I have managed to sit through all three of the "Maniac Cop" movies, despite the fact that the first one was actually just a mediocre movie. But I did remember the first movie fondly from my teenage years, but having returned to the series as an adult, the sparkle has faded and the reality has set in.
"Maniac Cop 2" continues right where the first movie left off, and that is good, because it establishes a great sense of continuation to the movie. However, that was essentially all it had. "Maniac Cop 2" turned out to be even more mundane and boring than the first movie.
The storyline in "Maniac Cop 2" was just downright, and pardon my French here, ridiculous. It was so difficult to take the story serious, and I really wonder what had been going through the mind of writer Larry Cohen when he constructed the script for this sequel. Was it perhaps "let's take everything that part one didn't have, but make it worse"?
If you grew up with watching movies during the 1980s and 1990s, then there are some pretty familiar faces on the cast list, which includes Charles Napier, Robert Davi and, of course, Robert Z'Dar as Matt Cordell. It was also nice to see Bruce Campbell return to the movie, although I was quite surprised with his minor role that he had here.
The effects in "Maniac Cop 2" were pretty bad, and they came off more as being laughable than believable. And it made Matt Cordell look more like a hilarious low-budget puppet than it made him look like a mutilated police officer.
"Maniac Cop 2" pretty much suffers from being a sequel as well, because it doesn't reach the first movie to even mid-level. And let's be honest, the first movie wasn't a masterpiece to begin with.
Matt Cordell manages to haul a mere less than mediocre rating of 4 out of 10 stars from me. And I doubt that I ever will make another return to revisit "Maniac Cop 2".
"Maniac Cop 2" continues right where the first movie left off, and that is good, because it establishes a great sense of continuation to the movie. However, that was essentially all it had. "Maniac Cop 2" turned out to be even more mundane and boring than the first movie.
The storyline in "Maniac Cop 2" was just downright, and pardon my French here, ridiculous. It was so difficult to take the story serious, and I really wonder what had been going through the mind of writer Larry Cohen when he constructed the script for this sequel. Was it perhaps "let's take everything that part one didn't have, but make it worse"?
If you grew up with watching movies during the 1980s and 1990s, then there are some pretty familiar faces on the cast list, which includes Charles Napier, Robert Davi and, of course, Robert Z'Dar as Matt Cordell. It was also nice to see Bruce Campbell return to the movie, although I was quite surprised with his minor role that he had here.
The effects in "Maniac Cop 2" were pretty bad, and they came off more as being laughable than believable. And it made Matt Cordell look more like a hilarious low-budget puppet than it made him look like a mutilated police officer.
"Maniac Cop 2" pretty much suffers from being a sequel as well, because it doesn't reach the first movie to even mid-level. And let's be honest, the first movie wasn't a masterpiece to begin with.
Matt Cordell manages to haul a mere less than mediocre rating of 4 out of 10 stars from me. And I doubt that I ever will make another return to revisit "Maniac Cop 2".