Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

One of my all time favorites.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

If it's bad enough for the old MST3K crew, then it's really not worth the time spent suffering through it on your own. You are in much better hands if you go with the Rifftrax version of Samurai Cop. Mike, Bill and Kevin (my personal favorite of the 3) will gladly take one for the team. Comparisons with The Room are appropriate but only because I don't buy in on the cult status of that flick. Don't bother unless you're funnier than Rifftrax. Which ain't likely. I include myself in that. This movie is not "purposely" funny. The filmmakers made what they thought was a decent film with Steve Carrel in a wig. Their line, not mine.

The Room is way more incompetent and filled with random stuff like plot holes and random threads that go nowhere.This film is more professional, whatever that means in the B-film world.The Room is total incompetence, this one is total cheese. Police station promiscuity totally out in the open, a cop who trained by the masters in Japan to become a Samurai does not know the difference between Aikido or Idaho, casual racist jokes, random nudity and sex scenes... bad takes, some accidentally great takes (there are two world class scenes, the cop boss getting angry and a tracking show on the street). Look, it has everything. These guys could've made a 7/10 cheesy cop movie if they just gave this more thought or had one professional on their team, but they made a 9/10 bad film.This is the gold standard of bad films. It's not the worst film in the world, but it's the most entertaining terrible film. Birdemic and co. are not as good.The sequel is total crap and a blatant money grab.

Sometimes I give honest IMDb grades for quality. Others are like this where it's so freaking entertaining that this needs a higher grade than Batman v Superman. Seriously, for several months I've had an obsession with this before seeing it. I finally bought and it doesn't disappoint. You can watch Samurai Cop tell a horny nurse, "I love what I see," a hundred times and never cease to laugh at how bad it is. I don't think you could make a movie this bad if you even tried to. This movie even grows better each time you see it. The fact half the movie is a re-shoot causes so much discontinuity in the setting, lighting and even hair lengths that you won't even see the reflections of camera men and boom mics. I promise, this is truly so bad it's good. Not one scene is boring.

Japanese gang the Katana take control of the cocaine trade in Los Angeles, so the LAPD transfer in a cop from the San Francisco to help tackle the problem. Joe Marshall has been trained by the masters in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese, but dresses like Def Leppard.Joe and his fourth wall breaking partner Frank confront the Katana at a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard and attempt to reprimand them into obeying the law. When that fails Fujiyama's right-hand man Yamashita wages war against them, executing his own men who fail to subdue Joe and Frank, thus maintaining the code of silence, and destroying a lot of unused cars.Unable to contain his typecast anger any longer, Captain Rohmer sanctions an assassination on the Katana. Joe and Frank head to Fujiyama's compound to gun down every living extra and of course, that showdown between Samurai Cop, and Maniac Cop.To be honest, I was really fooled by the DVD cover of this movie. I was expecting another Maniac Cop type film with Z'Dar as another psycho cop, but this time wielding a Samurai sword.But what I got was a gift from the gods.I was bough up on a diet of straight to video Kung Fu movies, starring the likes of Billy Blanks, Bolo Yeung, Jeff Speakman, Richard Norton, and many more. So as soon as I saw the titular cop, and his partner, I knew that this would be something special.It's not a good film, I cannot urge that enough, it's all over the place with its bad editing, poor acting, and terrible ADR, but my gosh, the makers having gone beyond their means to give us something so entertaining.Karedas here is the titular Cop, who apparently knows nothing about the art of the Samurai, but is fluent in the art of the eighties Martial Arts done by a westerner, just kick really slow, and be impervious to any sort of violence that be-throes you, and he has great hair........and is your atypical sexist pig.His partner does nothing much more than pull funny faces at the camera, and comment about the colour of his skin, but they pull off this really odd 'playground imitating' Lethal Weapon vibe that is as bad/good as it sounds.There are wigs galore, and the fight between SC and the bad guy from TMNT is literally Hair Raising. If you thought Kate Maras wig in Fant4stic was poor, she has nothing on this hairpiece.When extras get shot, they fall in the most wonderful way, and if that wasn't enough, there is the campest waiter trying to chameleon a Bronson Pinchot vibe from Beverly Hills Cop, and exceeds it.It's a terrible film, but by George, it's one of the most entertaining things I've seen since this Friday nights back between 1988-1983.The perfect Bad Movie....