No, it’s not a lost John Belushi sketch from the early Saturday Night Live years, and no, it wouldn’t be better if it were. This one’s a favorite of Ed Wood-level so-bad-it’s-good connoisseurs. It stars former set carpenter Matt Hannon as Joe Marshall, a cop with a Fabio-worthy mane and (alleged) samurai training that enables him to wield a katana sword and think like the Yakuza gang that has the city paralyzed. His partner is Frank Washington (Mark Frazer), maybe the most painfully clichéd African-American comic-relief sidekick in modern film history.
Chief bad guy is Robert “Maniac Cop” Z’Dar himself, doing a yellowface performance as katana-wielding Yamashita. The final showdown between Z’Dar and Hannon is the stuff of Quentin Tarantino’s nightmares, but the rest of Amir Shervan’s movie is just as hilariously inept. Between its dialogue, camera work, chase scenes, sex scenes, and fight scenes, this could be the Plan 9 From Outer Space of buddy-cop films.
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