Good Cop, Bad Cop Reviews

Jake Kilkanin (Lorenzo Lamas) is the kind of ex-cop who keeps getting coaxed out of retirement for someone else's political gain. In this instance, Captain McNicols (Patrick St. Esprit) appeals to Jake's conscience after a field officer-cum-friend is murdered while doing drug surveillance in Mexico. American law enforcers can no longer turn a blind eye after coke kingpin Chaparro (Marco Rodriguez) orders a hit on Julio Rosario (Mando Guerrero), Mexico's anti-drug czar, and kidnaps San Diego financier Robert Mainwaring (Ryan MacDonald). Apparently, Chaparro has gained a stranglehold on border drug-smuggling by convincing terrified couriers that he controls an ancient demonic entity named Satano. Accompanied by Mainwaring's vociferous wife Constance (Catherine Lazo), Jake attempts to infiltrate Chaparro's fortress in the Baja wasteland. In the process, he begins to question Constance's innocence — is it as phony as her dyed hair? &#151 and whether Mainwaring is Chaparro's hostage or his accountant. Here's movie in which the creeps exhibit a more fully developed gameplan and sense of style than the lawmen. Maybe Chaparro can fool peasants into believing his malarkey about Satano, but it's doubtful that career criminals are going to be impressed by someone wearing a modified Ninja outfit. And who's the titular bad cop, anyway? The merely overzealous Captain McNichols? One policeman dies at the opening, and a Mexican officer rescues Jake, so shouldn't the movie be called TWO GOOD COPS, ONE DEAD COP? Or better yet, GOOD COPS, LOUSY MOVIE