7/10
Decent Enough
11 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Not to confuse this movie with the Martinez one, but this has Maniac Cop as the killer. Talk about being miscast. It's a tragedy of justice, just like Kane Hodder being miscast as farm killer Ed Gein.

I'll tell you who Robert Z'Dar would have been well cast as: the Night Slasher in Stallone's "Cobra." By the movie's end, this resembles that very movie.

The calm before the storm begins as the Night Slasher, aka Maniac Cop, pays a hooker what looks like two $1 notes. Oh mama, she strips off and reveals herself to be a 9.

At first, she was the lead singer from The Seekers, but now she's Princess Leia, minus the metallic Jabba bikini. She's worth more than two bucks. If that's Maniac Cop standing there in the dark, then he's dressed like a life member of the Blue Oyster Bar from "Police Academy." Like the old 80s handheld Nintendo game "Octopus," she goes down and tries to bag some treasure, but this offends Maniac Cop, and he gets rough with her.

Suffering from a Matthias Hugh's complex, in the movie "Black Belt," Maniac Cop has flashbacks of his relationship with his own mother, which infuriates him, and for no reason he backhands her to the floor. No chivalry here.

Come on, she's too pretty to be manhandled in this fashion.

More backhands come, and she's pleading already. What the hell? She just pumped five bullets and one defensive bullet into Maniac Cop, and he continued on and snapped her neck like a KitKat? Who is he, Captain America?

A Japanese ritual ensues, in which he paints her face Kabuki style and draws all these Asian symbols all over her body. It's not explained what this Japanese connection is even though he studies in Chinatown with Chinese masters. Hmm.

The eviscerated police officer from "Silence of the Lambs," Lt. Boyle, wakes up in his tighty-whities all sweaty and sporting a buff body like Super Macho Man. He's packing some serious inches.

A fight at a hamburger stand breaks out between Lt. Boyle and Dynamo on his day off from work, and it's only until Miami Vice show up that orderly conduct is restored. Violence against Cynthia Rothrock sees Lt. Boyle bash her over the head with a beach chair.

Dynamo's head is grilled on the hamburger plate and is undercooked, not to my liking. If I'm going to be eating a human head whole, I want it well done.

The dead police officer from "Silence of the Lambs," Lt. Boyle, not only packs some serious inches, but he also packs a Desert Eagle in this movie, and he just blasted some liquor store robbers away with the force of the gun, sending them five yards through the air. Man, it doesn't work like that in real life.

One slippery liquor store robber managed to elude capture until he was chased down, cornered, and shot. He then fell 10 stories onto a blue air mattress, which is clearly visible down below. Hmm.

A long time between drinks sees the Maniac Cop pick up another lady of the night, and he speaks some weird lingo in a light, trebled voice that's not English. The Maniac Cop keeps chanting the following mantra, and I'll do my best to translate it.

"Lee wing Lillian, say water." It's some sort of Zodiac code.

This ain't the Richard Ramirez story.

A lot of politically incorrect moments that go against today's times see an undercover police sting try and snare Maniac Cop, but his time is limited in this movie to make way for a lot of hilarious comedic relief.

Speak of the devil, and he picks up Barbie in a cab.

They're not showing his face for some reason.

An unannounced police officer encounters the third victim and Maniac Cop at the same time, and he's thrown out a five-story window for entering without a warrant.

Body's start to fall thick and fast, and this is definitely the work of Cordell, as bullets do nothing to phase him.

Cordell, cornered in the end, goes all Rambo and is pursued by a whole precinct of officers.

Everyone must be using blanks, as he's now been hit more than twenty times.

He's some sort of T-1 million Terminator.

It takes a flare gun to dispose of him in the end. Isn't this where the Night Slasher perished as well? I really thought Cordell would come back one last time at the end there. They always do. Not this time though. I could just see him jumping out of that fire pit and trying his hand one last time.

I had to rewatch the start of this movie again to see the first victim's body. Her name is Lydie Denier.

Some French invader who was in a bunch of other crap that doesn't look too appealing.

She was born in 1964, so that would make her a dinosaur today.

She was yummy in 1986 but I'll fold today.

I guess you could say that Lt. Boyle was a poster boy for senior citizens back in the day and put some sizzle into their mundane lives with his Desert Eagle package?
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