Omega Cop

In yet another post-apocalyptic future, a cop works to bust up a band of slave traders and save a few women along the way.

In all honesty, Omega Cop probably deserves a 1/10, but it's saved from that rating because it was so stupid in parts I was mildly entertainined on occasion. So what very little entertainment I got out of this thing was purely unintended. Star Ronald Marchini may have been a martial arts expert, but it didn't translate well to the screen. He's too wooden and unnatural. The rest of the movie is filled with equally poor acting, poor special effects, poor fight choreography, and poor everything else. And I'm convinced that Adam West had no idea what movie he was making. His character is so out of touch with the action in the rest of the film, it was often laugh-out-loud funny. Finally, I sort of felt sorry for Stuart Whitman. He made some bad career decisions, but this might have been the worst. Did he need a job this bad?

The makers of Omega Cop didn't try real hard on the whole post-apocalyptic thing. People with dirty faces, weird haircuts, and trash blowing across an empty parking lot was hardly convincing and just plain lazy.

2/10

One of those dated '80s-era movies set in the far-flung future of 1990. This one was fimed out on a backlot somewhere and is one of the cheapest-looking movies I've seen in a good while. Hulking plank of wood Ron Marcini plays the titular character, a cop in a post-apocalyptic world trying to keep law and order and doing battle against some mindless slavers in a series of entirely disappointing action set-pieces. It's gruelling stuff, hard to sit through just because of how bad it is, the only merriment coming from the casting of various old-timers in supporting roles; chief of these is BATMAN himself Adam West, hiding in a bunker, while Stuart Whitman is a scientist.

One of the best B-movies made. Great filming location Stockton,CA. I just love the feel that you get from it when the movie first starts. As soon as you see the desert and here that whistling wind your hooked. You can tell that the budget was limited, but they pulled it off great. There is 3 great looking women, they don't have has much of a role as John Travis. But what can you say John Travis is bad, he can just about do it all. Oh yea Adam West is in it too (Batman). He doesn't have much of a role but he's there through the whole movie. But anyway if you get a chance definitely check this flick out, if your a B-movie enthusiast.

My review was written in June 1990 after watching the movie on Southgate Entertainment video cassette.

"Omega Cop" takes the police genre into sci-fi realms in an okay programmer released direct to video stores.

Martial arts expert Ron Marchini toplines as the stoic future cop John Travis (pic's shooting title was "John Travis -Solar Survivor"). Out on a mission to capture slave traders who hold open-air auctions of women, Marchini bulls his way through this modest vehicle with the running gag of beauties gravitating toward him. It's squeaky clean, however, with no nude scenes included.

First femme to fall into Marchini's orbit is blonde Lena, followed by Troy Donahue's brunette daughter Jennifer Jostyn. Finally, Chrysti Jimenez joins his little band, trekking back to a protective bunker manned by Adam West to seek refuge from marauding scavengers (called scavs).

Unfortunately, the bunker is running low on air and food. Rather hopeless situation is resolved unconvincingly with a sudden happy ending of Marchini and the gals swimming in a pristine lake.

Other than very poor makeup (when guest star Stuart Whitman i dying from exposure to the sun it looks as if his face is merely smudged with charcoal), film is technically okay.

An apocalyptic, low budget Texas Ranger seduces all the women he encounters with force and not letting them speak. He saves them from the evil gangs lurking around what looks like downtown Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Adam West's character is pulling the strings from what is supposed to be an underground bunker??? But it looks like gray painted cubicle walls. Omega cop, or Travis just wants peace and to swim again. He likes oldies music.