Expect No Mercy

I seems like Billy Blanks and Jalal Merhi are really fond of each other, since they have been in several movies together. Both "Talons of the Eagle" and "TC 2000" were quite good, and so is this one. It's a rather simple, action-packed flick where the action is totally at the center of attention. Action lovers get their dose of everything that's good, both martial arts and gun/explosion-scenes are abundant. Both are really good, and Blanks again does a rather great job in everything he does (except the acting itself, who I don't care about at all). Simple things are often the best. Today's movie makers should take a look at this for a good example of how an action movie should be.

And it's really good. Action scenes are awesome, the martial art is also awesome, the fights are good and the hero's does take damage though the movie and do not always win every fight.

It's a b-movie and some of the actors ain't the best, you can spot silly stuff in the background and so on but it really delivers a good and entertaining action movie.

Highly recommended for the one who doesn't want a advanced story but great main villian with goons and good hero with side kicks saving the day after a lot of blood sweat and fighting.

Only on the VERY rarest occasions do multiple bad movie ingredients magically coalesce into the most rewardingly flavoursome celluloid cheese, and Zale Dalen's entertainingly bizarre B-fight flick 'Expect No Mercy' is arguably one of the most fragrantly overcooked slices of virtual martial arts mayhem you could ever hope to witness! As this conspicuously Canadian, copiously crap-tastic computerised Kung Foolishness remains a vainglorious virtual calamity!

Muscular martial arts maestro, and telegenic Tae Bo tycoon Billy Blanks energetically unleashes one of his more dynamic performances as the powerhouse, frequently shirtless, eminently clueless government agent tasked to infiltrate the tyrannical terrain of wantonly warped warrior guru Warbeck (Wolf Larson), but Warbeck's queasy charm, rock star good looks and princely chin belie his exquisitely evil supervillain mind! On top of the plentiful array of hyperbolic fight scenes, enjoyably rudimentary CGI, hilariously formulaic text, and silky-sexy synth score by Varouje it's Warbeck's manically unfiltered mannerisms that strongly suggest 'Expect No Mercy' will mercilessly become your brand-new bad movie obsession! To reiterate, Wolf Larson's moorishly odoriferous performance as the pixel chewing wrong 'un Warbeck is worth its weight in 24 month-aged Parmigiano-Reggiano!

I know some of the people who worked on this film, and I still can't stand it. Most of the fight scenes were wooden and boring - your basic B-movie fare, the dialogue bites and was there a plot here? I'm sure someone thought so, but I didn't.

I watched it once to be polite to my friends, but I felt like my foot was caught in a bear trap and I would have to gnaw my own leg off to escape. Never again.

No pun intended - this is an action movie from the 90s ... it could have been from the 80s too to be honest ... except for the digital effects ... which surprised me. I mean they have aged and weren't top notch back then, but still a low budget movie like this having them to start with? Almost unheard of if you think about it.

Now if you also know there was a game they made based on the movie ... well I reckon it makes more sense that way. The game is a bit like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter (without the fatalities from what I could tell from the video on the disc) ... but yes smash button and win and all that. If you played those games you know what's up.

And if you have seen an action movie of this caliber - well actually you don not have seen one to know where this is going. Evil is bad and so forth. Interesting and intriguing concept of virtual fighting (although obviously used to conjur up fights for our entertainment - sorry for the pun) ... has many flaws but also a really good cast ... Laurie Holden? I mean ... come on! Also Billy Blanks who apparently got the role instead of another (white) action B-star of that era .. good choice I reckon ... adding a bit of spice to the whole thing.

Some nudity by the way, but the main focus is on the fights ... can you dig it?