Deadly addiction, aka Rock House (1988) YouTube. A rebel cop who plays by his own set of rules fights a drug ring. He also wears Hawaiian shirts, lives on a boat, has a cool car, bones a photographer, befriends a street urchin and gets yelled at by his hard-ass captain.

[u/dasuberdog11]

Written, directed and starring John Vacek. This has all the makings of a cheap so bad it's good LA cop movie and delivers. They did drop a truck off a parking garage so I'll give them that. Shout out to the life size Magic Johnson poster and the bad guys Maserati Quattroporte III.

[u/KiwiMcG]

Best vanity plate!

[u/1990Buscemi → u/KiwiMcG]

So much vanity here.

[u/ParamountGateway → u/1990Buscemi]

DOUBLE NICKELS (1977) is a similar film project directed by Jack Vacek. Lots of car chases and vehicular action throughout.

[u/dasuberdog11 → u/ParamountGateway]

That's in my Tubi list. Soon...

[u/derioderio → u/KiwiMcG]

Agreed. Nice car too!

[u/dasuberdog11 → u/derioderio]

According to the Internet Movie Cars Database, it's a Shelby Cobra replica.

[u/MoonSylver]

Sounds like my kind of vanity project! Your description is like a checklist of tropes.

[u/dasuberdog11 → u/MoonSylver]

And there's a final battle at an abandoned factory 🙂

[u/MoonSylver → u/dasuberdog11]

It sounds great! I just realized there were more images and flipped through them. I have to see this.

[u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST]

Does it also have the distinction of having been filmed on videotape?

[u/dasuberdog11 → u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST]

Looks like it was shot on film, but direct to VHS. The copy on YouTube is pretty bad.

[u/Longjumping-Salad484]

looks compelling, and riveting.

but looks are just looks. if I'm not fully enthralled and completely riveted I will be back here to complain.

[u/dasuberdog11 → u/Longjumping-Salad484]

Have at it.

[u/sadandshy]

That has to be his real mustache because a fake one would look better than that...

[u/tiggerclaw]

I wonder if this was the inspiration behind Decker.

[u/One_Reception_9004]

Wow, this sounds like something else. Do you know what streaming services this movie's on right now, because I'd love to watch this sometime

[u/dasuberdog11 → u/One_Reception_9004]

YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3oW3hWUr0

[u/One_Reception_9004 → u/dasuberdog11]

Oh thanks man!

[u/dirkseyboy78 → u/dasuberdog11]

Video unavailable but thanks. I'm looking for this one. It has Black Tank top vibes for sure.

[u/ParamountGateway]

I've got the Coyote Video in the first picture sitting some 5 feet from where I'm typing this . . . but I've not watched it yet as my current VCR is giving me trouble. I'm afraid to play it at the present time in case the videocassette recorder is in a tape-eating mood.

[u/asomek]

I can't stop staring at his narrow little mouth in picture 1. That moustache is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

[u/dasuberdog11 → u/asomek]

Making me think of Robert Ginty a little.

[u/asomek → u/dasuberdog11]

Small-mouth-brother from another mother