Pam Grier, my heroine, has a walk through role here. I bet it didn't take two takes! Gary Daniels, a respectful action hero, is the lead. Regardless, it is a no brainer movie with no plot, no characters you coudld care for & minimal action. If you watched this, you wasted your time!
6 Reviews
An OK Gary Daniels with random action scenes featuring Master P
matthew-marks11 March 2007
First off I expected this to be a master P and Gary Daniels buddy cop thing but it didn't turn out that way at all. It was basically a mediocre gary daniels movie with all the clichés tacked on.
could have been so much better if say master P and gary Daniels were like cops or something but instead it felt like a 75 minute gary daniels movie and a 15 minute master P. His two action scenes one in the beginning and one an hour in were OK and funny. I liked his gold plated guns
It just didn't match and left me unsatisfied.
all in all the acting and plot are thin to say the least. the budget seemed to be good though considering everything and I feel like Master P spent a lot of money on this. Its a shame he didn't spend more time figuring out a decent movie plot line.
Gary Daniels doesn't use any martial arts in this movie sadly so if you like him for that stay away. just maybe stay away from this in general not very good at all
could have been so much better if say master P and gary Daniels were like cops or something but instead it felt like a 75 minute gary daniels movie and a 15 minute master P. His two action scenes one in the beginning and one an hour in were OK and funny. I liked his gold plated guns
It just didn't match and left me unsatisfied.
all in all the acting and plot are thin to say the least. the budget seemed to be good though considering everything and I feel like Master P spent a lot of money on this. Its a shame he didn't spend more time figuring out a decent movie plot line.
Gary Daniels doesn't use any martial arts in this movie sadly so if you like him for that stay away. just maybe stay away from this in general not very good at all
Despite the presences of some of our favorite names, and the backing of a great company, No Tomorrow is a disappointment.
tarbosh2200012 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Jason (Daniels) is a likable (of course) London transplant trying to make ends meet in L.A. as he chases the American Dream. Jason is a card-carrying member of his local video store and loves nothing more than to play Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park pinball at his local dive bar. His gregarious co-worker Davis (Fahey) charms him into getting involved with crime boss Noah (Busey), but Jason really doesn't want to be a criminal. However, Noah takes a shine to Jason. It turns out that fellow criminal Maker (P) is after Noah, as is an FBI Agent named Diane (Grier). In the midst of all this chaos, Jason and Lara (Wise) forge a relationship. Will the hapless Jason walk away with his life, or for him will there be...NO TOMORROW?
As one of the final films produced by PM, No Tomorrow signaled the death knell for one of our favorite companies. The title proved to be more apt than perhaps even they realized.
If there was ever any last-ditch attempt to save the company from impending doom, handing the directorial reins over to Master P for this movie would seem to indicate that their hearts just weren't in it anymore. You'd think a DTV outing with all these classic B-movie stars couldn't lose, but it's just another case of Lone Tiger Effect. The fact that footage was recycled from Narrow Margin (1990) and Air America (1990) just reinforces the "Now it's 1999 and DTV is in the doldrums" vibe.
Yet, because it's still PM after all, the stuntwork, action, gunfights, pyro, and blow-ups are still excellent. The technicians behind making all this amazing stuff happen should be applauded for making it all look great on-screen. The problem is that the movie around it is a dud. It's completely uneven; one minute Master P has some sort of combination flamethrower/missile launcher and is barbecuing everything in sight, then there are some extended dialogue scenes, then we're in Master P's recording studio watching Silkk Tha Shocker AND C-Murder lay down some tracks (all while wearing No Limit clothing, of course), then Pam Grier sits in an FBI control room for a while, and then we get some recycled footage, etc., etc. There no continuity, structure, or pacing, never mind a Tomorrow.
We're of two minds about Gary Daniels's role in all this. One the one hand, yes, of course we want to see him do Martial Arts, which is missing from this performance. It's hard to not see that as a missed opportunity. On the other hand, we kind of liked that he was cast against type as a humble pencil-pusher. In other casting observations, we liked Fahey's freewheeling, smarmy performance - he probably figured he didn't have a lot to lose here, so he hammed it up. It was pretty Charlie Sheen-esque.
Things perked up whenever Gary Busey was on screen. As usual, he brought a lot of crazy life to the scenes he was in. He even makes it a point to say that Maker produces, and we quote, "jungle music". Fan favorite Frank Zagarino has a glorified cameo (Jerry Vale of all people has an actual cameo), and Master (thespian) P gives a mumbling, inarticulate performance, but in all fairness he did have to talk around his gold grill. It probably gave him problems, but is this guy supposed to be the hero of the movie? It's impossible to tell. Needless to say, there's a crazy twist at the end that turns all the nonsense we've heretofore seen on its head, as if that was necessary.
Yes, it's all very junky and a fairly ignominious end to the once-fine PM organization. Even Hot Boyz (2000) is better than this. Sadly, even the classic exploding helicopter had to come from the aforementioned Narrow Margin footage. Jeff Fahey and Gary Daniels should've been cops who team up to bust some heads. It could have been like the classic years of PM and really cool. Instead, they came up with this muddled jumble of Homie Movie/drama/thriller/DTV actioner and it doesn't really work.
