Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance

Any goodwill earned by bringing back most of the original cast and padding it out with porn stars is immediately lost due to the inclusion of Bai Ling and Tommy Wiseau. The plot is head spinning nonsense that introduces several new characters in every scene who are never seen again, which is fun, but the constant winking references to the original movie make this feel more like a spoof of so-bad-they're-good movies instead of the genuine trash that was Samurai Cop. Decent fan service, I guess...

Everyone looks kind of embarrassed to be in this. I felt the same way watching. I couldn't suppress a giggle every time a character has a minor pause during their line readings when trying to remember [Random Japanese Name]. All the old and tired looking people (and plastic surgery atrocities) made this hard to watch at times. I can't believe it, but Tommy Wiseau was the best part of this movie. Simply typing that probably unleashed a demon from some arcane prison somewhere. Woopsie!

It's terrible, but also shitgood. The editing is terrible and makes no sense, the fights are horrible, the music is really bad and doesn't fit, the people are ugly; it's pretty much a trainwreck. And what a joy to see Wiseau in it too, he surprisingly fits well in this.

While the belated sequel is still objectively terrible in every measurable way, it's also aware of its terribleness. But make no mistake, rather than the product of a overconfident astoundingly incompetent filmmaker, this one is clearly a labor of love by a crowd of people whose only claim to fame is one bad movie from the 90's celebrated for its extreme awfulness. I can't imagine coming back together to make a terrible sequel twenty-four years later was nothing but a blast. So kudos to them.

Yes, they somehow managed to make a film worse than the first. "Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance" is a masterclass in nonsensical screenwriting, absent direction and completely random editing. Female nudity is overused without merit again and there's a surprising amount of fan service, which would have made sense if the original had any actual fans but, as it stands, feels like a poor shot at self-parody. Oh and Tommy Wiseau appears! Acting weirder than ever, he's the one stealing the limelight.

You can't be intentionally unintentionally funny

Half of this movie is unintentionally funny and really stupid, the other half tries to make fun of how stupid the movie is similar to how Troma does things. The soundtrack is exceedingly horrible and brought down any enjoyment that was to be had.

For a film that used to revel so gleefully in its glorious silliness, I was surprised - if not disappointed - to watch its long-overdue sequel take on a more serious tone. As such, it's the small moments that provide some of the film's short-lived pleasures, which include Wiseau failing to utter a coherent sentence, throwing a random fit of maudlin rage and clumsily wielding a samurai sword like a lunatic. So bad, yet oh so beautiful.

Better than the original and therefore not as good.

The Kickstarter sequel to the cult movie Samurai Cop (1991) with pornstars and lead actors dug up from their grave after barely doing any acting for 25 years! Cheesefest deluxe! Really bad, really cool, really unnecessary.

What is going on? I get this film is reveling in the original's cult status so there are tons of winks and cameos, but the plot makes no sense and the editing is only there to splice in the aforementioned fanservice. Prison aged Karedas a ton while Frazer hasn't changed much. Tommy Wiseau's parts were too self-indulgent and seemingly unrelated to the main plot. The classic TV parts also didn't relate but at least flashbacks/trips in that style are cool. Fav scene: bar fight with ninjas.

As cool as a black cutoff t-shirt. Samurai Cop 2 was a Kickstarter dream to make a sequel to a horrible movie made in the 90's. This movie takes the funny route for the most part. It really embraces the smarmy Joe Marshall and then brings back a lot of old and beloved faces from the original movie. Add a list of adult film stars and some purposeful bad writing and some troma-esque gore and you have this fun movie. I like this a lot better than the original...

Feels like two different movies cut together (plus all the scenes from the first Samurai Cop). The parts that are intentionally bad don't work at all, but the movie always shines when it gets so convoluted and abstruse, that even the actors have no clue whats going on. Trash multiplicator: 2

it obviously is pretty crappy, intentionally, unintentionally, whatever. the stuff that should've worked didn't work at all, which is a shame, especially regarding wiseau's appearance. he's somehow become self-aware and now actively tries to be funny. we all know how that plays out. still, not entirely wasted potential, it has some genuinely funny stuff to offer.

It's charming that they got much of the cast of a so-bad-it's-good kitsch classic to return 25 years later for a sequel (even those long out of the acting game). Beyond that the movie can't capture the original's appeal. "So bad it's good" needs to come from a sincere place to work and is hard to do intentionally, so this movie's deliberately winking, ironic meme-movie status can't strike the same chord. Feels like a YouTube movie reviewer's feature length film of their character or something.