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No Mercy (1986)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 11

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3

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High-powered gangsters move this crime drama along at a fast pace. When two cops, Eddie Jillette (Richard Gere) and Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba), hear about a contract out on local crime boss Losado (Jeroen Krabbe), they go undercover posing as hitmen, and the result is murder. Collins and the man who hired them, Paul Deveneux (Terry Kinney) are killed, and Jillette goes looking for the assassin. He ends up in New Orleans where he locates Michel Duval (Kim Basinger), the girlfriend of Deveneux

R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Richard Pearce

In Theaters: Dec 19, 1986 Wide

On DVD: Mar 6, 2001

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Cast

Richard Gere
Eddie Jillette
Kim Basinger
Michel Duval
Jeroen Krabb�
Losado
George Dzundza
Capt. Stemkowski
Gary Basaraba
Joe Collins
William Atherton
Allan Deveneux
Terry Kinney
Paul Deveneux
Bruce McGill
Lt. Hall
Ray Sharkey
Angles Ryan
Marita Geraghty
Alice Collins
Aleta Mitchell
Cara
Mike Bacarella
Driver
Kim Chan
Old Asian Man
Caris Corfman
Waitress
George Dickerson
Reblue
Charles S. Dutton
Sgt. Sandy
Victoria Edwards
Bernice
Annalee Jefferies
Susan
Pearl Jones
Blind Woman
Leon Rippy
Man #2
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Man #4
Raynor Scheine
Curtis
John Snyder
Miles
Bill Hart
Man #3
Carl Gordon
Lawrence
John Schluter
Policeman
Ray Brown
Benny Blue
Harold Evans
Security Guard

Critic Reviews for No Mercy

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (12) | DVD (2)

A passionate film noir that depends heavily upon Mr. Gere to give it credence, and Mr. Gere delivers.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

Count me among those who would be happy never to see another starring role for Gere, except maybe as Felix in a remake of The Odd Couple.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Paul Attanasio

Washington Post

Top Critic

A standard-issue cop thriller that amounts to Beverly Hills Cop in a bad mood.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Rita Kempley

Washington Post

Top Critic

An above-average film noir, and its creepy feeling for the back streets of New Orleans and the sultry evil of its red-light suburbs got under my skin.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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Pearce pads out his plot with lots of borrowed bits ... but the borrowings don't have any resonance of their own: they simply hang on the story like empty thematic husks.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Pat Graham

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Not even the goings-on between Gere and Basinger and the horrific happenings in the exotic bayou settings can rev up this romantic thriller.

August 25, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

Gere and Basinger fizzle rather than sizzle in this lame Bayou thriller.

April 5, 2003 Comment

Beth Accomando

KPBS.org

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On the surface, this film, which I like, is like dozens of other revenge-the-death-of-a-cop-partner stories. But the saving grace of the movie is the characters, and some of the dialogue. Spoilers in the following Eddie Jilette is a tough cop. A tough Chicago cop. But what distinguishes the film that his Captain is

August 10, 2008

Cassandra Maples

Super Reviewer

Exciting action-thriller of a Chicago policeman (Richard Gere) heads for Louisiana to track down his partner's killer. There he falls in love with an illiterate Cajun beauty (Kim Basinger). Basinger pouts, Gere smoulders, the bayous steam.

March 20, 2007