Extremely Funny!!
Added 10/23/2008
Ok, so if you have a twisted sense of humor, like maybe you love to watch train wrecks or fat kids try to jump hurdles, you'll get a kick out of this flick. This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. People tend to think I like bad movies, that's actually not true. The companion movie to this one, Omega Cop, (a prequel I assume)is not funny at all. In fact it's incredibly boring.
Karate Cop however is a champ.
The first thing you will notice is that people's names keep repeating in the opening credits, just their jobs change. This movie stars many of the same people as Omega Cop, but switches the roles up. Ronald L. Marchini is once again "John Travis" fighting as the last member of the "special police" left alive in a world full of mad max style gangs. It's full of ridiculous chracters, really horrible script writing, impossible action sequences, and oh yeah, David Carradine makes a cameo as the owner of a Honkey Tonk bar serving stupid huge bowls of "Rabbit Stew".
One of the funniest things about this flick is the soundtrack, it's all homemade and really really bad. But not like bad synthesizer music, well there's a lil of that too. It's like a few people got drunk, went out to the garage and wrote some songs for Marchini to kick butt to. But you have to understand why this movie is funny. It's funny because everyone involved is completely serious and absolutely trying their complete level best to make a good feature. And it's so freakin horrible!! That's what's funny, think William Hung, American Idol. This thing is also loaded with 80's style awesome one liners.
Plot premise- For those that care,
The story takes place at some undifined point in the future where gangs rule the earth and chase women all over the place trying to capture them as slaves. Enter John Travis (Marchini) and his dog. Travis is the last cop alive and enters the movie by rescuing "Rachel" from one of the gangs. In her gratitude she offers Travis a "hot meal." On the way to her place, of course, they are attacked by a gang of leperous bums with shopping cart bombs, broken pallets, and a lisping leader with a whip named "Snake." It grows from there. Eventually he has to fight everybody and save the girl and what not, and of course collect crystals from religous nuts who are into human sacrifice to repair a teleporter to save a kabillion kids or some kakamanie crap. But of course the bad guys want the crystals too so they can transport drugs.
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one of the worst movies i have ever seen
Added 8/4/2007
So I didn't have high hopes going into this, but this movie turned out to be just pathetic. I honestly can not name one good thing about this film. I purchased Karate Cop mainly cause David Carradine is in it (Martial Law, Kung Fu Series). His character is nearly pointless and lasts no more than 5 minutes, before getting shot. My last hope was in the martial arts tournament the movie advertises - that was a complete joke too.
Karate Cop is another lousy martial arts flick set in a run-down future, where there is no police force and the whole world is just about corrupt. Ron Marchini stars as the last cop on Earth, Travis, and rescues a young woman from dirty thugs. He helps her on a quest to find a crystal to enable a trsporting device to transport her and her homeless kids far away. Just downright cheesy and awful story that is extremely slow and boring, filled with unbelievable cheesy charcaters, horrible acting, and lousy action that is both limited and looks very poor.
There is a final fight between Travis and the tournament's big bad guy, taking place in a run down building. It lasts several minutes, but it too is a bad fight, filled with poor camera angles and editing.
Just about every action or martial arts film out there is better than this one, so save your time and money and stay away from this C-movie.
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I am ashamed to own this video
Added 2/22/1999
I bought this video in the bargain bin for $2. I now know that I have completed wasted the money and also lost 2 hours from my life by watching it. I'm not surprised that it hasn't be re-released but I'm amazed that it was released in the first place. The acting is poor, the story is incoherent, the action is sloppy and couldn't be more poorly done. I'm sure that any high school drama class with a video camera and a combined IQ of more than 80 could do better. Final advice: Clip your toenails instead of watching this movie, at least it would be more entertaining.
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