Avonlea, Saskatchewan, Canada: The Badlands-- A bright red Ferrari screams over the desert-like sand and cacti under the barren hot July sun. A meeting between the wealthiest man in Regina and two disreputable cops is about to take place, the life of the mayor's daughter at stake. James Whittingham (Strike Me Silly, The James and Kevin Show) and Kevin Allardyce (Scrounger, The James and Kevin Show) star as two bad cops who face the biggest, most dangerous challenge of their careers. Rob Parrell ( Family Blessing) is the evil crime lord and Rob King  is James and Kevin's unsympathetic boss.
  
"This is a movie that will really get the audience's adrenaline pumping," says director Dean Evans. "Not only is it a roller coaster ride from the first frame to the last, but the underlying story is based in reality. If James and Kevin actually were cops, they'd be probably be bad cops."

For Evans, making sure that the story is grounded in fact is key to unlocking the movie's dramatic potential. A one-time arsonist in college, Evans has a working knowledge of blowing things up, which gave him a head start in doing the extensive research needed to create a credible and exciting movie in which the conflict is between man and nature...and between cops and a whole bunch of bad guys. It's mostly a conflict between cops and a whole bunch of bad guys.

If executive producer John (E) Kennedy's (above, background) experience on such large scale projects as Decoy and Fred has taught him anything it's that technology is only as good as the material. Explaining why he was drawn to Bad Cops, he says, "It has the essential ingredients for a thrilling motion picture experience, and I needed the money. No one has hired me in years."

Certainly James and Kevin are characters the public can root for. Forced to confront his personal demons by returning to the badlands where he once stepped on a cactus, Whittingham's cop is both vulnerable and heroic. For Whittingham, the role showcases his versatility as an actor.

There's no doubt that Bad Cops will do for bad cops what Godzilla did for giant lizards. But as Evans points out, a bad cop film is only as good as its human element. "We've got a really great underlying story with people you care about," he says. "Unfortunately we didn't have the money to shoot that part of the story, so we just essentially made a trailer with a few action sequences. This could have been a really terrific movie but movies cost so darn much I don't think we'll ever get around to making one any time soon."

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