"Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence" is a textbook example of a sequel that doesn't have any valid reason to exist, but nevertheless one that is tremendously fun to watch! Why redundant? By the end of "Maniac Cop 2", anti-hero Matt Cordell got what he wanted. The prominent people who sent him to Sing Sing Prison are dead, the inmates who made his already ugly face even uglier are dead, the corruption was publicly admitted, and Cordell was granted his honorable burial with a few years of delay and his soul could finally rest in peace. So why does the voodoo priest wake him up again? Perhaps because Katie Sullivan, a female police officer in the NYC Corps, risks undergoing the same outrageous treatment he did, due to corrupt politicians and sensationalist reporters? Okay then, but perhaps more because there was still a lot of easy financial gain to be made with a third film.
A better question is perhaps: Why so much fun to watch? Well, despite - allegedly - a lot of production issues and disagreement on set, "Maniac Cop 3" is a delicious old school slasher with a gloomy hospital setting, gruesome kills, spectacular stunts, and a fiery climax! Let's not overcomplicate things: Matt Cordell returns from the dead to slaughter a lot of random cops and arrogant doctors, while he helps the real thugs to escape. Robert Davi returns as well, but he's more interested in chasing after the lovely Dr. Fowler than after Cordell. Can't blame Davi for this, because actress Caitlin Dulaney truly looks amazing!
Most interesting thing I learned watching "Maniac Cop 3": New York hospital have basements and underground tunnels that are somehow directly connected to voodoo-churches!
A better question is perhaps: Why so much fun to watch? Well, despite - allegedly - a lot of production issues and disagreement on set, "Maniac Cop 3" is a delicious old school slasher with a gloomy hospital setting, gruesome kills, spectacular stunts, and a fiery climax! Let's not overcomplicate things: Matt Cordell returns from the dead to slaughter a lot of random cops and arrogant doctors, while he helps the real thugs to escape. Robert Davi returns as well, but he's more interested in chasing after the lovely Dr. Fowler than after Cordell. Can't blame Davi for this, because actress Caitlin Dulaney truly looks amazing!
Most interesting thing I learned watching "Maniac Cop 3": New York hospital have basements and underground tunnels that are somehow directly connected to voodoo-churches!