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| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: December 19, 1986 |
Starring:
Bruce McGill, Gary Basaraba, George Dzundza, Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Basinger, Marita Geraghty, Ray Sharkey, Richard Gere, Terry Kinney, William Atherton
Summary:
A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.
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I could go two ways. I could say that No Mercy is a dumb formula thriller, which we can all sort of figure out from the ads, or I could go the other way and talk about the movie's style and energy. I think I'll go the second way, because whatever this movie is, it's not boring. It doesn't take shortcuts and it delivers on its grimy, breathless action sequences.
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Technically, "No Mercy" is a smooth, assured piece of work, with a
sense of movement and color far superior to Pearce's previous outings. But it
is in technique that American action movies have taken their last refuge. The
commitment to character is gone, the effort to create credible, vivid
situations has been forgotten. What remains is empty know-how, and it is
difficult to see the difference between this kind of filmmaking and the
impersonal style-for-hire that goes into a typical TV commercial.
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Please. Quick. Somebody stop Jim Carabatsos before he writes another movie. Carabatsos, author of the vile new Clint Eastwood movie Heartbreak Ridge, has created another trashy screenplay in No Mercy, thus affording stars Richard Gere and Kim Basinger the chance to sully their careers. [19 Dec 1986, p.7]
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