Please don't spend money on this.

Best movie ever!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It is so bad that I couldn't stop laughing the whole time while watching this. Acting was brutal, dialogue seems Cheesy, and a bit both racist and sexist. Story was filled with plot-holes and inconsistency. Most funniest scenes were the action sequences. I just kept LMAO when the action sequences were playing. Editing and cutting was awful. A single fight scene was taken in 3 different locations. On another scene, wig came off of the main character, and it was clearly visible. Color correction was bad. Screen was getting tinted with blue, purple and pink randomly. All the woman in this film seems like acting in a porn movie. They couldn't hold on to their pants for 5 minutes, after meeting with the main protagonist!!!! In every romantic scene, It felt like watching an Adult movie! Jokes were terrible and funny in the wrong way. Every film maker should watch this film to learn 'how a film shouldn't be made, ever'!

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.

This is really great and fun movie! I watch often with my friends while enjoying beer and always we have good time! Matt Hannon plays the Samurai Cop that always catch the crooks using Samurai skills and police training. But now he must catch the toughest criminal named Fujiyama who has bodyguard named of Yamashita which is played by Robert Z'Dar! I should admit that acting in this movie is not so good except for Robert Z'Dar. But it feels that actors all had fun time to make this exciting action movie. It makes audience smile or laugh when watch it! What my favorite thing in this movie was is Robert Z'Dar with cool beard! With good acting talent Robert Z'Dar perfectly capture role of Japanese man. Amazing!9 of 10 Stars! *********

Los Angeles is terrorized by infamous Japanese The Katana Gang which is involved in gambling,drug smuggling and violent murders.Joe Marshall(Matt Hannon)nicknamed Samurai Cop is an expert in Japanese culture and martial arts.LA Police hire him to stop The Katana Gang led by Fujiyama.Joe with the help of black cop Frank Washington begins bloody battle with Fujiyama,Yamashita(Robert Z'Dar) and their cohorts of muscled criminals."Samurai Cop" is a hilariously inept action flick that really has to be seen to be believed.Chock full of cheesy violence and hilarious action scenes.The dialogue is badly written and there are some silly plot holes.Still the action never lets up and some one-liners are endlessly quotable.There is also plenty of naked female flesh,so I can't complain.8 Katana swords out of 10.Watch it on pair with "Deadly Prey" or "The Stabilizer".