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Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

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Love it or hate it 'Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence' is here on DVD. The last DVD release was by a company named platinum back in 1999 I believe.
Well this new DVD release has out done the last one, the picture quality is much more clearer and sharper than before and this is also in widescreen and with a trailer!
This is the first official DVD by the original company that released this film back in 1993 so the quality is very good but the front cover artwork is horrible-what were they smoking?
Also William Lustig has been placed back into the credits as the only director (there used to be 2 directors now this states only 1 in both the film credits and the box art).
If you liked the first two Maniac Cop films give this one a try!

Fat chance if any further (unlikely) Maniac Cop sequels are going to be like this. The interest has gone from the series.

The plot, such as it as, revolves around that uniformed cadaver Matt Cordell being resurrected once again. He then attempts to bring about the resurrection of the female cop killed in Part 2, for reasons which never become apparent.

Boring and lifeless from beginning to end, new ideas very thin on the ground indeed. Virtualy nothing seems to happen throughout the bulk of the film, and it ends in yet another car chase. Don't bother with this one. We don't want the producers thinking it's popular enough to warrant dragging the series to any further depths with a Part 4.

I saw this at my local blockbuster and decided to rent it. I thought if Maniac Cop 1 and 2 were that good maybe this will be the same. I was wrong. Maybe it was the lack of a good cast as in the first films despite Robert Davi and Robert Z'Dar. The story was interesting but dull. William Lusting did not directed some of this film and it can tell some of the acting isn't that good. Spiro Razatos did a great job on the stunts and the last 30 minutes was really good. Most of the ways Cordell kills is very stupid. I have seen some good movies like "The Green Mile" and "Night of the Living Dead" but this is not in that catagorie. I recommend this for people who have Maniac Cop 1 and 2 so you can complete the series, but if you didn't like 1 or 2 don't buy it.

If youve seen the first movie then you know what to expect.i havent seen the second but after seeing the first and third i really want to.the maniac cop is way more ruthless in this one and some of the kills are acually funny(spoiler)...like the one where he picked up a guy,threw him in the air and shot him six times before his body hit the floor...thats just pure fun to watch.considering how cheap you can get this one i dont see how people shouldnt get this one and the first.willian lustig deliverd another wonderful horror movie with a script by larry cohen.give this movie a chance and i know youll like it alot just like i did.the end leaves room for a forth maniac cop and i hope one day theyll do one.

I thought Maniac Cop was an excellent film. It was well paced and didnt leave much fat to pad the movie down. I recently bought part third because the second one has yet to see the light of day. Why is that anyways? Well this movie is still good. It reminds me of Halloween 2 in a way. It contained a little more creative kills but nothing speical. Highly recommend this movie to horror fans. This has to be one of the most underrated horror movie franchises around. You can pick up 1 and 3 for less then ten bucks, do it!

Most thought the murderer cop (Robert D`Zar) is dead but he has been brought back to life by a voodoo man. Now the cop only wants one thing, an woman is his life.

This silly premise works because of Larry Cohen (Phone Booth) Script. Directed by the same director:William Lustig (Maniac Cop 1 & 2, Uncle Sam). The Last in the Series. Watch for actors:Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) & Paul Gleason (The Breakfest Club). Grade:B-.

The Cohen/Lustig team return for Maniac Cop 3, but the results aren't so hot.
Matt Cordell has been resurrected by witchdoctor/shaman/homeless guy, Julius Harris. I'm not really sure why. Harris babbles some junk about Cordell being a "restless soul", but doesn't really explain why he brought him back to life. Maybe it was a slow day and he didn't have much else to do. Detective McKinney(Robert Davi) is also back and he's so cool he doesn't even bother to wear ear protection at the shooting range. When McKinney's friend and fellow officer, Katie(Gretchen Becker) is seriously wounded in a drugstore shootout, she's rushed to the hospital where McKinney looks after her. Then Cordell springs into action! He goes to the hospital, killing everyone in his way, to get to the dying woman(sounds a lot like Halloween 2, doesn't it?). Why? I'm not too sure. He wants to marry her or sees her as some kind of soulmate or some ridiculous nonsense. You know a horror series is getting a bit long in the tooth when plots like this start popping up. When a story that involved a killer zombie-like cop with a grudge against the police department starts delving into spiritual hocus pocus and romance, it's about time to hang it up I'd say. So in the end, McKinney must once again square off with Cordell to save his friend's soul.
This sequel wasn't terribly impressive. It had it's moments and was just entertaining enough to keep you watching, but when compared to the two previous films, it's a big letdown. There's just too much lollygagging and it never seems as though anything's really going on. The kills aren't very impressive, and even the great Robert Z'Dar is terribly underused. Plus the climax is a bit too drawn out. You get the feeling that the film was made just for the sake of making it considering the limp noodle plot. But even with it's shortcomings, Maniac Cop 3 isn't all that bad especially when you consider the state of straight to DVD horror titles these days.

