Zero Tolerance

1994
5.3| 1h28m| R| en
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After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told that his already murdered family is being held hostage, Jeff is forced to turn one-time courier for the White Hand, whose leaders are Manta and four others named Helmut Vitch, Milt Kowalski, Russ LaFleur, and Hansel Lee. After surviving a car-bombing in Las Vegas, Jeff learns the truth about his family being murdered, and he sets out to exterminate the White Hand cartel. Unofficially aided by an agent named Megan, whose mother was raped and murdered years ago, Jeff steals FBI files and begins his campaign of revenge on the White Hand cartel.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
verbusen This is a cheap take off of Die Hard, but it's memorable once you get past the build up romantic part which is a rip off of Robocop, where the cop is having flashbacks to his wife and kids. I watched it with my wife and she was thoroughly entertained so the romantic parts were good in terms of making it more of a date flick for guys to watch. I was watching it for massive carnage and was instantly amused that Patrick's rifle bullets were all explosive grenade types. Which, outside of a shotgun sized shell, I don't know of explosive bullets in the normal rifle size. This trick was done in Robocop with the bad guys in the end getting the "latest military hardware" in the future so it was easy to suspend belief with that but this is set in 1994 not 2044, so if you are looking for realism skip this one. I knew it would be a cheesy film so was OK with it. Oh, and all the bad guys when they use rifles their bullets don't explode either. Keep an eye on Patrick around the third boss attack, a henchman will be using a rifle and the bullets will be normal, after getting whacked, Patrick picks up the dead henchman's rifle and magically the rifle turned into a grenade launcher as the bullets were exploding! I therefore rationalized that Patrick had magical powers and fired magic bullets! Fun film, loved the carnage, and cheesiness! 7 of 10. BTW, Patrick's magical powers only work on rifles not pistols, lol enjoy.
Comeuppance Reviews PM knows action, and by this point in their history they had refined their craft to such a point that they turned it into an art. Case in point: Zero Tolerance. This movie is awesome. It delivers the goods in every possible way.Jeff Douglas (Patrick) is a by-the-book FBI agent and family man. On what he thinks will be just a routine assignment, he must go down to Mexico and pick up Manta (Welliver), an evil, but charismatic killer and drug dealer. He is a member of the White Hand, a sinister underworld organization intent on putting a new form of liquid heroin on the streets. Things don't go exactly as planned, and Manta escapes. Now back with his criminal associates Vitch (Fleetwood), Kowalski (O'Keeffe), LaFleur (Anderson-Gunter), and others, he commits an act that is so horrendous against Jeff Douglas, Jeff must go rogue and systematically kill all the baddies. His FBI counterparts don't approve of his reckless ways, but Jeff doesn't care. He's traveling around the country on a no-holds-barred revenge mission, and for the people that wronged him, he has ZERO TOLERANCE.Robert Patrick as the hero, Jeff Douglas, was an excellent choice. Zero Tolerance has way more emotion than a normal film of this type, and Patrick is just the man to carry it off. That's something that makes this movie special. You can see Douglas slowly losing patience with life, and being stripped of everything he has. With his emotions flooding, we see he has nothing left to lose, and he takes out his grief and pain, as well as anger, on his aggressors. Another interesting casting choice was Mick Fleetwood as one of the top bad guys. It seems the filmmakers wanted to go with Donald Pleasance, but seeing as how the drummer for Fleetwood Mac is evil in real life, the casting decision was a no-brainer. O'Keeffe puts in one of his best roles also, as the conflicted baddie with the Matt Hannon-like hair.Titus Welliver is also noteworthy as the sinister, purple suited Manta. He's actually not the only one in the movie that wears a purple suit. He even has a multi-screen videoconferencing system with his fellow evildoers which can only be described as GoToDrugDeal (patent pending). This was way before Skype and a lot of other technology. As we discussed in the Bloodmoon (1997) review, direct to video action movies oftentimes are ahead of the curve technology-wise, but no one gives them credit because no one ever talks about them.But the bottom line is, this is a mega-entertaining, fast-paced gem that delivers the goods times ten. It's the best kind of revenge movie. It has a well-written plot, a likable hero, a hate-able villain, and action and stunts galore, but it actually has underpinnings of emotion and depth. What more could you want? Zero Tolerance gets our most enthusiastic recommendation. See it today! For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com
Vivekmaru45 That's a dialogue in the film a little boy tells Jeff Douglas (Robert Patrick). He responds solemnly "nothing".What would you do if your wife and child were murdered by a crimelord? You would take the matter in your own hands.This is ZERO TOLERANCE a hard as nails revenge plot akin to The Punisher and also the main character is similar to that of Frank Castle. Plot: After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow feds Jimmy (William Steis) and Gene (Michael Gregory) as they transport drug kingpin Raymond Manta (Titus Welliver) out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas (Robert Patrick) becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Raymond tells Jeff as he is being transported to let him go otherwise Jeff's family, which is being held hostage by Raymond's goons, will be murdered. Jeff tells Raymond to give him his word that his family will not be harmed. Raymond gives his word of honor. Unknown to Raymond, Jeff's family is already dead. When Raymond returns to back to his gang he scolds them for failing to obey his orders. And now Raymond is secretly afraid because he knows Jeff will be coming for him.You will be very satisfied with this film I assure you. I saw this film back in 1995 or 1996, I can't remember, memories fade. Buy it on DVD if you spot it.Films similar to this: The Punisher, Collateral Damage, Death Wish, Death Sentence, Johnny Handsome, Mad Max, The Crow.Email me Vivekmaru@yahoo.com for more movies list and recommendations and why not have a chat as well?Have a NICE day.
ccthemovieman-1 For action freaks, this is great stuff, but overdid it, especially at the end. If they hadn't this might have been a good movie overall. For the first hour, this was tremendous with some wild, jaw-dropping action scenes in the typical revenge story angle.Then it gets out-of-hand with good guy "Jeff Douglas" (Robert Patrick) killing all the bad guys in sight while numerous villains can't him - not one! It really gets ludicrous, and to make it worse, the acting is not the best in this movie. Some really dumb line deliveries and stupid characters. In the end, worth a rental but not a purchase.

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