Dirty Cop No Donut

Dirty Cop is a mockumentary that seems to be based on the TV show, COPS. The film stars the amazing Ed Wood of acting, Joel Wynkoop as Officer Friendly, a *cop* who's out trying to make the world a safer place in some pretty unconventional and psychotic ways.

The movie is pretty dark as Officer Friendly is a VERY DIRTY COP. In fact, he's more of a criminal then the criminals he's out on the streets harassing. When he's not busting 'perps' he's giving hell to his personal camera operator who he has tagging along to video tape his work. In my opinion, some of the film's funniest moments come while Officer Friendly and the camera guy (I think his name was Mr. Fanboy) are just driving around as the conversations are mighty hilarious!

There's some twists in this film which I won't mention as they'd spoil the film. What I will say is that this is a hilarious mockumentary and dark comedy. It's downright one of the funniest films I've seen and ranks as one of Florida based independent director, Tim Ritter's finest works. Joel Wynkoop (who I find to be a terrible actor in a GOOD way) carries the film with a lot of perverted and reckless enthusiasm. While Joel's not as 'Ed Wood' as I normally prefer, he's definitely still Joel Wynkoop and that makes for an entertaining viewing experience.

If you like COPS, if you like mockumentaries, if you're not PC, then DIRTY COP will provide an hour and a half of sheer delight. It's got everything an exploitation film needs (nudity, sex, drug abuse) and then some! Tim Ritter has written a script that allowed Joel to elevate above his normal 'Ed Wood of acting' reputation. In most cases I'd be disappointed but not in this case because DIRTY COP rocks the house!!

Highly Recommended!

I will say it again. if you are hunting OOP's or rare items first visit sell outs or flea markets. This movie is only available on VHS even as it was once released on DVD but to find a copy you will have to search real hard. I did and found it, again, at a sell out of a video store. Dutch subs available. As we see in the beginning it was so called filmed in a documentary style. It is how some cops are doing their illegal work. Only at the end, after 80 minutes, you see that a director and actors were involved. But you could guess that after a few seconds into the movie. It is all filmed on ultra low budget, so no effects are used. Again, no gore is involved I can even say that just one scene contains blood but it has been blurred...It is funny to see what could happen when a cop goes nuts but 80 minutes is way too long. Because it's all talking and almost no action it bores after a while. There is also a bit of nudity in it but overall if you could catch a copy just watch it for what's it worth. Don't think you will see horror or brutality, it's just fun.

I have to review one of his other flicks,

Yes, the title says it all. In fact I won't review Bizarre Lust Of A Sexual Deviant but the so-called sequel to that flick, Chlororformed Too: They Made Her Sleep. Haven't seen BLOASD I can't say if it was bad but the sequel is utterly bad.

The sequel to BLOASD, Chlororformed Too:They Made Her Sleep explores a strange fetish through a thriller storyline. Three women discover that their boss is cheating on his taxes, and decide to blackmail him. They break into his house to search for evidence, little aware that the boss and his strange associate are waiting for them. One-by-one, the duo assaults each woman, using chloroform to knock her out and molest her, taking pictures the whole time. And that's it. The whole flick goes on and on of taking pictures of the three women. There isn't really anything to see, some do show a bit of a tittie but they were in fact not what we would call beauties. The taking of the pictures goes on and on and nothing else happens until the final 2 minutes were suddenly out of the blue a white haired beauty lays full frontal before the camera. A plot-hole because nothing is explained were she did came from.

Due being a turkey and just was available back then on VHS and is now OOP it is very difficult to find a copy. It do goes around in the era of ultra bad movie collectors because Tim Ritter was involved as an executive producer. Ritter is known for directing bad flicks himself maybe the most known Dirty Cop No Donut (1999).

Why I have put my review here is because this flick isn't anywhere to find on film databases. Not even on IMDb! There are more flicks out about Chloroforming girls, it's a weird kind of business and for some even a fetish. None of the actors are known for me although the acting was really bad...

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 0/5 Comedy 0/5

One would figure watching Joel Wynkoop acting like a cop and being an ass to everyone he comes in contact with would be pretty entertaining, it is at first, but gets tedious and old really fast.

Committed to upholding the law, a police officer with a deluded sense of entitlement about the position embarks on a reign of terror in the community trying to use his misguided sense of justice to carry out the peace in his night-long rampage of the citizens.

For the most part, this was quite the goofy cheesefest. One of the greatest examples of that is the fake documentary approach that follows the titular officer around on his various activities. There's a fine sense of over-the-top glee exhibited by the way this handles the extreme actions here, from the harassment of the drug lord in his house as he forces him into a drug overdose for his own amusement to just walking around a convenience store doing whatever he wants and then the destruction of the merchandise at a pawn shop which really showcases his abuse of power the finest. With the approach in the filmmaking style with it being a mockumentary of the popular TV series at the time, this gives the film a fine anthology style where it takes numerous brief segments together that tell a whole story. This allows for various bits of him going around on the various calls taking everything into his own hands which all tends to go against the expected behavior of a police officer. While he initially uses every situation to do legitimate police-work, the fact that his deluded behavior and continuous crude antics that go against everything else that cops are expected to perform create a sense of fun here with his picking up a hooker or crashing and then joining in on a loud house-party with a drug of drugs around the table offers up the finest example of those scenarios. These here are what make this one fun as it does have a few minor flaws. The main problem with this one is the fact that there's just so much jerking around in the storyline here that it's oftentimes hard to keep track of what's going on. The jerking faux documentary-style camerawork doesn't really help, but the fact that this one tends to get lost in a sea of him throwing his weight around to do anything he wants in the situation causes the film to get lost in the sea of deviant behavior. As well, that can cause the film to become way too dragged out at times with the way this appears to become a series of random encounters that point to the same general tone of his deviant behavior driving the film forward which all makes for a rather troublesome time. Coupled with the low-budget on-the-streets feel that might rub some the wrong way, these here are what hold this one down somewhat.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, continuous drug use and deviant behavior.

As far as satires go, this take-off of "Cops" works extremely well...as long as you get past the opening scene including amateur actors and a newspaper machine. The catch: The officer being videotaped is crazier than the criminals he terrorizes.

Joel D. Wynkoop, of "Creep" and "Lost Faith" fame, gives an intense performance as Officer Friendly, or as the original title called his character, the "Low down dirty cop". Gore fanatics will appreciate Ritter's sense of humor...especially one scene including a sex offender and his most prized possession. There are other standout performances as well; the domestic dispute is quite believable and the cocaine dealer gives a great Clint Eastwood tough-guy routine (complete with a cigarette clinched between his teeth).

OVERALL: Tim Ritter's best since his first major production, "Truth or Dare? A Critical Madness". If you like horror, smut and "shockumentaries", then this is for you. See it for Wynkoop's grizzled performance and the closing credits. They're a hoot. 10 out of 10 - Great "no budget" fair.