Expect No Mercy

"Expect No Mercy" is a time capsule product of the beautiful glory days of the Video market, the direct-to-video heyday's of the 80's & 90's, those times are beautiful Nostalgic trips to the better times in my opinion, the shelves of Blockbuster video or anywhere else that sold or rented videos would have so many Awesome looking B-movies from Action to Horror, the variety & cool cover art was fantastic & I'm so glad i experienced it all & i lived in those video stores practically lol that's how much i enjoyed pickings out videos, i was always in those places & i discovered so many great "Gems" & i treasure those times & kids today will Never have those fun times, god i miss the 90's & from those beautiful times of videos & B-movie craziness this low-budget martial arts flick was born, a sort-of Virtual Reality sci-fi action & martial arts Thriller starring vhs era hero BILLY BLANKS, this dude was on so many DTV covers & to honest he's a fun product of the those times, a cheap Wesley Snipes in a way but was Cool enough to have his own fan base.

"Expect No Mercy" is fun, good pure 90's cheesy action with comedy & really bad 90's special effects but that's also why i like it so much & the really cool music at the beginning by Varouje, epic music score.

Another 90's B-list star WOLF LARSON is here too as a villain of of a martial art academy that uses VR to train it's warriors & i like Wolf, this dude was great in the B-movie Gem "Shakedown" from 2002 & here he's a long haired porno star looking villain lol but he's cool. Billy Blanks goes undercover at the place for the F. B. I & it's a typical low-budget martial arts flick with fancy fighting & that really cool & really colourful 90's lighting that gives it a comic-book look.

There's some buddy aspects to this & alot of fun & plenty of violence.

If you like this type of thing, like i do, then you will enjoy it for exactly what it is.....90's B-movie Fun.

The worst movie I've ever seen. Unbelievably bad on every account. I didn't used to think it was the worst, yet when I started ranking the worst movies I'd ever seen, it took the top and nothing could unseat it. The video game tie-in was no better.

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?

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.