Director: William Lustig
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural Slasher
Plot:
When another spate of violence against officers occurs, a detective ties them to a previous rampage committed by the undead Maniac Cop Matt Cordell returning to attempt to continue his original quest for vengeance and recruits the two survivors of that rampage to help stop him.
Review:
This one here is incredibly impressive and manages to have a lot of things going for it. The pacing to this one is really great as there's never any downtime at all, it keeps things moving forward smoothly and never really slows down anytime here. This is mainly due to the film's major plus and biggest selling point, the amount of high-end action scenes here, and all of them are exciting and interesting. The car chase to this is excellent, with the disbelieving victims chased around by the villain and continually ramming the car into everything causing tons of damage as well being pretty thrilling, and then the second half where the one survivor finds themselves trapped to the speeding car on the outside and forced to steer the car while hanging onto the door away from speeding traffic and eventually forces an impressive stunt to close things off.
The brawl in the strip club that eventually goes up into the motel room is nice and hard-hitting, although these pale in comparison to the film's big two moments, the assault on the police station and the finale in the prison. The police station one is simply great, starting off in the shooting gallery where after shooting dead the oblivious ones doing shooting practice, makes his way out of the darkness, into the main room and just starts firing away, walking through glass partitions and gunning down anything that moves and then resorting to hand-to-hand brawling as well when necessary. The prison scene is just amazing all around, from where one set on fire crashes through a wall and falls onto a bus parked below, falls through and goes up in flames when the bus explodes, to the way it brings everything around and finally the resolution of the gang and the explosive finale, it's all great and just ends this the right way.
There's also the fact that the Maniac Cop keeps the same look and feel throughout as the scarred face, quiet demeanor, and hulking appearance is kept and it makes the villain appear that much more menacing from the silent walks with the thunderous footfalls of the shoes to the scenes which show him to be invincible. Along with a really nice and impressive body count that's much more than expected and some nice nudity with all the strip club sequences, this has a lot to really like about it. There's really only one flaw to this one, the majority of the kills here tend to use gunshots or being set on fire as the manner of death, and using it for so many in the body count is a little disconcerting. Still, this was all-around a fun slasher.
Overview: *****/5
A far better sequel to a pretty good first film, this one comes off immensely well with so much to like that it holds itself up as a generally superior sequel that holds up incredibly well. Those with an interest in this style of feature, enjoyed the first entry, or are fans of the creative crew will have the most to like here while those turned off by these features might want to heed caution.
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