Review – Vice Squad

How can a movie this terrible not have been remade in the first decade of the 21st century? It has everything that Hollywood usually looks for when questing about for a decades-old picture to dust off and redo. It’s full of scummy criminals, misogynist violence, bad dialogue, characters with hokey names such as Ramrod and Princess, really everything they’d need to sell the story to current audiences. Sure, the villain (played by Wings Hauser) is the wrong ethnicity to fit the Hollywood mold for “killer pimp,” but that’s a shortcoming that could easily be rectified in rewrite. Why should producers shy away from making a movie far more offensive than the original? It sure didn’t stop Rob Zombie when he remade Halloween. Standing on its own merits (rather than potential re-marketability), this is a vaguely entertaining tale of prostitutes and the cops who seek to both arrest them for their transgressions and protect them from their violent lives. Mildly amusing