Directed by: William Lustig
Budget: ?
OK this one is stretching it a bit. Even as an invincible psycho killer lover, I can see how this killed off the series. Right so a priest, yeah a priest who knows the black arts of voodoo resurrects Cordell at the beginning of this film.
He grabs his badge and strides off to do some biddings. Meanwhile a female police officer Katie Sullivan is in the midst of a store robbery. Some camera men hoping to scoop a big story film the scene.
Katie notices some clues that the store clerk is actually in on the robbery she's the robbers girlfriend. In a hail of gun fire the clerk is killed and Katie is gravely wounded.
In the hospital she is officially pronounced in a coma, possibly brain dead. McKinney back from the last film curses the luck of this, then sees that the way the camera men filmed the scene makes it look like Sullivan used excessive force.
This threatens to have the robber released on bad policing grounds. The robber being a youngish Jackie E Haley, called Frank.
Cordell however has taken a fascination in Sullivan's case going to the hospital he watches over her. He kills two physicians one with a defibrillator and another who was going to have Katie's life support turned off. The stupid reporters also get minced but this injustice is the type we like ain't it?
McKinney and female physician Susan investigate the murders. Some how they do work their way back to the priest, Houngan who admits to bringing Cordell back to life.
Cordell then ends up trying to get Houngan to bring Katie back to life with his magic. McKinney says do you really want to doom that girl to your existence?
To which Matt just continues making the priest do the ritual. When he is unable to bring her soul back under the grounds of her not wanting to come back. Matt angrily kills the priest accidentally setting ablaze the area. He on fire as well as Katie's corpse which gets proper burnt up. Collapse, McKinney and Susan escape but are suddenly followed by an enraged still ablaze Cordell. He is driving a police car while the other two drive an ambulance Suffice to say the end of the movie isn't far off you know what happens at the end of these films. The bad guy is finally stopped in some way.
What I will add is a little scene at the end of the film in the coroner's office shows Cordell's hand moving to hold Katie's.
Aaaw that's nice isn't it?
Well I can kind of see where they were trying to go with this find a kindred spirit unfairly judged like Cordell. But the movie around that just falls flat on its face. They had apparent problems on this one too.
So what do I think of it? As a sequel it's poor and doesn't reflect the others to well. As a part of the series God damn it my ocd of watching full series of things reared is head.
So as my views I give this a 2 but a strong two if like me you have to watch a whole series it decent enough.
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