yet earnest appeal of the original. On the other hand, it is not quite the schlock-by-numbers knowingness of Asylum releases like Sharknado, Mega Shark, Sharktopus and (surely some time soon) the Sharkshank Redemption or maybe Sharks & Recreation. Guys, if you read this, help yourselves to those last two suggestions gratis.However... Matt and Mark are back together as partners and they seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves. There are nods to fans of bad movies and the riffing thereof, in the casting of Tommy Wiseau and Joe Estevez. There's even a character called Officer Z'Dar, in an affectionate tribute to the late B-movie legend who was the bad guy in the original 'Samurai Cop'.Otherwise, it looks like everyone's family and drinking buddies were invited to fill out the cast, along with young women willing to take their tops off at the drop of an Eighties cliché. There is a welcome sprinkling of original cast members, some of which have aged better than others.But overall, this is a garbled and gratuitous mess. Maybe a proper sequel could never really be made in the modern era, where every trope is extensively discussed and laughed at online. These days, genuinely bad films are made by the likes of Michael Bay or feature characters like Jar-Jar Binks... and they're not fun-bad. I hope I'm wrong, but the movie world seems to have lost an innocent something; the "heroic failure" factor. People who aimed for the epic, but achieved magnificent wretchedness.

Boy did this movie ever sour my mood, where to start..... let's state this fact right from the start, Samurai Cop 2 = Exhibit A for "repulsive modern film-making."While sitting down and settling in - popcorn at hand, the opening credits begin to roll and you think you're in for an incredibly great bad movie, (LIKE THE FIRST MOVIE!!!) because it's just one bad actor after another, you have the "stars" from the first movie, Joe and Frank, then along for the ride comes, Tommy Wiseau (of, The Room fame), plus Charlie Sheen's uncle as the chief of police, the one the only Joe Estevez.Probably the biggest mistake is that they barely show the star of the show, Joe Marshall, who's IS in fact THE Samurai Cop, hardly at all (except for a few brief flashback scenes) for what seems like the first 25 minutes of the movie. Big mistake there. The audience is certainly NOT expecting to have to wait for the star, the Samurai Cop, to appear. There's an innumerable amount things wrong with Samurai Cop 2 (que the rap music yall'!) making for a completely unwatchable, trainwreck of movie. The first Samurai Cop was a lot of fun to watch, NOT SO for the sequel. A cringe-a-minute affair, that sinks to the extreme low's of having pornstars masquerading as actual actors; take Lexi Belle for instance, sure she's cute and may give great head, but her acting skills are non-existent. If she had been relegated to a stripper in the background, with no lines, that would have been acceptable, but she was all over the movie. Bad Move! Oh yeah, and not forgetting Kayden Kross and Zoey Monroe, two other pornstar's who also can not act, their presence further degrades this most odious of direct-to-video excrement. These people need to stay in their own chosen domain of the film industry. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-porn at all, but these starlets ought to be more aware of their limitations; because these are the Glowing Result's of them "branching out".A most disappointing sequel and easily one of the worst ever, possessing NONE of the low-budget charm that the original Samurai Cop (a Masterpiece of the so-bad-it's-good genre) has in near-infinite abundance. So if movies loaded with illogical scenes (and even some unresolved scenes), terribly cheap looking special-effects, neon-hued color saturation, shaky and uneven camera pans, hideous soundtracks consisting of rap and soft rock "music" and worst of all, brain-dead casting that has pseudo-actor's (I.E. so-called talent that was dredged up from the porn industry) filling nearly every role, well than have at it! Personally I can't hate this gratingly irritating and disgustingly trashy movie enough. Delete your files - burn your DVD's!Look at it this way, if Samurai Cop 2 were a drink it would be a hell's brew of: raw sewage, curdled goat's milk, vinegar and the pus from a yeast infection, topped off with flakes of smegma and lastly (and to address the movies gaudy, super-saturated color scheme) the contents of a glow-stick swirled into the mix. Thus completing, "Samurai Cop 2 The Drink".I HATE HATE HATE this movie.See you at the Razzie's chumps!Update: ROTFL! I've noticed a handful of reviewers, some of who actually worked on this POS - well evidently their bias runs deep, VERY DEEP - rated this a "10" or in other words a "perfect movie". WTF???!!!!!

It's 25 years later, and after Jennifer is brutally killed, Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall.It seems that an old enemy has resurfaced, and they have to solve a series of assassinations being committed by a secret group of female vigilante killers......When I saw the first Samurai Cop, I was dazzled by just how entertainingly bad the film was. It was a marvel of cinematic exploitative trash, it took me back to the early nineties, and I loved every minute of it.I never read anything about the sequel, I was under the impression that it was a rushed released film to cash in on the cult status that SC1 was bound to gain, much in the vein of King Of The Kickboxers, of Eye Of The Eagle.I had no idea that it was literally made last year, and most of the cast had come back from beyond obscurity.It's no surprise that it doesn't live up to the 'so bad it's good' label that SC1 has, but for sheer nostalgia value, it's good fun while it lasts.The writers know that what made SC1 so popular was the poor editing, the bad action, and the unintentional cheesiness the whole film had. So it's pretty impossible to recreate that 'magic', so they go for broke and decide to make the whole thing as bonkers as they can.And for the most part it works, having Frank have some weird, drug induced dreams that appear to have him being in a TV show is quite leftfield, but we've seen it before in Natural Born Killers and Crank 2. And Joe breaking the fourth wall makes the viewer smile, but only because I brings back memories of SC1.And this is the films fundamental problem, we've seen it all before, and no matter how many of the original cast you can bring back from obscurity, or having the stunt casting of Tommy Wiseau as the main villain, you are just yearning for the for SC1.And what makes SC1 so unique is that it was made in a time where on screen sexism, gratuitous violence, and sheer awful acting was accepted. It wasn't trying to be meta, hip, or clever, it was aimed for people who just wanted to see people kick ten bells out of somebody else, and not having to worry about following a narrative, because every one of these films followed the same rules: Introduction, Fight, Loss, Revenge, Get The Girl.......Fin.So in the 25 years that have passed, the film, and pretty much the cast have been lost in translation. The film isn't going to win any new fans, because it tries to hard to be something it isn't, and for people who haven't seen the original for sometime, it may be a crushing disappointment.My advice, see the original first, and then this straight after.After the shock of seeing Frank go from Fabio to Skeletor, you may appreciate it more than you should.

Samurai Cop 2, a sequel to it's first movie 25yrs later from the original "Samurai Cop"(with the late Robert Zdar)is destined to become another great cult film to add to your library!!The return of original cast member Mathew Karedas is in even better shape now, continuing to kick punch chop and swing his mighty sword to destroy evil!! but wait! there's more , it has legendary "BAD GUY" Mel Novak who always make it a big challenge for the "good guys" to win ! may I mention the beautiful sexy women in this film as well , like Bai ling ,Laurene Landon,Joycelyn Lew and many more !!!! Nonstop action and humor that makes you beg for more!!!