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

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 [email protected] for more movies list and recommendations and why not have a chat as well?Have a NICE day.

ZERO TOLERANCE was a recent "bargain bin" DVD purchase and in all honesty I threw it into the player this weekend as an antidote after watching "World Trade Center," figuring that after watching such a heavy-duty drama I needed to see something empty-headed as a chaser. In that regard, ZERO TOLERANCE didn't disappoint. It's a by-the-numbers revenge fantasy whose "plot" (scumbag drug dealers kill an FBI agent's family, so he goes rogue and hunts them down one by one) was probably written on a cocktail napkin, but there's so much wall to wall violence, carnage, and gunfire going off during its short running time that you barely have time to notice how silly the whole thing is. Robert Patrick of "Terminator 2" fame plays our FBI hero, who racks up some pretty impressive frequent flyer miles as he criss crosses the country picking off the heads of the "White Hand" drug cartel in Las Vegas, in New Orleans, and all points in between. My wife and I found it extremely funny after a while that there are dozens and dozens of goons firing thousands of rounds of ammunition at our hero throughout this movie and none of them even come close to hitting him, meanwhile Patrick can pop up from his hiding spots with two nine-millimeters clutched in his hands, fire off two shots at a time, and yet he hits his target every time. I didn't bother to try and keep a body count for this movie but I'm sure the grand total must've been astronomical. Nothing here hasn't already been done before in countless other shoot-em-up action movies like the "Death Wish" or "Punisher" films (to name but a few) but it sure is a fun ride while it's playing! If you find "Zero Tolerance" for less than five bucks (like I did) then by all means, take the ride.

This came on television the other day and I decided to watch it. I like Robert Patrick a lot, but I knew nothing about this movie going in. When I saw the credits, I was delighted to see it was made by PM Entertainment. I think PM makes some pretty fine action movies, much better than most of the big studio productions we are fed each and every year, I mean, who could possibly not think `Firetrap' was an awesome movie? Anyway, the only PM movie I thought was bad was `No Escape No Return' (which I coincidentally watched last week), so I was sure I would like `Zero Tolerance.' And I was right. Joseph Merhi takes an otherwise standard plotline and makes it interesting, something that PM does best. Merhi takes an uncomfortably brutal scene early in the movie and makes it something more by cutting to other characters throughout it, fitting the dialogue in perfectly in contrast to the brutal scene happening many miles away. There's not much more I can add to the plot that other people here haven't done so already, so I will skip that part. I will say that I thought Patrick was really wonderful as an FBI agent on the edge after a drug cartel assassinates his family. He brought some fine emotion into the part; the only time he has done better is in his 1996 film `Asylum,' one of my personal favorite movies. Kristen Meadows was good, too. I loved the scenes with her father, who doesn't understand why she has to keep taking off on some assignment during the worst of hours. The father is a nice little touch that you won't find in most action movies. As for the villains, I got a big kick out of seeing Mick Fleetwood play the head of the cartel. He was surprisingly good, as was Miles O'Keefe, playing another of the cartel's big chiefs. O'Keefe's good job is a real treat. I also liked the brief part of Bill Hufsey, as Omar, a wisecracking thug whose biggest joke I am going to have to use one someone someday. The trouble with these great villains is that they aren't given much screen time. Instead, the villain that most screen time is Titus Welliver, the thug responsible for Patrick's grief. Welliver spouts out foul language and consistently points the blame of the mishaps on other people. He gets so annoying that I just wanted Patrick to hurry up and snub him out. Instead, the best villains are taken out too early or in the wrong way. Welliver alone makes the movie less enjoyable than what it should have been. That's not saying the rest of the movie is 100% perfect, either, because I did not like the last scene. *MINOR SPOILER* Aside from the vanishing handcuffs, the scene is bad in that it killed the prevailing theme of the whole movie, that Patrick has to let it all go and let the system take its course. Merhi must have thought that viewers would rather see raw justice. Well, there were ways of doing both (which could have involved one of the other villains). Anyhow, I say this is another winner from PM Entertainment. Just give this movie (as well as other action movies from PM) a chance and you might find yourself engrossed in it. You may even take up my mode of thinking in that PM is a better choice than similar films from the big studios. Zantara's score: 7 out of 10.