Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: EXPECT NO MERCY

The Canuxsploitation-A-Thon continues with the 1995 martial arts action flick "Expect No Mercy", starring Billy Blanks!
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[@TheBrandonTenold]

I don't know about mercy, but you can expect a whole lotta 90's VR scenes.

[@JazzyBlade-pp4hv]

Might as well put in the VR Troopers theme.

[@dottiegillespie8067]

This movie is a blast! I never stopped laughing!!!! Thank you Mr Tenold, you rock!!!!

[@TheGaijinsider]

I'm waiting for a Sega CD tie-in 😂

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

Real VR is disappointing compared to 90s VR.

[@Samlovescars8]

This is almost looked like Mk like an video game one

[@Simple_Man_Golf]

“I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU!” Somebody get Matt McMuscles on the horn!

[@jessicaluchesi]

I DID THINK THE SAME!!! ROFL I just @MattMcMuscles in another comment!

[@DrErikNefarious]

5:47 There he is!

[@jhoughjr1]

BEECHEWUP!

[@Variocom]

I didn't know this game had a movie! Or... movie had a game? All I knew was I saw the title and I was like "Hey, it's that game from The Worst Fighting Game!"

[@Duncaster]

“I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU!”

[@wstine79]

"I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU!"

[@KeithDameo]

"You piece of shoot" caught me off guard. That's great.

[@micshork]

I’m really glad that you checked this movie out. I’m the one who originally commissioned Matt to review the video game so you can blame me for all the “I have seen the amateur” spamming.

[@Tareltonlives]

Truly a gold mine! Thank you!

[@micshork]

@@TareltonlivesI did want him to review some more bad fighting games but sadly he ended the Patreon tier. Some of the games included: - Small Soldiers: Globotech Design Lad (Windows 98) - Antagony (DOS) - WWC: World Wrestling Championship (PS2) - Fatality (Java/Mobile)

[@angelganon8213]

​@@micshorkHe's still reviewing them

[@micshork]

@@angelganon8213 What I meant was via the commission tier on his Patreon (which he has since removed). He, as of right now, no longer does backer chosen videos subjects.

[@angelganon8213]

@@micshork ahh ok. I wonder why he would remove those

[@DasNordlicht91]

I feel satisfied knowing I once walked the halls where they filmed this insane movie.

[@SwannyTheMike]

And now both of my favorite Canadians on KZbin have talked about Expect No Mercy! Honestly though, the movie seems like the exact kind of shlocky crap I love compared to the game's... everything.

[@TheBrandonTenold]

At least with the movie you don't have to worry about crappy controls.

[@SirAsdf]

You can tell it's a 90s Canadian action movie cause it has a title that sounds like it would be used at the end of a WWE promo.

[@TheBrandonTenold]

I wonder if Jalal Merhi ever made a movie called "Hell in a Cell"?

[@ramblingRJ]

The actor who played the villain Warbeck, Wolf Larson, starred as "Tarzan" in a syndicated TV series from 1991-1995.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

I remember that. Tarzan wore knee high boots, Jane was french instead of english, There was one lion, female so it had no mane, one elephant and one crocodile. It was obviously filmed in the California hills. My wife and I called it The Adventures of Simon's Jeep. Simon, the only black person there, was a game warden and something bad happened to his jeep in every episode. It was Bad.

[@ramblingRJ]

@@earlleeruhf3130 Yeah, it was pretty bad.

[@marhawkman303]

@@ramblingRJ I thought he looked familiar....

[@lolajaramillo4620]

​@@earlleeruhf3130😂 Poor jeep!

[@earlleeruhf3130]

@@lolajaramillo4620 Yes, a rock was dropped on it, a villain shot it, and my favorite, an elephant sat on it.

[@WanArk86]

The media where former king of The Worst Fighting Game was inspired from. 💪

[@hafirenggayuda]

Honestly, it's quite big accomplishment

[@billyhines474]

I've actually met Billy Blanks, he's a super nice guy. He and my Sensei were friends.

[@godmaentertainment4375]

YES!!! I met him to...nice guy!

