The mysterious Officer Matt Cordell is stalking the streets of New York once more...the "Maniac Cop" is back! Once Cordell was a hero, a supercop, but he was framed by crooked superiors and now nothing can stop him on his macabre mission of vengeance. They thought he'd vanished into the murky river depths when he crashed off the pierhead in a stolen police van...but they were terribly wrong. You can't kill the dead that easily and the wrong arm of the law is back. Cordell's burning need for revenge has driven him into an unholy alliance with a vicious serial murderer. Now, the city's two most feared killers have become partners in terror, sharing a chilling common bond - the need to destroy. MANIAC COP 2 features an all-star cast, including Robert Davi ("License to Kill"), Claudia Christian ("The Hidden"), Bruce Campbell, ("Evil Dead"), Robert Z'Dar ("Tango & Cash"), and Leo Rossi ("The Accused").

Cast

• Robert Z'Dar - Matt Cordell

• Robert Davi - Sean McKinney

• Claudia Christian - Susan Riley

• Michael Lerner - Edward Doyle

• Bruce Campbell - Jack Forrest

• Laurene Landon - Teresa Mallory

• Clarence Williams III - Blum

• Leo Rossi - Turkell

• Lou Bonacki - Detective Lovejoy

• Paula Trickey - Cheryl

• Charles Napier - Lew Brady

• Santos Morales - Store Clerk

• Robert Earl Jones - Harry

• Andrew Hill Newman - Citizen

• Ángel Salazar - Traffic Officer

• Vincent Russo - Cab Driver

• Matt Cordell (Robert Z'Dar) speaks only once, giving his surname.

• Revealing mistakes: When the Maniac Cop is getting burnt in the prison, it's a stunt man wearing protection (a bag) over his head.

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the angry cab driver is yelling at the female cop that stole his taxi, the words you can hear him saying do not match is mouth.

• Continuity: When the clerk is scratching tickets for the burglar, he starts scratching the second one, then it goes to a close-up of his face and he says that it isn't a winner, then it goes back to the angle of his hands scratching tickets, and there are now three scratched tickets laying there. The clerk had only scratched two.

• Revealing mistakes: When Maniac Cop throws a man into (what looks like) a thick, solid wall during the prison scene, the wall is clearly shaking.

• Crew or equipment visible: At the Police Station, as Cordell walks through the walls made of glass, the second one clearly shatters before he walks through it. Also, in the same scene a minute later, you can clearly see the wire used to drag the officer through the wall frames.

Bodycount

Store Clerk - Killed by shotgun blast
Convenience Store Robber - Shot repeatedly by police
Jack Forrest - Stabbed through the neck
Stripper - Strangled Off Camera
Traffic Officer - Clubbed in the back of the head, hooked to the chain of his truck, then "towed away"
Cab Driver - Hit by Cordell's police car
Teresa Mallory - Neck snapped
Police Officer 1 - Thrown into mirror
Police Officer 2 - Thrown into wall
Range Officer - Shot through the head
Police Officer 3 - Shot
Police Officer 4 - Shot
Police Officer 5 - Shot
Police Officer 6 - Shot
Police Officer 7 - Shot
Police Officer 8 - Shot; rolls down stairs
Police Officer 9 - Shot
Police Officer 10 - Shot
Police Officer 11 - Shot
Police Officer 12 - Shot
Police Officer 13 - Shot
Police Officer 14 - Shot
Police Officer 15 - Shot
Police Captain - Thrown through several office blocks
Police Officer 16 - Knocked through door
Police Officer 17 - Knocked through door
Escaped Prisoner - Clubbed in the face by Cordell
Security Guard - Neck snapped
Prisoner 1 - Pushed into a burning Cordell and kicked in the face
Prisoner 2 - Thrown into wall head-first
Prisoner 3 - Set ablaze
Turkell - Set ablaze by Cordell, busted through a wall, falls through a bus, and dies in the explosion
Matt Cordell - Dies in bus explosion...or does he? See: Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

DVD/VHS/Laserdisc

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Region 2 PAL DVD (Contender - United Kingdom)

Region 2 DVD (Overseas Film Group - France)

Region 2 PAL DVD (Arcadia Digital - Greece) North American VHS (Live Home Video)

Region 1 Laserdisc (Live Home Video/Image Entertainment)

Alternate Versions

• Some of the violence was trimmed to get an "R" rating, most notably the police station massacre. This scene appears in its entirely in a flashback sequence in Maniac Cop 3 (which was also originally given an "NC-17" rating).

• Although the UK cinema version was uncut the video release was cut by 4 secs by the BBFC to remove some scenes of blood spurts during the police shootout.

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