Space Cop is a feature film made on a VERY slim budget by Red Letter Media (the Plinkett Review people). It also took them around a decade to make, and both the lack of money and the long production time show in this film. They have made films before (Gorilla Interrupted, Feeding Frenzy, The Recovered) in addition to their web series and Plinkett reviews. It is a VERY small production company.
Storywise, Space Cop is about a cop from the future (played by Rich Evans) who is catapulted into our time, where he is partnered with a cop from our past (the 40's to be exact - played by Mike Stolkasa). They then investigate a series of crimes which leads to aliens, whose leader is played by Jocelyn Ridgely.
The acting in the film is actually decent, especially given the heavy comedy dose in the movie. Rich Evans plays Space Cop as sort of an obnoxious, drunken Dirty Harry. Stolkasa's cop from the 40's is the "straight man". Ridgely has some very funny scenes as the alien leader as well.
The visual effects are crude, and reflect the near zero budget. That said they could be a lot worse. Also, the pacing in the film is inconsistent, probably from the extra long and on/off nature of production.
This brings me to the plot. Bizarre is the best way to describe it. Sandwiched in with the comedy schlock is a fairly intelligent time travel story. They even managed to write in a sequence where a drunken and stupid (as usual) Space Cop is actually the cause of events in his past (and the movie's future) that drove him to drink and such. Causal loop anyone?
Sadly right now there is no free access to the film....yet. I was gifted the DVD. I'm sure it will eventually find its way onto torrents and such, which in this case is a bit sad as it is not a big studio here but rather the livelihood of four people.
Overall, it was entertaining. Some of the humor was fairly twisted but it was overall funny and entertaining.
Storywise, Space Cop is about a cop from the future (played by Rich Evans) who is catapulted into our time, where he is partnered with a cop from our past (the 40's to be exact - played by Mike Stolkasa). They then investigate a series of crimes which leads to aliens, whose leader is played by Jocelyn Ridgely.
The acting in the film is actually decent, especially given the heavy comedy dose in the movie. Rich Evans plays Space Cop as sort of an obnoxious, drunken Dirty Harry. Stolkasa's cop from the 40's is the "straight man". Ridgely has some very funny scenes as the alien leader as well.
The visual effects are crude, and reflect the near zero budget. That said they could be a lot worse. Also, the pacing in the film is inconsistent, probably from the extra long and on/off nature of production.
This brings me to the plot. Bizarre is the best way to describe it. Sandwiched in with the comedy schlock is a fairly intelligent time travel story. They even managed to write in a sequence where a drunken and stupid (as usual) Space Cop is actually the cause of events in his past (and the movie's future) that drove him to drink and such. Causal loop anyone?
Sadly right now there is no free access to the film....yet. I was gifted the DVD. I'm sure it will eventually find its way onto torrents and such, which in this case is a bit sad as it is not a big studio here but rather the livelihood of four people.
Overall, it was entertaining. Some of the humor was fairly twisted but it was overall funny and entertaining.