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

0:39 Tom Servo: "Jean claude van damme is Captain Commando." 3:37 Crow: "He sure did whip him good." 4:42 Mike: "Okay select my character here and... oh wait is my opponent suppose to be named boxer or is it supposed to be balrog or mike bison?" 7:26 Crow: "Is this the part where we're supposed to see some Jamaica fighting techniques from Dee Jay." 9:40 Tom Servo: "Bertolucci? Are we not supposed to find this guy somewhere in a police cell where Mr X is supposed to show up and crush his face." 11:51 Mike: "Okay smell the foot, smell the foot. Now take the foot, take it." 11:56 Crow: "And here comes our special guest fighter of the day Doink the Clown." 12:10 Tom Servo: "Poor Martin, he's always getting beat up by everyone else.. (mimics Nelson): Ha ha!" 14:12 Mike: "Ya know, I know this guy is supposed to be doing his interpretation of Raul Julia as Bison but he's not doing the Tuesday line."

[@gtsgreatteacherscathach5550]

As a fellow MST3K fan I declare this the best comment here.

[@sparroni]

Fun fact: 13:53 The actor who played Bromfield is Brett Halsey. He also played Big Stupid in 'The Girl in Lover's Lane!'

[@Guywholikesbirds]

17:19 "Just make sure to rescue Laurie Holden. She's the only one who's gonna have a decent career after this." Hey now. People were still working out to Tae Bo into the 2000s. That's not nothing.

[@tazzreviews1578]

I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU

[@PointingLasersAtAircraft]

Billy Blanks is a childhood hero of mine.

[@godmaentertainment4375]

we all love Billy

[@Zice033]

I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU!

[@winternow2242]

Killer Klowns in Cyber Spaaaace!!!!!!!!

[@SuspiciousSilence]

Damnit, I actually lol'd at this one.

[@Xifihas]

"I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU"

[@Nosferatu755]

Fun fact: Billy Blanks was one of the inspirations behind Dee Jay from the Street Fighter series

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

Virtuosity (1995) with Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington is another 90's sci-fi movie about virtual reality. It was directed by Brett Leonard who also made The Lawnmower Man (he seems to like the subject). BTW: I can easily imagine the bad buy being played by Bruce Payne.

[@JnEricsonx]

I love both those movies saw em both in theaters.

[@subtledemisefox]

Have you seen the movie Evolver? That was a funny one.

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

@@subtledemisefox I haven't seen that movie.

[@subtledemisefox]

@@wimvanderstraeten6521 oh it's just another crappy 90s VR movie. I think it's meant to be horror but it's just really goofy instead

[@THECOMICBOOKMAN]

Loved the Killer Instinct reference !!

[@gtsgreatteacherscathach5550]

I see that all my fellow Matt Mcmuscles fan are here wuoting the most famous line from the Expect No Mercy tie in game.

[@WillKeaton]

A few years back, a guy named Matt McMuscles played a fighting game called Criticom. He said that it was the worst fighting game he ever played. He then started a series, _The Worst Fighting Game,_ where he examined really really bad fighting games, to see if there were any out there worse than _Criticom._ At one point, he reviewed the game _Expect No Mercy,_ yes, as in the one that was released as a tie-in for this movie, and concluded that it was in fact worse than _Criticom._

[@jhoughjr1]

Isnt pit fighter the king now?

[@WillKeaton]

@@jhoughjr1 At the moment, yes. But only the SNES version. The other ones aren't as bad.

[@Zooboomafu]

"Sam and Twitch" 😂😂😂

[@RichardWatt]

I was thinking "Sam and Max" - without the large number of weapons

[@Dynaman21]

Wasn’t expecting a Spawn reference.

[@darrenrunning5415]

How about Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd from 'Diamonds Are Forever'.

[@themick5421]

i love your Canuxsploitation-A-Thon videos. interesting + funny + hilarious. keep up the good work!

[@yorkshirelad346]

Dude , should have put a “ Fatality ! ! “ in there , maybe when he killed the pirate 😂. 😂 great vid as always

[@TheVampirePredator]

I always love when I reload the page just when one of these drops.

