Blown Away comes to mind with this sleeper-hit, low-budget masterpiece!!! Expertly Directed with ferociously raw & rapid skill by the excellent William Kaufman (The Brave, Daylight's End, Jar Head 3:The Seige) this guy knows how to create exclusive & exciting shootouts & action & Bad Cop aka: Sinners & Saint's is cut from the same cloth as old school Action Classic's like Lethal Weapon & 48hrs, that old bone-crunching violence & gritty mean gun fights & explosions that we grew up loving with the Action genre. Bad Cop is a mystery too as well as action & even has plenty of depth to it's characters & story. Johhny Strong (Daylights End) is outstanding here as the ultra-violent no-nonsense tough & rugged New Orleans Cop Riley, he's so convincing & raw that you care for him & immediately think how Cool he is & he's a Vigilante type Cop & i love that, he's old skool shoot first & ask questions later & boy does he shoot!!!! An incredibly raw & powerful performance from Strong & for a low-budget production like this it's almost unbelievable & that's how good he is & isn't just a muscle man super hero, this guy bleeds & rages like a man on a suicide mission. Strong's Riley is on the hunt for a sadistic Killer, a team of sicko Mercenaries that are burning up the hot towns of New Orleans with extreme murders & must be stoppedno matter the cost. We get a whole host of characters as this has a big ensemble cast with an excellent Kevin Phillips (Notorious) who gives the 2nd best performance here as new partner to Riley & the always great & intense Louis Mandylor (The Brave, The Debt Collector) & his real life brother, Costas Mandylor & the veteran actor Tom Berenger (D-Tox, Platoon) & an excellent Sean Patrick Flanery (Deadly Impact) in his best performance I've ever seen of him & there's more!!!! A Cool cast & an extremely gritty Cinematography & brutal blood splattered action scenes definitely puts this Action Cop Thriller right up there with the one's that inspired it. I'm so happy someone out there has made the type of raw Action Thriller that used to be made back in the 80's & Early 90's!!! Like the Awesome Scott Adkins, Johhny Strong seems ridiculously underrated but he will definitely have fans & a Cult following within the low-budget Action genre. All performances are great & i mean great, there's an emotional back story & real character driven action & nice chemistry between our two Detective's on the case. An underrated under the radar Action GEM & future Cult Classic in my opinion.

"This is N'Awlins white boy, you ain't seen nothing' yet." After a call goes horribly bad Detective Sean Riley (Strong) is given a new partner. Trying to cope with a failed marriage, the death of his son, and a series of brutal murders that is affecting the entire city he is a very unstable officer. When clues lead to something bigger then either expected it is up to the two new partners to work together and stop the ring before it's too late. Lately the "cop revenge" movies have been very slow and not exciting to watch (Blood Out/Set Up). This one, while slow in parts, is very good. I tried as hard as I could not to compare the two, but this one reminded me of a harsher "Lethal Weapon". There really is nothing new in this movie. A loose cannon of a detective is teamed with a family man who is by the book, the two somehow can work together and yada...yada...yada. Even though this is a movie that has been done to death it is still very enjoyable and very much worth watching. I really enjoyed it. Overall, one of the few repetitive type movies that is exciting and worth a watch. I give it a B+.

An actor with the unlikely name of Johnny Strong; I am not kidding, is Detective Sean Riley and his kid has died, the marriage is falling apart, the boss is close to suspending the high flying cop and now a series of unsolved murders has New Orleans in its grip. How is that for an opening sentence.

Riley is o.k. as the embattled defender of all that is good in the world but the script is so filled with clichés and cardboard characters screaming at each other that it is just another seen it all before cop movie.

Car chases, fires, shootings, gang wars and every typical action scene is pulled out with great frequency, so if a mind numbing entertainment is your bag, this may for you. Otherwise rent one of the old Lethal Weapons flicks.