Despite the presences of some of our favorite names, and the backing of a great company, No Tomorrow is a disappointment.
As one of the final films produced by PM, No Tomorrow signaled the death knell for one of our favorite companies. The title proved to be more apt than perhaps even they realized.
If there was ever any last-ditch attempt to save the company from impending doom, handing the directorial reins over to Master P for this movie would seem to indicate that their hearts just weren't in it anymore. You'd think a DTV outing with all these classic B-movie stars couldn't lose, but it's just another case of Lone Tiger Effect. The fact that footage was recycled from Narrow Margin (1990) and Air America (1990) just reinforces the "Now it's 1999 and DTV is in the doldrums" vibe.
Yet, because it's still PM after all, the stuntwork, action, gunfights, pyro, and blow-ups are still excellent. The technicians behind making all this amazing stuff happen should be applauded for making it all look great on-screen. The problem is that the movie around it is a dud. It's completely uneven; one minute Master P has some sort of combination flamethrower/missile launcher and is barbecuing everything in sight, then there are some extended dialogue scenes, then we're in Master P's recording studio watching Silkk Tha Shocker AND C-Murder lay down some tracks (all while wearing No Limit clothing, of course), then Pam Grier sits in an FBI control room for a while, and then we get some recycled footage, etc., etc. There no continuity, structure, or pacing, never mind a Tomorrow.
We're of two minds about Gary Daniels's role in all this. One the one hand, yes, of course we want to see him do Martial Arts, which is missing from this performance. It's hard to not see that as a missed opportunity. On the other hand, we kind of liked that he was cast against type as a humble pencil-pusher. In other casting observations, we liked Fahey's freewheeling, smarmy performance - he probably figured he didn't have a lot to lose here, so he hammed it up. It was pretty Charlie Sheen-esque.
Things perked up whenever Gary Busey was on screen. As usual, he brought a lot of crazy life to the scenes he was in. He even makes it a point to say that Maker produces, and we quote, "jungle music". Fan favorite Frank Zagarino has a glorified cameo (Jerry Vale of all people has an actual cameo), and Master (thespian) P gives a mumbling, inarticulate performance, but in all fairness he did have to talk around his gold grill. It probably gave him problems, but is this guy supposed to be the hero of the movie? It's impossible to tell. Needless to say, there's a crazy twist at the end that turns all the nonsense we've heretofore seen on its head, as if that was necessary.
Yes, it's all very junky and a fairly ignominious end to the once-fine PM organization. Even Hot Boyz (2000) is better than this. Sadly, even the classic exploding helicopter had to come from the aforementioned Narrow Margin footage. Jeff Fahey and Gary Daniels should've been cops who team up to bust some heads. It could have been like the classic years of PM and really cool. Instead, they came up with this muddled jumble of Homie Movie/drama/thriller/DTV actioner and it doesn't really work.
Despite the presences of some of our favorite names, and the backing of a great company, No Tomorrow is a disappointment.
A sub-par effort by PM Entertainment
Wizard-831 March 2011
You might think that a B movie with Gary Busey, Jeff Fahey, Gary Daniels, and Pam Grier in its cast, as well as the fact that it was a co-production with PM Entertainment, which made classic B movies like RAGE and THE SWEEPER, that the end results would be pretty entertaining. Sadly, the movie ends up being somewhat underwhelming. A co-production with the hip hop film production unit No Limit, the mix between hip-hop elements and standard B movie going-ons is awkward. In fact, the hip hop elements just appear at the beginning, then in the middle, then at the end. Those into rap will be disappointed. As for those expecting typical B movie stuff will be disappointed as well. Some of the action isn't bad, though there's one action sequence that uses extensive footage from the Gene Hackman movie NARROW MARGIN. (And the end action sequence seems to use footage from AIR America.) And martial arts star Gary Daniels doesn't use his martial art skills once! Production values are generally good, but the script is frequently boring, wasting Grier and Fahey. The movie seems to have been designed to appeal to as big an audience as possible, but ends up pleasing no one.
A fun, slick if recylced outing. UNDERRATED
rettercritical13 July 2022
Reading reviews on IMDB, I felt it was important to correct the record. "No Tomorrow" is a good looking movie, helped by cannibalising existing films such as NARROW MARGIN and AIR AMERICA into something new. Jean-Luc Godard said that "Good artists borrow but great artists steal", so where do cannibals fit into that? In this case it ends up being an almost Hollywood-level-slick B-movie by PM Entertainment.
Fantastic cast assembled, even if not all appearing for long ... This is an exercise in pure cinema, about cinema itself and a joy to watch go through the well-worn platonic forms. And these stars really are used to their full pigment on that canvas. Gary Busey is crazy, Jeff Fahey is quirky eccentric, Gary Daniels earnestness is used as a weapon, Coffee Brown is Coffee Brown working in an FBI office, George Cheung comes and goes in the blink of an eye but reassures us that this is a real movie with his presence. Hip hop artist and producer Master P bookends the film for scenes where the sh** truly goes down.
