Omega Cop

Marchini might be a decent karate guy, but he's about the least convincing action hero there is. Maybe its the goofy sweatshirt, the grey hair, the tucked in shirt, the hat, or the dead line delivery, or maybe it's just the fact that this is a low budget and bland movie, but you're not going to get much out of this one other than a few laughs at all the groin kicks. The female characters were lame and the villains were worse. But at least there were lots of groin kicks!

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.

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.

Being a trash film fan , i liked this one especially for the absurdity of plot and for the absence of any visual confirmation to the story as told. Some nice girls lift up the movie , see the B-Movie review for more. It's a pity that the actor is able to fight ....

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.