Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Let's be realistic.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

A very good Action packed Horror Thriller & Robert Davi is a very cool tough detective character now on the hunt for The Maniac Cop but in my opinion it's no where near as fun or as great as the Cult CLASSIC 1988 original & that's because TOM ATKINS completely stole the show that movie!!! & lets face it that's a hard screen presence to compete against but Davi is still very good & like i said a cool character. MANIAC COP 2 is still a very good dark Thriller & still had that gritty tone & seedy New York City atmosphere & plenty of gore & killings & shoot outs so yeah a very good sequel & very good movie, they just shouldn't have killed off Detective frank McRae (Tom Atkins) as he was a fantastic character & could have returned for this sequel & would have made it better!!!

When another spate of violence against officers occurs, a detective ties them to a previous rampage committed by the undead Maniac Cop Matt Cordell attempting to continue his original quest for vengeance and recruits the two survivors to stop him.This one here is incredibly impressive and manages to have a lot of things going for it. The pacing to this one is really great as there's never any down-time at all, it keeps things moving forward smoothly and never really slows down anytime here. This is mainly due to the film's major plus and biggest selling point, the amount of high-end action scenes in here, and all of them are exciting and interesting. The car chase to this is excellent, with the disbelieving victims chased around by the villain and continually ramming the car into everything causing tons of damage as well being pretty thrilling, and then the second half where the one survivor finds themselves trapped to the speeding car on the outside and forced to steer the car while hanging onto the door away from speeding traffic and eventually forces an impressive stunt to close things off. The brawl in the strip-club that eventually goes up into the motel room is nice and hard-hitting, although these pale in comparison to the film's big two moments, the assault on the police station and the finale in the prison. The police station one is simply great, starting off in the shooting gallery where after shooting dead the oblivious ones doing shooting practice, makes his way out of the darkness, into the main room and just starts firing away, walking through glass partitions gunning down anything that moves and then resorting to hand-to-hand brawling as well when necessary. The prison scene is just amazing all around, from where one set on fire crashes through a wall and falls onto a bus parked below, falls through and goes up in flames when the bus explodes, to the way it brings everything around and finally the resolution of the gang and the explosive finale, it's all great and just ends this the right way. There's also the fact that the Maniac Cop keeps the same look and feel throughout as the scarred face, quiet demeanor and hulking appearance is kept and it makes the villain appear that much more menacing from the silent walks with the thunderous footfalls of the shoes to the scenes which show him to be invincible. Along with a really nice and impressive body count that's much more than expected and some nice nudity with all the strip-club sequences, this has a lot to really like about it. There's really only one flaw to this one, that the majority of the kills here tends to use gunshot or being set on fire as the manner of death, and using it for so many in the body count is a little disconcerting. Still, this was all-around a fun slasher.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.

William Lustig's "Maniac Cop 2" is a rare thing - a sequel that surpasses its original. Granted, the original "Maniac Cop" wasn't exactly Shakespeare (though it is a hell of fun trashy B-Movie) so that probably wasn't very hard to do. This direct-to-video follow up still holds up well as one of the better B-films of the early 90s.We all know the story of how dedicated NYPD officer Matt Cordell became the Maniac Cop after being framed by his superiors and sent off to prison as part of a corruption cover-up. His vengeance against those who wronged him served as the plot of the first film, and as "2" opens, the horribly scarred, hulking Cordell still has a few loose ends to tie up. Bruce Campbell and Laurene Landon return briefly from the first film though neither of them survives very long, and new characters are brought in to deal with the psychotic officer: grizzled NYPD detective Robert D'avi (of the James Bond flick "License to Kill") and police psychologist Claudia Christian (who went on to "Babylon 5" as well as lots of other genre TV/film). The ante is upped this time because the Maniac Cop has hooked up with a partner for this second installment (Leo Rossi of "Halloween II" fame), a serial killer who's been stalking strippers and prostitutes on New York's seedy streets. Cordell shoots up NYPD Headquarters in a hilariously over the top shootout/massacre that simply has to be seen to be believed before he and Rossi (along with a few other criminals freed from police custody) head for the prison where Cordell first met his fate, to take care of the inmates there who were responsible for his beating/coma/"death" in part 1.OK, so the plot is ridiculous and was probably written on a cocktail napkin. That doesn't take away from the fact that "Maniac Cop 2" works beautifully both as an action flick and a horror/slasher movie. Lustig puts the pedal to the medal virtually from the first scene and doesn't let up through one bloodbath after another. Car crashes, shootouts, throat impalings, explosions -- whatever your taste in carnage, "Maniac Cop 2" will have a scene that satisfies.The (slightly) larger budget when compared to the first "MC" go-round allows for nastier makeup on the Cordell character (who by this time is basically a hulking, undead Jason Voorhees type in a cop uniform), better set pieces, and improved stunts and pyrotechnics. Say what you want about "Maniac Cop 2," but you can't say it's a boring movie.Fans of the "MC" series have long acknowledged that this second film is the highlight of the series. Sadly, the only DVD available in the U.S. went out of print almost as quickly as it appeared (and it was in fullscreen besides -- arrrgh!) but if you can get hold of a copy, "Maniac Cop 2" is a worthy night's viewing for action freaks and fans of cop-related carnage.

Hulking, undead officer Matt Cordell (Robert D'Zar) returns from his apparent watery grave to wreck yet more carnage in this entertaining sequel to the 1988 film.Whilst in my opinion not quite on par with the original, this one nonetheless certainly ups the action sequences. Of special mention there is a truly superbly staged assault on a police station when Cordell crashes in (literally!) to liberate a deranged serial killer whom he has formed an acquaintanceship with. This scene easily surpasses the very similar sequence from The Terminator when big Arnie performs his own inimitable attack on the police station in that movie.The spectacular finale here too set a new stunt record for the longest full body burning and it is truly a sight to behold!