Top cop 1990 film autobiography

Wants to play with the big boys, but stuck with the bubbas

TOP COP (1990) is a DTV knockoff cop thriller that leaves no cliché unturned in its bald-faced desire to emulate Hollywood police thrillers on an Arkansas shoestring budget.

Top Cop (1990) - Cast & Crew — The Movie Database (TMDB)

To say the least, location filming adds nothing to the production value unless you live in Arkansas. You have to give writer-producer Helen Pollins (whither she?) credit for drafting a screenplay that, with a Big Studio spit shine and top-drawer professionals on both sides of the camera, might have made a standard low-tier Joel Silver production for the era, or perhaps even a TV pilot.

But when you're stuck filming in Arkansas with a cast of unknowns and amateurs and a very low budget as director Mark Maness is here, trying to emulate the big boys is a losing game that makes everyone look a little silly by comparison, no matter how reasonably swift your pace or how capable your screenplay, or who you bribed for a few crane shots.

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