After having its World Premiere at the Nightfall portion of the Los Angeles Film Festival, M. Shawn Crahan’s pulp-esque Officer Downe has finally been acquired for U.S. release through Magnolia’s Magnet Releasing, and will hit VOD platforms on November 18th.
Who is Crahan? He’s best known as “Clown” from Slipknot – and he’s allegedly delivered one helluva bloodbath.
Unfortunately, Kalyn wasn’t a fan, stating that Officer Downe “fails to deliver an effective parody film.”
“This balls-to-the-wall ‘Robocop’ wannabe not only falls short of the movies it references, but it also simultaneously fails to be funny enough to distract its viewers from the fact that the character of Officer Downe isn’t necessarily indestructible, or even a good fighter really – he just has a great team that can bring him back from the dead every time he answers a call and is promptly and kind of easily killed. It’s too bad, because Kim Coats does a terrific job of playing the hardass cop who will do whatever it takes to get the job done, and loves to deliver one-liners along the way, it would just be nice if he had a little more to work with.”
Adapted from the 2010 graphic novel, “Officer Down takes you into a hyper-real Los Angeles for the story of a savage LA policeman who is repeatedly resurrected and returned to active duty via dark science technology. When a rookie officer named Gable is recruited as back up, he discovers there’s much more to the titular super-cop than a mindless law enforcement drone warring against a twisted rouges gallery of over-the-top super-villains.”
Kim Coates, Tyler Ross, Lauren Luna Velez, Meadow Williams, Alison Lohman, and Sona Eyambe star. Variety first reported this news.
