A police revenge thriller. Let me repeat, a police revenge thriller. Instead of saving people, we have a faceless cop figure, killing people. He's Matt Cordell, (love the name) or he's better known as the maniac cop, who's out tonight, again on the prowl. He's a cop who went too far in an incident, where unlike Freddy and Jason, who's faces were burned, his face was cut up, during his prison sentence, and we know how much prisoners love cops, especially when it's personal. Now back out, we too can feel his rage, but this unstoppable figure must be stopped someway. Matt, who's face we never see, or voice we never hear, is out to kill everyone, including known cop associates. It's a real bitch too, when this cop was spose' to be thought dead. One cop, a familiar face in a lot of other cop movies, who has trouble smiling, is the only one who still believes Cordell to be alive, especially in the aftermath of a series of murders, some of them quite gruesome. This one is the most violent in it's series. On the surface, this is just a revenge cop movie of death in numbers, but while being an inventive small flick with a quite good background story, that's really all it is that carries it. We know too the scripts in good hands from the pen of Larry Cohen, and Robert D'zar who carries the title, is a new acting force to be reckoned with. For horror revenge buffs, who should get their five bucks worth.
Review of Maniac Cop
