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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonManiac Cop is the type of movie that you would want to watch through the slits in a sewer grate, only its execution sits perched well above its scummy aim, and the end result is that you feel guilty for wishing for something more perverted.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayManiac Cop is heavier on the goofery than the relevance.
- 60EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanA no-holds-barred assault on hollywood cop sensibilities that could have benefited from more comic diversions.
- 50Time OutTime OutDespite abundant action and a start involving a fistful of murders, the overall effect is sluggish.
- 30The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesThe acting is stiff, the dialogue is stiffer and the action scenes are laborious. Even the presence of professionals like Sheree North and Richard Roundtree, in small roles, tend to diminish them rather than improve the film.
- 25TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis is a one-idea concept enlivened ever so slightly by fleeting moments of Cohen's patented sociopolitical subtext and goofy black humor.
- 20Washington PostRichard HarringtonWashington PostRichard HarringtonThe script is at once so undernourished and so obvious that you'll be convinced Cohen produced it via telegram: START MANIAC COP KILLS CIVILIANS STOP CLEANCUT GETS BLAME STOP WORLD-WEARY DETECTIVE FIGURES IT OUT STOP BODIES FALL STOP.
- It also begs for an anarchic-camp approach, or else a deeper exploitation of the very real fears the common citizenry have of men in blue in so many urban climes nowadays.