No Man's Land
No Man's Land
R | 23 October 1987 (USA)
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A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.

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SpunkySelfTwitter

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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FirstWitch

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Derry Herrera

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

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Dana

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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No Man's Land is like Point Break with cars, where D.B. Sweeney (where you can just picture Paul Walker in this role, check out the matching hairstyle) plays an undercover cop, out to pinpoint the killer hand, responsible for gunning down a detective, who was obviously undercover himself. Operating out of an auto repair shop, a front, Sweeney's character is also an ace mechanic. Fancy that? No, that's why he was chosen, but also being a rookie, he, as his hardarse cop boss (Quaid) says "doesn't act like a cop, but act is something Sweeney does well. It's a pity we didn't see more of him, in stuff, as only a score of films he did, spring to mind. He's befriended by cool dressing, rich kid/thief, Ted Varrick (Sheen) who's hot Porsche breaks down on Mulholland, and from here, it's like another Point Break scenario (this came out three and a half years earlier, but who's counting). Sheen really impresses here, with just the right measure of cool and suave cockiness. This actor, despite his bad habits, can really surprise you. He did with me, after coming to view it again. He owns thw role, and works it wonderfully. Of course, there's rival competitor thieves that push the story forward, where we seem to have a few bad apple cops around. Lara Harris as Sheen's sister who doesn't know of his illegal doings, and who apparently can whip out killer crepes, is just a utterly gorgeous picture of beauty. This is one of those real cool movie treats I like, but it's not without it's faults, and I feel that, every time I see it. For instance, revenge driven Sheen, can apparently take out a rival competitor on a dance floor with strobing lights, and no one notices, not even the competitor's much younger date. They just keep dancing. Fault. But this is a movie, you can forgive these kind of things. There's some good chases, and a humbly tragic climax, a shootout, that is inevitable, where at the end, we aren't quite sure if Quaid's character was dirty. Ironically both him and Sheen did another car movie, The Wraith, exactly nine months earlier, on release date here, this of course a better movie. Too, we learn a lot about our three characters, Sheen, I almost feel sorry for. Him and Sweeney, it's a mutual friendship, you don't want to end. For some reason, a thinner George Dzundza, appears unbilled as Sweeney's Uncle. Seriously though, Sweeney needs to change professions, regarding car stealing, and stop hesitating for one here. Cool hip movie, with well utilized locations, one of course, used so many times in night shots. One surprising attribute: Sheen's top geared performance, and a wonderful line including following dialogue, "lifestyles of the rich and aimless".

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jaylenoh

Awesome movie that I waited for years to see again. The best thing about it is the cars and chase scenes. The idea of doing what they got away with is fun, too. What better choice than to steal 911's right? My favorite scene, by far, is the one that has the Camaro (a piece) running after the Porsche (a real car). They come to a point where they have to turn right, and merge into traffic. The Porsche gets sideways, and slides right into a gap without skipping a beat. This shows the handling capabilities of that car, and the angle filmed is great. Needless to say, the Camaro takes a spill trying to do this behind him. I look past any lame typical parts, but I HATE the way we're always preached to with the bad guy ALWAYS LOSING IN THE END.(This isn't so in 'The Usual Suspects').

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mm-39

This guy is before his time. The Russian mob must of seen this movie. Charlie Sheen is the scum bag in this movie. He does a great role. If you like cars then you will like this movie as it has a lot of different cars in it. This guy knew how to make money, but it catches up to him. 6/10

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dragon13xgs

Yes its from the 80s, half of the movies were just as bad during the decade, especially cheesy teen flicks and horror but this movie's not so bad to look at. If the plot happens to be a bomb then I guess the hot Porsches make up for it, they are definitely not to be missed. Some of the chase scenes are downright silly, I mean be real, an old 70's American iron (unless a muscle car) would not keep up with a Porsche, no sir! Anyways, pretty okay 80s flick, slow at times but got to love them Porsches. 6 out 10.

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