Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance [Blu-ray/DVD Combo]

American cinema has a number of defining films in its history from timeless classics like Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, Maltese Falcon and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to more contemporary examples like Glory, The Shawshank Redemption, No Country for Old Men and 12 Years a Slave. The original Samurai Cop, despite the fact that there was no actual cop-who-was-also-a-samurai, ascended in rank to stand shoulder to shoulder with cinematic giants. Decades later, its sequel Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance attempted a similar feat.To this end, the producers of the film pulled no punches: they resurrected the careers of the original stars Mathew Karedas and Mark Frazier, franchise icons who have a combined 9 acting roles between them according to their IMDB profiles. In addition, Bai Ling of Crow fame joins the high-energy cast along with Lexi Belle, Kayden Kross and Tommy Wiseau.Tommy Wiseau demonstrates his acting range in this film, convincingly portraying a grief stricken underworld boss in one scene, a collected and competent leader in another, and - finally - a raving lunatic who is so emotionally compromised that he can barely utter a coherent sentence in another scene. To this effect, Wiseau's acting is calculated and so naturally delivered that a casual audience member would conclude that he was incompetent and didn't know his lines. Masterful.In the end, there are few movies I could recommend as highly as Samurai Cop 2. It has earned its place on my shelf next to Citizen Kane, Manborg and the original Samurai Cop. It will be a classic my household revisits for years to come.

In short, Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance manages spectacularly to capture the unique essence of the original Samurai Cop (senseless plotting, tonal inconsistency, awkward dialogue) while still making something worth watching. It's not simply an homage. SC2 is a love letter to every mindless, inappropriate, politically incorrect, zany buddy cop action movie. Random alien killer robots. Abrupt lesbian sex scenes. Obvious betrayals and twists. There's no real way to explain how. Words fail me. Watch the movie.Bai Ling and Tommy Wiseau are in it. One of them is a genius film maker and the other is an unbelievably sexy foreigner. Which one is which?

Mesmerizing zaniness. You are here because you saw Samurai Cop 1 and found it hilarious. This movie tries it's best to be a good bad movie - and succeeds. It's for a certain audience. But if you found Gymkata, Deadly Prey, Deathwish 3, or Trolls 2 to be hilarious - than you will dig this.

Do you like watching porn stars struggle through dialog? Do you want to waste an evening trying to follow a garbage script? Do you want to have the sinking feeling a director included a bunch of female breasts just to sell DVDs?The sad part is, the original stars of Samurai Cop really try. They take their roles as seriously as they can, clearly trying to prove they have real chops. You just have to hope you can hear them over obnoxiously loud and out of place music, or to be able to see their acting through terrible lighting and awful camerawork. Even the makeup is garbage. Simple concepts like powdering an actor's face to reduce glare are apparently out of this filmmaker's comfort zone.Only worth it if you fast forward through the stupid parts to watch the original stars eating up the screen. Matt Hannon, the Samurai Cop, turns in the sort of performance any amateur actor would love to have on tape. It's the definition of a guy taking a bad role to get his face on screen, and if the whole movie was like that, it would be good. But it's not.Try to have some friends around and try not to roll your eyes too hard when you see an extra yawning in the background becuase of how boring it was on set. Sigh at plastic props. Try not to turn the film off then you notice the director added fake smoke in post so it doesn't even move with the camera, it looks like you're watching a smoke machine blowing over a movie screen. What a disaster, and not in a fun way. It's just a stupid cash grab. Skip it.

If you're all out of hallucinogens...this is the movie for you.

Samurai Cop 2 is the definition of a fan film. This was born out of a kickstarter campaign, and the love for the original movie really shines through. It doesn't mean the sequel is good or bad, but the passion is obvious.Samurai Cop 1 and 2 really reminds me of Deadly Prey and Deadliest Prey. The sequels, made decades after the fan-loved original, represent more of a friendly revisiting of the source material more than an actual attempt at making a true film. Samurai Cop 2 features a TON of cameos from the first film. That's a big part of the fun of watching it. There's also tons of nudity.What I didn't like about SC2 was 1) The terrible soundtrack and 2) the plot doesn't quite gel. It's all over the place and doesn't really flow. 3) The CGI blood isn't overly impressive.I'd give it more of a 3.5/5. I enjoyed watching it, but it's not great. Fun for cameos and to see our two partners team up again to kick some you know what.

Came in great. Thank you.

Honestly, it's just a horrible film, and the rest of the film is just mailing it in. SC2 wasn't campy bad as the first Samurai Cop -- the latest installment was just bland. On the flipside, it has Tommy Wiseau doing Tommy Wiseau things and speaking the way only Tommy Wiseau can -- which makes up for the lack of effort. If you're a fan of The Room, you'll love this; however, if you're expecting all the things that made the first Samurai Cop enjoyable, don't hold your breath.

Fantastic !

Even though this is an american import, played on my uk blu ray player. So would appear to be a region free release

There's one adage that seems to ring true, you can't make crap on purpose. Well you can but it will always have the stink of artifice about it.The original Samurai Cop was a glorious example of "so bad it's good" film making. The overacting, the mugging, the line delivery, Mathew Karedas' mankini and so much more. It culminated in a product that was greater than the sum, of it's parts and made a run of the mill cheesy 80's buddy cop movie into the stuff of legends. Fast forward to 2015 and through crowd funding we got the long awaited sequel. Actors are older, Mathew Karendas still has a magnificent mane of hair and the dialogue and acting is the same. But it's dull and lifeless.The problem is that they're trying too hard to be like the old movie. When in the original something happened, Mark Frazer would give his surprised "O" face and it was quirky. Now, it's calculated. When Mathew gave a bad line delivery in the original it came out funny,now it's written specifically that way. When Tommy Wiseau tries to act we know he's "acting" the way that people want him to act and it's not funny like he was in "The Room" because that was natural and this isn't.And that's the problem. The movie isn't natural. The laughs we got from the first one were from it's sheer ineptness. Instead of trying to recapture that or go in a different direction they instead try to do exactly what made the first one and it's just not the same.I tried to give this one a go. Twice in fact. I haven't been able to get through more than thirty minutes of it before turning it off in sheer boredom. Give me the original. Give me "Troll 2". Give me "The Room" and "Birdemic". And keep movies that try to be grade Z movies without understanding the magic they actually hold in the wastepaper basket where they belong.