Regie:
William LustigDrehbuch:
Larry CohenKamera:
Jacques HaitkinMusik:
Joel GoldsmithBesetzung:
Robert Davi, Robert Z'Dar, Caitlin Dulany, Gretchen Becker, Paul Gleason, Jackie Earle Haley, Julius Harris, Grand L. Bush, Doug Savant, Robert Forster (mehr)Inhalte(1)
When Officer Katie Sullivan storms a hostage situation, she is shot by the supposed victim who is apparently an accessory to the crime. She manages to return fire before slipping into unconsciousness, ultimately killing her shooter. The whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show Kate killing a helpless victim. Now in a coma, Kate's only hope is another detective, McKinney, who tries to clear her name. Unbeknownst to him, Matt Cordell, the "Maniac Cop," takes it upon himself to clear Kate's name and exact revenge upon those responsible for smearing her name. His vigilante mission takes a twisted turn when he kidnaps Kate from the hospital and prepares for an unholy wedding in an abandoned church. When McKinney interrupts Cordell's deranged plan, an explosive confrontation may finally send the Maniac Cop to his final fiery doom. (Verleiher-Text)
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Lustig understands that he’s going to make a dark murder look like a couple of shootouts, and he does put decent effort into it. On the other hand, no one explained to Cohen that he can’t keep on writing the same thing and expect it to be relevant, and so the entire film is in the spirit of shamanic rituals, loving outpourings, and toothless tension. There’s also a lot of dialogue, the topics of which are hopelessly stuck in the first film, stretching the 85-minute runtime to an unbearable limit, with the film eventually falling flat with the director's resignation and the director’s unabashed stealing from his past works. A sad end to my childhood serial killer legend.
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