Cinema: No Mercy

I watched 'No Mercy' last night partly to remedy a historical wrong, namely that I wasn't able to see it when it came out in Dublin in the mid-80's because it was rated certificate 18 and partly because there was nothing else on. The highlight of an otherwise dour film was the memorably named cop Eddie Jillette, played by the pouty and thoroughly unlikely Richard Gere, being described as looking like stale piss by his captain,played by George Dzundza, above. Other than that I found myself speculating as to why bad guy Jeroen Krabbe wears the same buttoned-up overcoat throughout the film and how many times has the premise of a tough cop going to another city-this time from Chicago to New Orleans- to bust shit up being resorted to by Hollywood.