[@DrRotwang]

"Balki Bartokomous' 'The Lawnmower Man'" deserves some kind of goddamn medal.

[@theozillanuke8281]

Thank you for the "guns don't kill people, but they sure help". I would be happy if it becomes another running bit.

[@Germandemza]

The Tiger Claws movies with Merhi and Cynthia Rothrock were good fun.

[@godmaentertainment4375]

I was an extra in some of these movies, I volunteered on a couple side productions as well. I met Billy and he is an OK guy. BTW this and the other movies did play at the Eaton Centre . TC 3000 had promotional mini poser give aways.

[@Brian-qn7fn]

Brandon making Fridays better.

[@Nostalgic80s-nd3qb]

The title of this film is what TOHO always says before giving Brandon’s Godzilla videos a copyright strike.

[@zaggyboy100]

This ones a gem. Love the choreography of the day you felt you could mix it up with them a bit. trouble is its 2024 now the choreo is omega level and im still fighting like Billy.

[@Mrcharrio]

This makes the movie, No Retreat No Surrender look good.

[@66cuda]

Thanks!

[@xnsimmonsx]

Wolf Larson should have been casted as He man in the 80s.

[@bensneb360]

When it comes to Brandon’s reviews… Expert No Mercy movies lol

[@KasumiKenshirou]

The black room covered in yellow grid lines looks like the Holodeck.

[@IaMaPh1991]

Could've been the same set

[@OlNeb-k2b]

It is surreal how most 90’s CGI looks like it does in this movie but then, what was it, ‘95’ or ‘96’ when dinosaurs “walked” the Earth once more. Certainly there are some not so great moments in CGI history in Jurassic Park but hands down the best CGI of the 90’s has to be that Tyrannosaurus Rex in Jurassic Park. I remember seeing that for the first time and like everyone else was completely blown away.

[@TheDarkNinja7]

Yep, the same with T2. Breathtaking effects in '91 yet so many movies after it were trash.

[@TheBrandonTenold]

Yeah, the CGI here definitely fits more into the "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" category.

[@OlNeb-k2b]

@@TheDarkNinja7 I totally forgot about T2 but your’re right friend.

[@TheDarkNinja7]

@@TheBrandonTenold Please don't make me think of the animalities lol

[@OlNeb-k2b]

@@TheDarkNinja7 lol, what about the what were they called infatalities or baballities lmao, I can’t remember, the baby fatalities lol. It’s killing me I can’t remember what they were called lmao.

[@xkumanekox]

"We have Mortal Kombat Annihilation at home"

[@markula_4040]

That joke needs to go home. It's almost as old as the 90's now.

[@SuspiciousSilence]

And then they made a "we have Mortal Kombat Advance at-home" game lol

[@Powershade117]

"That's for also programming Bubsy 3D you piece of shoot!" I lost it at that little gag. Well done, Brandon! XD

[@johnmorey720]

Oddly, Virtua Fighter would have been a more appropriate name for this movie than for the actual games.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

So true … I think Sega back then confused virtual with 3d 😂

[@brucedavis1803]

Sweep the leg!

[@FlukeDogg08]

No mercy.

[@firstlast822]

Brandon: Might as well include a Mortal Kombat rip off boss. ULTRAAAA COMBOOOOOO!!! Me: That's not the right game Brandon: Ok different fighting game, but you get the idea Me: How did he know I was going to say that? How did he know that!? HOW DID HE KNOW I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT!?!?!?!?!?

[@TheBrandonTenold]

Hey, I had to put "Ultra Combo" after that flurry of punches!

[@lolajaramillo4620]

😆

[@JMan77]

Saw this on opening night in the theatre and met Jalal Merhi a month ago! (Live in toronto so he's around!)

[@Szpakish]

Wow Billy Blanks. True martial artist same as Jalal Merhi, two icons of 90's vhs b martial arts movies. I recommend you TC 2000 with Billy Blanks. Wolf Larson I rember him from tv show LA Heat and tarzan. Thanks thatwas firs not eastrn martial arts movie on your channnel.

