Cop Game (1988)
6/10
Incredible.
17 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
An elite group of commando assassins - Cobra Squad! - are murdering high-ranking U. S. soldiers in the closing days of Vietnam. To stop them, Morgan (Brent Huff, Gwendoline, Nine Deaths of the Ninja) and Hawk (Max Laurel, who played Zuma in two films and Quang in Robowar) must have one another's back against a massive conspiracy.

Yes, Bruno Mattei - Bob Hunter! - has united with Rossella Drudi and Claudio Fragrasso, heading to the Philippines and made a movie that makes little to no sense whatsoever. I don't say this as an insult. Few of the man's movies have anything approaching a coherent plot. Yet every single one of them wants to entertain you to the point that you are rolling on the floor in incredulity and laughter. They are everything you want them to be.

This is the kind of movie with dialogue like "When you go home, you will forget about me. But I will still be here, drowning in a sea of CENSORED." Nearly every line is screamed as loudly as possible, as if a twelve year old boy has just been allowed to stay home by himself while his parents go out and he takes advantage of the freedom by repeatedly saying combinations of swear words and never getting tired of using them until he's hoarse by the time mom and dad come back.

It's also the kind of film that says that it takes place in 1975 Vietnam but also has plenty of Miami Vice and 80's buddy cop vibes, along with stolen footage from The Ark of the Sun God, both Strike Commando movies and Double Target. I guess since Mattei made most of those, he's really just cutting and pasting. You can't steal from yourself, right? This isn't a John Fogerty getting sued because his song "The Old Man Down the Road" sounds exactly like Creedence Clearwater Revival situation!

Cop Game also has an all-star cast and by that, I mean actors that only I care about like Romano Puppo (Trash's dad in Escape from the Bronx), Candice Daly (After Death), Werner Pochath (Colonel Magnum in Thunder III), Robert Marius (Mad Warrior), Massimo Vanni (Robowar), Ottaviano Dell'Acqua (who is the "We are going to eat you" undead face on the poster for Zombie), Roberto Dell'Acqua (Nightmare City), Jim Gaines (Zombies: The Beginning) and a Brett Halsey cameo.

Mattei made movies in nearly every junk film genre. I can honestly say that I have loved every single one of them and if you want to hear me ramble on about something, ask me about them.
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