Saturday, December 27, 2014   Movie Review  No Mercy (1986)
December 19, 1986   Published: December 19, 1986  NO American
actor can match Richard Gere in making grandiose and often
unreasonable claims for himself with each new role. From ''King
David'' to the remake of ''Breathless,'' Mr. Gere has
consistently demonstrated more confidence in his own magnetism
than anyone else seems to feel. Yet there are times when the
perception of Mr. Gere as a tough-talking, quietly mesmerizing
figure, a man of keen and unpredictable longings, seems wholly
justified, and his latest film is one of them. ''No Mercy'' is a
passionate film noir that depends heavily upon Mr. Gere to give
it credence, and Mr. Gere delivers.  ''No Mercy,'' which opens
today at the Warner Twin and other theaters, casts the actor as
Eddie Jillette, a Chicago policeman, and throws him into as many
different settings and adventures as can be crammed into an hour
and three-quarters. He is seen, for instance, working at a car
wash, party-crashing at a