Did rapper Master P actually direct this? Or was it in his contract to be credited because half of it was funded by hip-hop money? It has everything you want from a latter-period PM film stylistically, such as gorgeous long lens cinematography by Ken Blakey and trademark expressionistic explosions. Theres a moment early in the film where someone is hit by a rocket-launcher, propelling and impaling him against a wall, followed by a PM explosion. This was shot at night to show great contrast between the rocket-launchers, flame throwers, sparks and explosions in the dark space. Whatever Master P did, there was a well-oiled technical machine working under him.
Gary Daniels does no martial arts in this, yet its a good action film becuase it keeps moving with plenty of cool sequences both new and recycled. Daniels is an interesting cinematic construct who struggles dramatically on a technical level, but this has its own pathos and we root for him.
Yes, No Tomorrow literally takes a few action scenes from existing films and splices them in .. But like what Comeuppance Reviews (go to their website..) would describe as "Plane Slogs" (fighter-pilot movies that use stock aerial footage), I can admire a film's construction when these scenes are inserted seamlessly and support the film's overall structure. Thats why I say these kinds of movies are about cinema .. Like early Soviet works that took German and American films and just re-edited them .. Thus I would say its a film for film-buffs and filmmakers too. Its like that meme that shows the IQ distribution bell-curve .. With a genius on one side, an idiot on the other but a middle-brow person in the center who takes up the majority of the curve. This film is for the idiots and geniuses, but not the boring middle-brow person who thinks they are smart by scoffing at the obvious.
And no, its not a film where you have to leave your brain at the door, instead use your noggin to dissect how it was produced .. And on a visceral level, with its cool action and vibe .. Its actually well made within those constraints and totally enjoyable. Its a corporate gangster film with great intrigue until the credits roll. You will often find films that re-use footage having pretty good writing and structure, because they need to have a sense of precision to make the collision work. If you didn't realise this film had recycled footage, you would just view it as a slick, entertaining product, which was surprising to see having premiered on video. Either way its enjoyable. This is PM Entertainment competing with Hollywood in spectacle and aesthetic, just as they would fly too close to the sun.
Fantastic cast assembled, even if not all appearing for long ... This is an exercise in pure cinema, about cinema itself and a joy to watch go through the well-worn platonic forms. And these stars really are used to their full pigment on that canvas. Gary Busey is crazy, Jeff Fahey is quirky eccentric, Gary Daniels earnestness is used as a weapon, Coffee Brown is Coffee Brown working in an FBI office, George Cheung comes and goes in the blink of an eye but reassures us that this is a real movie with his presence. Hip hop artist and producer Master P bookends the film for scenes where the sh** truly goes down.
Did rapper Master P actually direct this? Or was it in his contract to be credited because half of it was funded by hip-hop money? It has everything you want from a latter-period PM film stylistically, such as gorgeous long lens cinematography by Ken Blakey and trademark expressionistic explosions. Theres a moment early in the film where someone is hit by a rocket-launcher, propelling and impaling him against a wall, followed by a PM explosion. This was shot at night to show great contrast between the rocket-launchers, flame throwers, sparks and explosions in the dark space. Whatever Master P did, there was a well-oiled technical machine working under him.
Gary Daniels does no martial arts in this, yet its a good action film becuase it keeps moving with plenty of cool sequences both new and recycled. Daniels is an interesting cinematic construct who struggles dramatically on a technical level, but this has its own pathos and we root for him.
Yes, No Tomorrow literally takes a few action scenes from existing films and splices them in .. But like what Comeuppance Reviews (go to their website..) would describe as "Plane Slogs" (fighter-pilot movies that use stock aerial footage), I can admire a film's construction when these scenes are inserted seamlessly and support the film's overall structure. Thats why I say these kinds of movies are about cinema .. Like early Soviet works that took German and American films and just re-edited them .. Thus I would say its a film for film-buffs and filmmakers too. Its like that meme that shows the IQ distribution bell-curve .. With a genius on one side, an idiot on the other but a middle-brow person in the center who takes up the majority of the curve. This film is for the idiots and geniuses, but not the boring middle-brow person who thinks they are smart by scoffing at the obvious.
And no, its not a film where you have to leave your brain at the door, instead use your noggin to dissect how it was produced .. And on a visceral level, with its cool action and vibe .. Its actually well made within those constraints and totally enjoyable. Its a corporate gangster film with great intrigue until the credits roll. You will often find films that re-use footage having pretty good writing and structure, because they need to have a sense of precision to make the collision work. If you didn't realise this film had recycled footage, you would just view it as a slick, entertaining product, which was surprising to see having premiered on video. Either way its enjoyable. This is PM Entertainment competing with Hollywood in spectacle and aesthetic, just as they would fly too close to the sun.
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