LAPD: To Protect and Serve is of the same ilk as something such as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It is just so bad that some punters such as myself, will get a modicum of entertainment value out of it, all for the wrong reasons.
The acting is appalling. How old stagers such as Charles Durning, Dennis Hopper and Michael Murphy managed to keep straight faces whilst reciting their collectively banal lines must be a skill in itself. The soundtrack has to be heard to be believed. Suffice to say think of your worst 80's TV police series and that'll point you in the right aural direction.
There's plenty of action scenes generally consisting of cops doing their best to line -up and get shot by various bad guys, who are frequently cops too. Needless to say, this movie boasts a very high body count and I doubt whether the real life LAPD cooperated with the producers, in the filming of this distinctly underwhelming project.
Want to be forced to watch a laughably unneeded and inappropriately extended sex scene, then this is your baby. I also got a kick out of the many cop parties we bear witness to, where the majority of the police rock up in their uniforms and leave their patrol cars in the driveway. Makes me wonder who the neighbours might have to call, if they want to complain about the noise levels being too high.
And then there are head - scratchingly weird scenes such as the accidental shooting of a cop by another cop during a hostage situation in a basement car park, that just seems to have no relevance to the rest of the movie. It doesn't seem to bear any relationship to the main storyline, is never mentioned again and the characters involved carry on as if it had never happened. Seriously it has to be seen to be believed how many cops from this one division get shot up. But Hopper's precinct captain never mentions those officers departed at the morning briefings. He just sends the leftovers out there once again.
A final highlight consists of pre - credit notes telling us what happened to the surviving (fictional) characters, as if the production team suddenly wants us to believe this was a true story. Adding to the bizarreness factor is we are not even sure who they are talking about, due to low survival rates of the main characters and the fact that their names aren't even mentioned. Cue to start throwing popcorn at the screen, because this film truly deserves it.
The acting is appalling. How old stagers such as Charles Durning, Dennis Hopper and Michael Murphy managed to keep straight faces whilst reciting their collectively banal lines must be a skill in itself. The soundtrack has to be heard to be believed. Suffice to say think of your worst 80's TV police series and that'll point you in the right aural direction.
There's plenty of action scenes generally consisting of cops doing their best to line -up and get shot by various bad guys, who are frequently cops too. Needless to say, this movie boasts a very high body count and I doubt whether the real life LAPD cooperated with the producers, in the filming of this distinctly underwhelming project.
Want to be forced to watch a laughably unneeded and inappropriately extended sex scene, then this is your baby. I also got a kick out of the many cop parties we bear witness to, where the majority of the police rock up in their uniforms and leave their patrol cars in the driveway. Makes me wonder who the neighbours might have to call, if they want to complain about the noise levels being too high.
And then there are head - scratchingly weird scenes such as the accidental shooting of a cop by another cop during a hostage situation in a basement car park, that just seems to have no relevance to the rest of the movie. It doesn't seem to bear any relationship to the main storyline, is never mentioned again and the characters involved carry on as if it had never happened. Seriously it has to be seen to be believed how many cops from this one division get shot up. But Hopper's precinct captain never mentions those officers departed at the morning briefings. He just sends the leftovers out there once again.
A final highlight consists of pre - credit notes telling us what happened to the surviving (fictional) characters, as if the production team suddenly wants us to believe this was a true story. Adding to the bizarreness factor is we are not even sure who they are talking about, due to low survival rates of the main characters and the fact that their names aren't even mentioned. Cue to start throwing popcorn at the screen, because this film truly deserves it.