Although you won’t find his name listed anywhere within the annals of cinematic history, martial arts wizard and part-time B-movie icon Ron Marchini is, in my humble opinion, the quintessential action hero for our disastrous day and age. How so, you ask? The answer, my dear friends, lies deep inside Paul Kyriazi’s zany 1990 post-apocalyptic wake-up call “Omega Cop”, a film which thoughtfully explores what, exactly, a one-man army would do if he or she were forced to contend with ruffians and scoundrels in a savage world where water is a commodity. Set to what can only be described as faux oldies music, Marchini struggles to protect a trio of curvy females from a morally bankrupt clan of redneck kung fu experts while making sure his beloved police-issued hat doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. The film, while entertaining, is the sort of zero-grade, third-tier malarkey that often...
- 1/17/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
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