Matt Cordell, once a respected officer of the law, but now a rage-driven zombie, forced to live an excistence as neither living or dead.
This time he's out to get the persons responsible for a accident that put a female cop in coma.
The movie is very entertaining, perhaps even better than part 2(wich I also liked very mutch) It has good and talented actors, not teenage amateurs like in most other slasher films. The effects are also great, especially a burning car chase that must've been very complicated and unpleasant for the stuntman.
So if you liked part 2(Like I did) then go and get this one as well.

Like the previous two films in the series, Maniac Cop 3: Badge Of Silence (1993) is an ultra-violent affair that features former New York City policeman Matt Cordell (Robert Z'Dar) committing all manner of mayhem. Unfortunately while credible plots have never been a strong point in the series, this time the story is probably the most farfetched and dumbest so far. Cordell is typically motivated by vengeance, but here his actions seem particularly twisted and obscure, apparently guided by feelings of affection. The screenplay by Larry Cohen delivers plenty of cartoonish violence, but fails to produce a story that ties these events together very credibly. Indicative of the problems with the film, director William Lustig, who directed the first two Maniac Cop films, quit Maniac Cop 3 because of creative differences, and was replaced by Joel Soisson.

Officer Katie Sullivan (Gretchen Becker) is critically injured in a shootout at a drugstore, and is taken to a local hospital, where after an operation, she is apparently brain dead. Frank Jessup (Jackie Earle Haley), the criminal who shot her, is also recuperating in the same hospital. Robert Davi who appeared in Manic Cop 2, returns as police detective Sean McKinney, a close friend of Officer Sullivan. Both Jessup and Sullivan are under the care of Dr. Susan Fowler (Caitlin Dulany).

At the conclusion of Maniac Cop 2, Matt Cordell was lying dead in a coffin. At the start of Maniac Cop 3, a voodoo priest named Houngan (Julius Harris), through a ceremony involving human sacrifice, brings Cordell back to the world of the living. Apparently lonely, Cordell takes an interest in officer Sullivan, and visits the hospital several times committing acts of violence, before eventually adducting her. With Houngan's help, Cordell hopes to bring Sullivan back to life. McKinney and Fowler get on Cordell's trail, and ruin his plans. Justifiably upset, the maniac cop attempts to kill the pair, while they are in an ambulance, on the way to the hospital.

The film features a couple of gunfights, a fire in a church, and a crazy chase through the city streets. While the action sequences are clearly the highlights of the film, the writing could have used some tightening up. Voodoo as a source for re-animation seems pretty weak. Cordell moving through the hospital unnoticed, is unlikely. A tunnel that leads from the hospital, directly to Houngan's church, is much too convenient. And altering Cordell's basic motivations, undermines the whole premise of the series, and makes him unsympathetic. Playing things straight and serious, Robert Davi helps lend credibility, but there are many other issues to be overcome. Maniac Cop 3 delivers some decent action and destruction, but the story behind the mayhem is probably the weakest in the series, as the movie comes in with a rating of 2.5 stars.

At the gravesite, I loved how they asked for forgiveness for Maniac Cop Cordell, "we'll not sit in judgment." Why not? The guy killed a b-zillion people in 3 films. I'm certain all those characters would disagree, but there you have it, he's back and he's still miffed.

I love how they keep avoiding his face in all three films, as though we haven't already seen him, as though we don't know who he is, as though that could ratchet up the suspense or fright....or maybe the camera man wasn't tall enough to keep it in the shot?

For me, the most shocking scene was Robert Davi's character smoking in a hospital.

This entry in the series is very bizarre. I still don't understand the whole ritualistic head stabbing thing to bring Maniac Cop back to life. It's not as if he wasn't already an expert in that regard. I also saw more similarities to Phantom of the Opera than anything else as poor misunderstood Maniac tried to get himself a brain dead wife (all that lurking about in the steam piped walkways beneath the hospital). He might be decomposing but he still needs love.

I rate this as being on par with the other two. I'm glad I have the whole collection now.