Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I have enjoyed watching all the other 6 Police Academy over the years, but I have to say I was bitterly disappointed with Academy 7, what were they thinking. I thought it was a load of rubbish, to the point where we couldn't even finish watching it, it was so ridiculous, not in a good funny way either. Shame on your for spoiling what we have thoroughly enjoyed over the years. Should have left it at 6.

Putting it as simply as I can so as to truly convey my contempt for this film: many of us have heard people use the line "two hours of my life I'll never get back" to describe a movie they disliked, and there really isn't anyone alive who doesn't find that phrase old and tired. This is the only movie I've ever bothered to use a version of that line on (thankfully, it's only 83 minutes, not two hours) out loud, because no other obscenity-free phrase describes it.I've seen some terrible movies in my day, but up until sitting through this one I never found myself actually ANGRY at a movie for being terrible. This movie is supposed to be a comedy, and I'm not exaggerating at all when I say I found it to be ONE HUNDRED PERCENT laugh-free. There's not even a single accidental funny moment anywhere in all 83 minutes. Awful. Horrible.I implore anyone who hasn't seen this movie yet to avoid it like the plague. Your 83 minutes could be spent better doing almost anything else.

The final nail is hammered into the coffin. Grossing less than $1,000,000 at the US box office and for good reason. The film relies on jokes about the Russians and their accents. Even Hooks, Hightower and Hurst fail to reappear. Gaynes is given top-billing, but is reduced to a "lost in Russia" subplot. Bailey has nobody to play off making his character the downer for the first time. He needs a Proctor to riff with. Lee and Perlman do their best with bad accents, but just aren't interesting. Winslow, Graf and Easterbrook are used too much, making their characters do things we're not familiar with. Schlatter is a kind of Mahoney, but he's never truly likable. Bad jokes, wasted characters, and a sense that nobody cares about what is going on, leaves this film as useless as you'd expect.

Easily the worse comedy I've seen to date. Everything was horrible about this film. You get the feeling that when they were halfway through filming this heap they must've said to each other "You know, this film is truly going to die at the box office, let just do any old crap, film it and send that out to the cinemas. They'll buy it, it got Police Academy written on the box after all".The best bit that just completely sums up how bad the film was ***SPOILER WARNING*** (Like I'll spoil anything anyway lol) was when Jones and Tackleberry go to collect lassarde from his hotel room. They arrive outside his door and they become suspicious that all is not well inside. So they decide to investigate. Now at this point you'd think Tack would simply kick the door open and shout "Freeze", as is normal procedure for cops to do in America. No, not for this film, they decided that the methods for kicking doors down was downright silly. Instead Tack decides he needs the aid of an Icebucket...on his head. Clearly when he went through the academy they showed him differently the way to gain entry into a locked room - by putting a bucket on your head and ramming it against the door presumably. He puts a hole through the door anyway, stands up, takes the ice bucket off his head, sighs and then walks away with Jones without even going inside to investigate. All that stupidity for nothing and not one bit funny, logical or rational. ***SPOILER OVER*** I think about halfway through the film I began to realise this was not getting any better. I found myself becoming entertained by the site of my dog licking her rear in front of me. It was funnier too.Anyway I recommend you to watch this "film" just purely to see how bad the series had become and to find out just how bad films can be in general. On the other hand I recommend you NOT to watch it if you want to stop your brain melting out of your ear holes with boredom.