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3.9/10   401 votes
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Director:
Paul Lynch
Writer:
Robert C. Cooper (writer)
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Genre:
Action more
Tagline:
No rules. No mercy. No escape.
Plot:
A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang... more | add synopsis
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(9 articles)
'Tanked Girl' Lori Petty Pleads No Contest to DUI
 (From TMZ. 4 September 2009, 9:12 AM, PDT)
Our Brains Versus Fast Food? No Contest
 (From Fast Company. 21 July 2009, 3:00 PM, PDT)
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Could have been a great campy/corny action-flick, but falls short more (12 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Shannon Tweed ... Sharon Bell

Robert Davi ... Sergeant Crane

Andrew Dice Clay ... Oz, aka Raymond Ulysses Brice

Roddy Piper ... Ice
Nicholas Campbell ... Vic
John Colicos ... Senator Donald Wilson
James Purcell ... Captain Henricks

Judith Scott ... Nancy Polson
Louis Wrightman ... Que

Keram Malicki-Sánchez ... Cal
J.D. Nicholsen ... Zed (as Jack Nicholsen)

Polly Shannon ... Candice 'Candy' Wilson, Miss U.S.A.
Bridget Griggs ... Kellee White, Miss Canada

Kyrin Hall ... Nikki Westhill, Miss England

Chandra West ... Maria, Miss Germany
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Runtime:
93 min | USA:98 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Hungary:18 | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:18 | Germany:18 | UK:18 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Company:
Norstar Entertainment more

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Quotes:
Cal: Sharon Bell - she's like a Bruce Lee with boobs, man! more
Movie Connections:
Followed by No Contest II (1997) more

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Could have been a great campy/corny action-flick, but falls short, 11 October 2004
2/10
Author: Grann-Bach (Grann-Bach@jubii.dk) from Denmark

Just look at the cast for this film; Andrew Dice Clay as main villain, Robert Davi as mystical bodyguard, Roddy Piper as a henchmen... do I need to go on? Yes, the stage is definitely set for a cheesy, campy and thoroughly corny action-film... but it falls short. The dialog is cheesy, but not cheesy enough... there are too few one-liners, and some of them are a little lame as well(which they shouldn't be; they should be bad-ass and deadpan, instead they are tame and poorly delivered). The plot is pretty good, but it's too obvious a rip-off of Die Hard(arguably the best of this action sub-genre; the important-people-trapped-in-building-with-hero sub-genre) and the pacing is not very good. The film just doesn't have enough campy qualities to keep it entertaining, and you're left with mediocre action and poor one-liners. The acting isn't great, but that's, of course, not the point; this is clear for anyone who knows the names I dropped in the first line of this review. However, it's not good in it's own way, either. The characters are (purposefully, of course) clichés and stereotypes; however, they don't work as well as you'd expect, in a purposefully campy film... they just seem flat and empty. All in all, the only real reason for watching this film is if you're interested in seeing the failed experiment at making a campy action-flick that it is. It's fun to see the various B-list actors, recognizing them from either cameos from big productions(like Dice Clay in One Night At McCool's) or big roles in other small productions(like Piper in They Live) or even small roles from other small productions(like Davi in various flicks), but that's it. I recommend it only to big fans of campy movies, and/or of the actors. Otherwise, just skip this one. 2/10

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