[@Bluestar1079]

When I saw the opening cityscape scene, I half expected the incredible bulk to cameo

[@emanuelferreira6875]

Love it. Every friday night should always have an upload

[@RandoCreator141]

The hologram head part. You just made me feel so young...

[@GnrMilligan]

As always, great job. Thanks Brandon.

[@justincameron9661]

The superman 64 reference had me thinking of AVGN

[@KRhetor]

2:00 Looks like Rush's video for "Big Money". And Mr. Bertolucci's nickname should have been "Buttercubes."

[@mechaman7818]

3:12 Wait, I thought it was the guy in green who always made those weird noises? SIT SIT SEEYAH!

[@danielseelye6005]

You referring to Jason David Frank, the Green Ranger? RIP Tommy. 😞

[@TerrenceChilds-xz3xu]

I haven't ever seen this movie before I now thinks too you Brandon I never will

[@godmaentertainment4375]

I feel the same way about new Disney movies, but those movies waste millions and millions of dollars on globalist propaganda, and then the creators and actors go on line and call displeased fans names. I love little cheap movies, which don't cost a fortune, and don't push their politics. The good ole days.

[@Magicghost23]

Canadian VR troopers

[@MadameChristie]

AAAAAAH! Warbeck's beardy friend doing the "demonstration" at 6:40ish is fight choreographer and swordmaster Anthony DeLongis. That man is AWESOME. He played one of the better one off villain immortals in the Highlander series

[@noahzillagraves20213]

Love the Skylanders reference you made. Fits considering both are sort of forgotten and are games (kind of).

[@Blindgenxgamer]

You have my vote for the next captive on the Satellite of Love

[@madsjacobsen2551]

Wow I did not expect a skylanders reference with the giant head bid, but I'm very glad it was cause I'm a huge fan. i Wonder if you could make more skylanders references in future videos , although it will surely be difficult

[@CharlesWCulbreth]

Was not expecting a line from Kaos lol

[@otaking3582]

The fact that Matt McMuscles doesn't at least get a cameo is disappointing.

[@marhawkman303]

Well.... we do get a glimpse of his KZbin channel... so... it's there at least.

[@mikepointer5067]

Makes sense that this is a Canadian production because at 4:21 the guy in the left was in a handful of early Cronenberg films

[@Diggy22]

“I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU!” Yes, Matt McMuscles sent all of us here 😁

[@sfighter0085]

Finally got to watching this episode. I think I may have seen the VHS for this movie at local Video Store when I was a kid, yeah another one of those. Never rented it, but it looks like my kind of movie. Campy, Action-Packed, and plenty of "Shoot" to go around.

[@ethanblanco6992]

Just in time for my birthday, hell yeah !

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

LOL did not expect a KAOOOOOSSSS reference in this!

[@johnporter9073]

Nice Kaos from Skylanders sound clip with the giant floating head line. Is Brandon a Skylanders fan?😊

[@snappertrx]

Yo! TC 2000 bringing back the memories!!

[@bigsarge2085]

Fantastic!

[@jaivonpyatt6905]

Damn kinda on the nose about the graphics there Brandon Tenold. And here's a shock, along with the CGI graphics for this Movie "EXPECT NO MERCY" this opening sequence is the thumbnail for Brandon Tenold's "Return of the Son of Canuxsploitation-a-Thon Returns!"

[@reignfire85]

You're right, that intro is very much like Superman 64.

[@actionvestadventure]

10:46 Heh, funny. I was just at a convention over the weekend that had a panel dedicated to Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.

[@jasonsantos3037]

You know see this movie want me to go back and rewatch the 90s Mortal Kombat movie.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

Was Wolf Larson the name of the Captain in Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf? A great story by a skilled author.

[@seanpollard5809]

Wow. I remember back in the 90s when low budget Hollywood was trying to make Billy Blanks happen. Every now and then I'll see Billy in a small cameo role and be all like, damn! That's Billy Blanks! Everyone else is, like, who's Billy Blanks?

[@veryrancid3128]

Aaaah..canucsploitation movies♥️

[@Haplo699g]

That gun really is amazing. The bullets go through the target from behind!

