Amityville Cop

This is down right insufferable. There is nothing what so ever here worth reviewing. An absolute insult to even B movies. Avoid like the plague unless you and some drinking buddies need something to ridicule.

When I first saw the poster, I thought it looked like it was a half-decent production, but literally 10 seconds in...and I realise it isn't.

Horrible, horrible lighting...can hardly see the actor's faces. I understand the cop at night is supposed to be dark, but then scenes in an office in the day, with the lights on...all you can see are shadows cast across all the actor's faces...and the background looks dull, listless and unlit.

Awful, awful sound...it sounds like they used a voice recording app on a phone, in an empty room...it's just low, reverberating, poor quality audio.

Terrible, terrible acting...actors stumble and struggle to deliver lines on time, (could be down to editing)...actors gaze into space and look absolutely gormless. To top it off, there's a guy that's trying to be Will Smith, Chris Tucker and Mike Epps all at the same time...and he was annoying as hell!

Stock footage of cities, that doesn't fit in with the movie. They look like 4K...and the film looks barely 720p.

Switched off after 10 minutes...as it was clear to see where it was going.

Avoid!

Amityville has become a code word for me; it's code for DNW. I have yet to watch one flick with the word Amityville in the title that is good enough to watch all the way through, though I do. Yet, here I am, critiquing another Amityville flick. This one is not set in Amityville, which should have been an improvement, alas. This is a hodgepodge of crimes and satans, and not a very good one. We have bad guys and bad cops all apparently ripping off Maniac Cop which I will now have to watch. I'll use it as a palette cleanser.

Amityville Cop opens with an adequate kill scene reminiscent of the original Maniac Cop. We are then treated to a horrible comedy scene between our main character Detective and his captain with a bizarre swing music soundtrack.

The rest of the runtime consists mostly of very stilted dialogue scenes shot in the police station (someone's empty house), stock drone footage, and non-gory kill scenes.

The casting of Laurene Landon as a cult leader solidifies the Maniac Cop 'inspiration'. Cult favorite Lisa London also appears as the only two notable faces on display. The rest of the cast are regulars of Hatanaka's other films and little else.

Speaking of director Gregory Hatanaka, he was also the director of the abysmal Samurai Cop 2 along with a number of small films, but seems to make his living as a distribution consultant on larger films and somehow was a music supervisor on Kill Bill.

Most recent Amityville films have little to do with the house, but there seems to be no tie whatsoever with Amityville Cop. It's not even a good sequel to Maniac Cop either.

Bottom line: boring story, bad cast (especially the lead detective's terrible attempts at being funny), little action or kills make for a very bad film. Still, at least the runtime is a mercifully short 68 minutes and it's not the worst of the endless Amityville films (Amityville Witches or Amityville Vanishing Point earn that title... for now...)

Please start to create the minus -10 . Low cheap budget movie, no actors, dialogue by force, no production, no director, this is a cheap low budget movie made by a bunch of neighbors in California, no story no history, nothing, no FX nothing, really terrible movie no waste your time download this horrible terrible movie. For sure the good comments are the families and neighbors of the kids and the poor producer and director and for sure all the clowns in this terrible VHS This people and his director must be ban to produce or make another domestic VHS home movie. No real story, bad acting. Waste of time.