Critic Lav Diaz gave the film a mildly positive review, commending it for being hilarious despite its imitation of numerous screen works such as Police Academy and The Six Million Dollar Man while criticizing the third act for being boring.
Lav Diaz, writing for the Manila Standard, gave Bobo Cop a mildly positive review. He stated that though the film tried to cram as many imitations as it can into the story, from Police Academy to The Six Million Dollar Man to Jimmy Wang Yu, it was still able to garner effective hilarity. Diaz criticized, however, the film for becoming boring when it became a parody of RoboCop in the third act.[3]
^"Movie Guide". Manila Standard. Standard Publications, Inc. May 13, 1988. p. 10. GREENBELT-4................Bobo Cop
^Diaz, Lav (May 15, 1988). "Sinira ni Robocop" [Destroyed by Robocop]. Manila Standard (in Filipino). Standard Publications, Inc. p. 10. May kaguluhan ang kinalabasan pero kahit papaano'y nakahatak din ng tawa.
