I've always found the micro-budget, yet better-than-they-should-be films of Tim Ritter to be highly entertaining. Killing Spree, for the lack of a better word, is a classic. And the Truth or Dare series seems to still be the underseen gems they've always been. And I suppose the same could be said for Tim Ritter's 1998 Shot-On-Video Mock/Shockumentary comedy, Dirty Cop No Donut. An outlandish, and mean-spirited spoof of the TV show, Cops. A movie that could have easily ended up average at best, stars Tim Ritter's buddy. The one and only. The legendary Joel D. Wynkoop. A B-movie actor that started out rather mediocre in films like Killing Spree and Wicked Games. But as he got fatter and fatter over the years, his entertainment value would grow along with his waistline. And by 1998, Mr. Wynkoop would finally be fat and hilarious enough to play this wonderful role.

Gus Kimble is not a nice man. Gus Kimble isn't even a decent man. Somehow, this guy ended up with a badge. Whether or not it's his isn't all that clear. But he also has a gun. so people have to listen to him, right? Damn right!! Officer Gus Kimble, aka Officer Friendly is not in a good mood tonight. Despite the fact that he's on a rather large amount of cocaine, he "found" after "busting" a drug dealer under some rather unorthodox methods. On this night, you might want to stay out of trouble, because Officer Friendly can, and will abuse his power whenever and however the hell he wants, because he's on a serious power trip, and is very much out of donuts!

Tonight, Officer Kimball is bringing along a camera man so he can, once and for all, show the world the dangers and difficulties of his chosen profession. Officer Kimball, above all, prides himself in being a good cop, which clearly means he never has to pay for donuts, or hookers, or drugs or any damn thing for that matter. Officer Kimball prefers to avoid all that boring paper work, too and would rather dish out any necessary punishment the old fashion way, like going ape shit on drunk drivers and destroying their cars, tearing apart pawn shops due to a coked out tantrum, or even breaking into the house of a rapist and forcing him to castrate himself at gunpoint, and taking a piss on him just for fun. Whatever it takes to keep the streets safe, I guess.

A real treat from an extremely underrated director. Dirty Cop, in my opinion, is Tim Ritter's unsung masterpiece. And I assume, doesn't share the cult status of something like Killing Spree due to the fact that not nearly enough people have seen/heard of this. And I've always found Joel Wynkoop's work to be good shit. But after witnessing this performance, I now automatically laugh whenever I see him in anything. Dirty Cop was truly the role he was born to play. The backwards horse shit that come out of this guy's mouth, You just wouldn't believe. Wynkoop's portrayal of "controlling fat man on a coked-out rampage" is priceless humor that must be seen to be believed. Wynkoop's violent outbursts and hypocritical rantings absolutely had me in stitches. Joel, with his limited acting abilities and all, threw himself into this role 100%, and it looks like he had a lot of fun doing it. You can find this on a Special Edition dvd from Sub Rosa with Dirty Cop 2 added on to make one, long, epic Cops episode from Hell! 10/10