[@dmaxwell9827]

We need more reviews of this forgotten era of b movie action films

[@johnlocke9437]

3:28 so nobody is going to comment on that sweet, yet completely unnecessary heel turn?

[@johnmorey720]

Wasn't Expect No Mercy on the top of Matt McMuscles' Worst Fighting Game Ever list for a while? Yeaaaaah.

[@cjarndorfer4811]

8:25 a skylanders reference was not on my bingo sheet but I'm glad it was here

[@eddihurta7173]

Now I agree somewhat about the sentiment of "If we have boobs, we will censor other stuff" and this would be the worst example of how 😂

[@andrewvarney5687]

Hey Brandon, I've got a recommendation for a future review: Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966) The premise is that Dracula (played by John Carradine) arrives in the Old West, and upon seeing Betty Brantley (Melinda Plowman) decides to make her his vampire bride. However her fiancé, Billy the Kid (Stunt Man and Actor Chuck Courtney) soon gets wind of the plot, leading to an epic showdown.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I laughed when you said "Andy Sidaris movie", as, in the last few months, I've watched ALL 14 of his films on DVD! (Yep, even the first one, which is available on a VERY-GOOD DVD-R from an outfit called "J4HI" / "Just For the Hell of It!"-- you can't make this stuff up.) Also, Wolf Larson (who did a TARZAN tv series) was in HARD TICKET TO HAWAII and PICASSO TRIGGER, both times as "Jimmy-John Jackson", who was Hope Marie Carlton's boyfriend in both movies. I'd love to see you review STACEY (1973) and SEVEN (1979), my favorite Sidaris films.

[@ksauerrr]

Had this movie on VHS. Good stuff. Please do a reviewe of Deadly Prey in the future.

[@johnoneil9188]

I completely forgot Expect No Mercy was a movie, I just knew about the horrible horrible fighting game.

[@OlNeb-k2b]

TyBo which I’m sure I spelled wrong was such a huge thing in the 90’s. Folk loved it. Then, just like all the diets do it fell by the wayside.

[@undeadgentalmen]

Does any remember the old Saturday morning Mortal Kombat TV show? It's like that mixed bad graphics of 'Tatooed Teenager Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills.' LOL

[@Tareltonlives]

Phelous did a great series of videos on all the Mortal Kombat shows

[@TheDoctorD100]

I work at UTSC and watching this movie is freaking me out, I recognize everything

[@hiddentruth1982]

I've never seen a pistol that exploded holes in targets that big before.

[@professorBofFPU]

Wow, that video game adaptation looks terrible. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me it was THE WORST FIGHTING GAME. Anyway, great stuff. I love the Canuxploitation series.

[@ToHoldNothing]

Didn't notice until I actually paid attention to the opening: Abraxas Guardian of the Universe is in here. Which is doubly cool because 1) I own it on a double feature and 2) Didn't realize it's Canadian, mostly remember Jesse Ventura being one of the leads. And that It Came From Public Domain riffed on it

[@godmaentertainment4375]

I liked Abraxas Guardian of the Universe! The female lead was cute to!

[@ToHoldNothing]

@@godmaentertainment4375 It's an interesting concept, though the beginning is random, just throwing you into the concept running

[@scrollcaps]

Not even 2 minutes in, and i'm already yelling, "That's too much tongue, man!"

[@eoghanleinster]

Billy was great in king of the kickboxing love that movie 🎬

[@northernboy7272]

Have you ever seen Arena from 1989...good special effects.....corny jokes.....it's completely up your alley. You will adore it and finds a ton of material to riff on. One Canadian to another this would be an awesome movie for you to review

[@neonnwave1]

I gotta get my hands on a mp3 of that version of the Canadian anthem. It rocks so hard.

[@OldSchoolCurt]

This video was the shoot!

[@jaivonpyatt6905]

Apparently this movie somehow made Brandon Tenold eat his own words before he was gonna say it. By literally showing us that Expect no Mercy actually did had a video game tie in, who could've seen that comin'

[@marhawkman303]

The concept of the movie seems MADE for a game tie-in.